In a message dated 4/8/2004 3:34:39 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Question: If there were free migration between the U.S. and Canada,would Canada lose a lot of population to California, Florida, and othermore desirable locations?In fact we might expand the rationale to
The standard economic response to your argument, I believe, would be that if this were a good idea, so many people would already have borrowedand investedthat the lending rates would rise until it was no longer profitable to do what you suggest. The implication is that at the moment, the market
It might be worth adding to this discussion that Skeptical Inquirer's
objective is to call attention to claims of dubious scientific merit so that
they can be given further scrutiny. My reading of the article in question is
not that it is attacking the methods of econometrics, but rather
People often make impulse purchases at the supermarket as they proceed
through checkout without knowing the price. Indeed, the price is usually not
even marked. I suspect, however, that the explanation is different from the
one I'd employ to explain the phenomenon you describe. Impulse buys
With regard to Mr. Dickens' comment regarding whether stress should cause
sexual arousal, I am tempted to think that evolutionary psychology can
certainly explain this phenomenon. Early societies, according to most models
of human development, used the males as hunters and warriors;
My understanding of economic rationality is that people act rationally to
maximize what they perceive to be their utility. Thus a forbidden fruit
hypothesis makes sense if and only if people believe they derive utility from
doing something which society at large finds unacceptable, by virtue
