Re: Questions about the stagflation episode...

2003-02-04 Thread Bob Steinke
On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 04:55 PM, Fred Foldvary wrote: --- 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 me

RE: Lott

2003-02-04 Thread Grey Thomas
Thanks for the link about Slate, but there is something fairly annoying. Lott claims: " >> In 98 percent of the cases, such polls show, people simply brandish the weapon to stop an attack.<<" Tim Noah, disputes this, yet also FAILS to say what the polls do show. "But polls by the Los Angeles Ti

Re: Lott

2003-02-04 Thread William Sjostrom
Two last comments on the Lott business. First, there is a reasonably good summary by Tim Noah in Slate, http://slate.msn.com/id/2078084/ Second, a private email pointed out that in my deeply cynical post on Lott, my reference to the Lott discussion was about the whole dispute, much of it on web l

GDP stats

2003-02-04 Thread Koushik Sekhar
Hi,   I have a query/problem about China's stats and with all the stats that come out during Bull/"expansionary" phases of any economy. This was one of the phenomenons explained by John Kenneth Galbraith using the US as an example.    It goes as follows. If I give you a loan /invest  which

Re: Advise to Journalists

2003-02-04 Thread Anton Sherwood
john hull wrote: BTW, the person who called De Soto's book an "intellectual swindle" gave it three stars. Joe Bob Briggs seems to give every movie three stars. -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/