Re: Advise to Journalists

2003-02-03 Thread john hull
-- George Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "I found the article in the Economist, March 31, 2001, pp. 20-22 stressing the relationship of poverty and lack of property rights (a short but neat summary of De Soto's thesis in his new book The Mystery of Capital) to be very useful. Good luck." I alw

Re: Questions about the stagflation episode...

2003-02-03 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, William Dickens wrote: > That is not what I meant. Of course there is. Its thermodynamics. > However, to an outsider it looks to impose about as much structure on > weather modeling as the notion of general equilibrium imposes on > macro-modeling - - that is that the devil is i

Re: Advise to Journalists: keep it real!

2003-02-03 Thread AdmrlLocke

Re: Advise to Journalists: keep it real!

2003-02-03 Thread Fred Foldvary
--- Alex Tabarrok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will be giving a 15-20 minute talk to a bunch of journalists and > proto-journalists ( most of them are editors of student university > newspapers) about what economics has to offer journalism. I am > interested in the suggestions of list members

Re: Questions about the stagflation episode...

2003-02-03 Thread Fred Foldvary
> Also, almost all the profession > will now also agree that ... a large fraction of what > we call business cycles are the natural responses of an economy to real > shocks. > Alex Would that fraction include the downturn that followed the 1990s techno-boom, the recession having begun b

RE: Questions about the stagflation episode...

2003-02-03 Thread Fred Foldvary
--- Grey Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First off, if "macro" is at all close to a "science", > there should be near unanimity, among macro "experts", Is there unanimity among anthropologists and biologists and physicists and medical researchers? Fred Foldvary = [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Advise to Journalists

2003-02-03 Thread George Berger
Alex, I found the article in the Economist, March 31, 2001 , pp. 20-22 stressing the relationship of poverty and lack of property rights (a short but neat summary of De Soto's thesis in his new book The Mystery of Capital) to be very useful. Good luck. George Berger Alex Tabarrok wrote: > I wi

Re: Questions about the stagflation episode...

2003-02-03 Thread William Dickens
>I'm actually not a Kuhnian on these issues, but I am trying to see how far >Kuhn's theory goes in accurately describing economic research. Is it >really true that there aren't reigning paradigms in meteorology? That is not what I meant. Of course there is. Its thermodynamics. However, to an outs

Re: Advise to Journalists

2003-02-03 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 2/3/03 4:36:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Alex Tabarrok wrote: > > I am interested in the suggestions of list members as to > > what the most important lessons economics has to teach. > >This essay might be useful >http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=

Re: Advise to Journalists

2003-02-03 Thread Chris Rasch
Hi, Some concepts I think that it would be useful for reporters to know: "broken windows" fallacy. Wars don't create jobs on net--war-related jobs supplants jobs that would've been created by providing non-war related goods/services. "seen vs. unseen" How FDA regulations actually harm health

Re: Advise to Journalists

2003-02-03 Thread Anton Sherwood
Alex Tabarrok wrote: > I am interested in the suggestions of list members as to > what the most important lessons economics has to teach. This essay might be useful http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-013003A -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/

RE: Questions about the stagflation episode... & Advice to journalists

2003-02-03 Thread Grey Thomas
First off, if "macro" is at all close to a "science", there should be near unanimity, among macro "experts", on exactly: why did the dot.com bubble keep growing, even after Greenspan's 1997 (?) irrational exuberance comments? Why did Argentina turn into such a mess? I don't think there is agreem