Howdy,
Let me apologize in advance for this letter being too
long.
With all due respect, I think I may be disagreeing
with Mr. Foldarvy. First, I think his list may be too
ambitious for a high school class. Second, I really
think that your efforts should be toward making
economics interesting
Fred Foldvary wrote:
> > universities are maximizing something, but it's not clear what.
>
>Could it be that such universities seek to maximize prestige, or academic
>esteem? Thus, the original seed of
>good and useful research grows into a tree where the fruit becomes an end in
>itself and
> What would you recommend, a course that shows economics
> concisely (and thus covering more topic) or showing it light (with just the
> core economic concepts like supply, demand, cost, utility... etc; less
> topic but more fun into it)? Similarly, what could be the topics that would
> be taug
On 6/21/02 Peter J Boettke wrote:
>I don't think that either of you has dealt with McCloskey's kelly green golf
>shoes criticism of economics. Why be so complacent about the consumer
>preferences currently expressed in the market?
I think all we've said is that in a competitive industry where en
An interesting sort of adverse selection, it
seems:
http://launch.yahoo.com/read/news.asp?contentID=209387
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