Ed Dodson responding...
jim horsman wrote:
fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
It is very easy to imagine different tax schemes which
satisfy different ethical and economic constraints:
flat taxes, progressive, regressive, voluntary, etc.
Does anybody know if work has been done on what
Ed Dodson responding...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I cannot add to Mr. Dodson's concise outline of the regulatory and disclosure
hurdles that are intrinsicly part of a real estate transaction. To suggest that the
seller "anticipates" no gains to trade (with respect to contract terms) is only
Ed Dodson responding...
Alexander Tabarrok wrote:
I am giving a talk today in which I point out that virtually every
moral theory implies open borders are moral and immigration controls
immoral. ... Yet, ... the
implications are clearly not accepted by most people - or at least most
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
Ed Dodson responding...
John Samples wrote:
... complainers evaluate
themselves according to their (self ascribed) "merit". Labor markets, on the
other hand, evaluate them according to their value to others. Which
evaluation should we trust? Someone who is the judge in their own case or an
Ed Dodson resonding to a message from mid-September...
Erik Burns wrote:
i suspect the concept of borders is more about keeping people in than
keeping people out. keeping people out is just the more common consideration
at present. Europe, that most xenophobic of places, is now starting to
Ed Dodson responding...
Daljit Dhadwal wrote:
Before the Communist revolution in Russia, around every 10 years(I think)
land was equally divided up and distributed to the peasents. Also, under
some religions debts have to be foregiven every so often. What's the
rationale for this type of
Ed Dodson responding...
Bryan Caplan wrote:
Robin Hanson wrote:
An obvious candidate is social insurance. And the obvious question about
that is how well this mechanism compares to other social insurance
mechanisms. This one at least is simple and clear, and difficult to
corrupt.
I
Ed Dodson responding...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Very often for water bills, you have to pay more per unit once your consumption goes
above a certain level. This might make it seem like the price goes up because your
quantity demanded goes up(which reverses the causality) and would mean an
