On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Jason DeBacker wrote:
> Is it not possible that there is some common goods problem? People not
> helping b/c they think others will? The general welfare of others is a
> public good afterall, right?- (non-rival, non-excludable)
Exceedingly implausible in the Africa case. On
Suppose I have some money that I don't want to spend, and I'm sure I'll
never want to spend it. Should I give it to charity now, or put it in an
index fund and bequeath it to charity in my will?
Here's my argument in favor of charitable procrastination. The typical
recipient of charity does not ha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This reminds me of an old Monty Python sketch
Here, I found the script:
[...] Well your first question for the blow on the head this evening is:
what great opponent of Cartesian dualism resists the reduction of
psychological phenomena to physical states?
I don't know
This reminds me of an old Monty Python sketch that had a line in which the
game-show host offered the contestant a choice:
"Would you like the nice gift package, or a hit on the head?"
To which the game-show contestant replied:
"Ah, I'll take the hit on the head!" (or "I'll take the 'it on the
Is it not possible that there is some common goods problem? People not
helping b/c they think others will? The general welfare of others is a
public good afterall, right?- (non-rival, non-excludable)
I think it is reasonable to say that there is not an efficient level of
charity (at least in the
> -Original Message-
> From: Wei Dai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Why does TV have seasons? I know it's customary to propose possible
> answers to questions posted here, but I'm really stumped. I
> can't think of
> any reason why television networks all premier their new shows in the
Wei Dai asked:
>Why does TV have seasons? I know it's customary to propose possible
>answers to questions posted here, but I'm really stumped. I can't think
>of any reason why television networks all premier their new shows in
>the fall and play re-runs in the summer, instead of spreading out th
Eric has me as being nicer than I actually am. I would give up a leg to
cure AIDS. For SARS I would take a kick in the leg.
Alex
--
Alexander Tabarrok
Department of Economics, MSN 1D3
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA, 22030
Tel. 703-993-2314
Web Page: http://mason.gmu.edu/~atabarro/
Jason DeBacker wrote:
And the answer is:
- People really don’t care about helping someone else, but
are ashamed to admit that.
How could it be anything else?
--
Prof. Bryan Caplan
Department of Economics George Mason University
http://www.bcaplan.com
I was somewhat wrong in my previous email about Bill Gates and Malaria. What
I actually read was this:
More public money should
also be spent on the search for new treatments, to tackle drug-resistant strains
of the disease, and to find a vaccine. The latter quest depends far too much
on a sin
Wei Dai asked:
Why does TV have seasons? I know it's customary to propose possible
answers to questions posted here, but I'm really stumped. I can't think of
any reason why television networks all premier their new shows in the
fall and play re-runs in the summer, instead of spreading out the premi
I think this is like example from economics textbooks:
a) We have common goods problem. Even if you will not help save these
child's, may be someone else will. You cannot help everybody. Of course
this is for usual people, not superrich. For example, I heard something
like Bill Gates paying for
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Jason DeBacker wrote:
> -- I listed as one possibility that people are ashamed to
> admit their preferences. I feel the same way as you do, but
> I am not sure all people think like that. Some probably
> actually care about saving lives instead of having HBO, but
> for so
--- Wei Dai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the broadcast spectrum currently used
> for television may be worth as much as $400 billion in an auction. How
> are the 15% of households who still watch TV over the air able to prevent
> this spectrum from being sold for another use?
They should not be ab
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