Re: Quantity/Bulk discounts

2002-07-17 Thread Ole J. Rogeberg
Hi, I have now had opportunity to go through your mail thoroughly, and I would just like to say thank you. I'm trying to flesh out an idea for a further function bulk discounts may serve in illegal markets, and I really appreciate your help. Your mail was most useful. Ole At 21:37

Re: mathematical assumptions

2002-02-12 Thread Ole J. Rogeberg
I can give you a completely opposite reference :-) Philip Mirowski, in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, nr. 8, 1984, pp. 361-379 has an article Physics and the marginalist revolution, where he argues that the similarities between the physics of the 1800s and the economics of the 20th

Re: Spam: Legal, economic or technical problem?

2002-01-27 Thread Ole J. Rogeberg
A problem with Fred's solution is that the most obnoxious spammers would probably set their field to the non-spam when they sent out spam, in order to increase the probability that it would be read. This would be similar to spammers using subject-fields such as Re: Hello and In answer to your

Re: books

2001-12-12 Thread Ole J. Rogeberg
A book that really blew me away when I read it was Hayek's Fatal Conceit. I was disappointed by the road to serfdom and didn't have high expectations for fatal conceit, but the scope of the theory and sheer fun of the huge ideas involved made it a great read. This is some years ago, and I don't

RE: upward sloping demand curves

2000-09-27 Thread Ole J. Rogeberg
e. As long as the market price is held constant, the "price people in general face", if you like, then an individual consumer will have a downward sloping demand curve, since only the price (and not the good) will vary. Ole J. Rogeberg