Maybe the average G movie makes three times as much as the average R movie.
I wonder if we need to think about this on the margin. If a studio makes one
more G movie, it might bring in less than the next R movie. I really don't
know.
And some directors might only be able to make good R movie
As Ananda notes there are hundreds of PG movies, so I don't think Ebert
is correct. DeVany and Wallis's paper is available on DeVany's web page
http://aris.ss.uci.edu/mbs/personnel/devany/devany.html
Alex
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Dr. Alexander Tabarrok
Vice President and Director of Research
The Independent Institu
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Bryan Caplan wrote:
> > Where would the supply-side effect
> > come from?
>
> Just because the world supply is fixed, does not mean that one country
> can't reduce after-tax prices by cutting taxes. Inelastically supplied
> to the world, elastically supplied to individual
Ed Dodson responding...
I wrote:.
>In Britain, factory owners imported labor from Ireland to prevent labor
from
>effectively organizing and to keep wages down to subsistence levels.
David Friedman asks:
What dates are you thinking of? As best I recall
from Ashton, real
wages were rising from abou
fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
So it's not that G movies aren't profitable - it's
that you have
one superior firm and other studios go into other kinds of
movies.
-fabio
That may be, but NB Medved is talking about not just cartoon G-rated movies
but G's and PG's (and the latter outnumber the former
> Medved has previously argued in his 1992 book:
> "the typical "PG" film generates nearly three times the revenue of the
> typical R" bloodbath or shocker, then the industry's insistence on
> cranking out more than four times as many "R" titles must be seen as an
> irrational and irresponsible h
At 9:50 AM -0400 9/18/00, Edward Dodson wrote:
>Ed Dodson responding...
>Chirag Kasbekar wrote:
...
>In Britain, factory owners imported labor from Ireland to prevent labor from
>effectively organizing and to keep wages down to subsistence levels.
What dates are you thinking of? As best I recal
In today's Wall Street Journal, Michael Medved claims that Al Gore's
latest crusade against Hollywood poses no threat to the First
Amendment, because Gore isn't serious about regulating and is taking huge
campaign contributions from Hollywood. But what does the theory of
regulation say about this
i wonder how long
i would have to wait!
i
suppose dealers don't need to offer addicts loyalty
incentives.
still seems to me strange, given the supposed cost of
acquiring new customers on the internet and the ease of transfer (though to be
fair, i haven't switched even without loyalty stuff
Imagine a random person is to be chosen, and you get two choices:
1) Let that person have one "wish" (where standard restrictions
apply, e.g., no wishing for more wishes).
2) Not let that person have the wish.
If you grant the wish you can see the person who gets it and what
they do with it, b
Ed Dodson responding...
Chirag Kasbekar wrote:
> An American political philosopher friend of mine was wondering how market
> practices and institutions would have been affected had economic, cultural
> and political conditions been slightly different during the Industrial
> Revolution in Britain.
Seiji
wrote…
but it does
seem a bit strange they don't focus more on keeping customers with a solid
record of purchasing. (i spend about $100 a month at Amazon).
Maybe you
should stop using Amazon for while and see if they send you any
"loyalty" incentives in response.
Barnes&N
It would seem that the effectiveness of advertising dollars on the internet
can be much more easily correlated to the response generated and might
effect the advertising done on the internet in the long run. As a contrast
a magazine can advertise the number of subscribers and price its adds
accor
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