RE: Economics of rank vs. Economics of the most money

2002-02-20 Thread Eric M. McDaniel
Eric wrote: Since the amount of money in the economy here was fixed, paying 2 to 25 cents to reduce another person's wealth by one dollar sounds like a pretty good investment decision to me, in effect raising one's own wealth by between 75 and 98 cents. Is this right?

RE: Photographers

2002-01-24 Thread Eric M. McDaniel
. Sadly, my own experience with my wedding photographer provides anecdotal evidence for Mark Steckbeck's theory that photographers who sell their negatives might do so to compensate for the inferior quality of their photographs compared to photographers who won't sell their negatives. Eric M

Re: books

2001-12-10 Thread Eric M. McDaniel
Perhaps cliche, but in a similar law and econ vein, but not quite as technical as Posner, try Richard Epstein, _Simple Rules for a Complex World_. Or the first volume of Buchanan's collected works from Liberty Fund (for those of us, like me, who cannot make it through more technical pieces of