On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Bryan Caplan wrote:
Sachs has popularized a strong finding: Distance from the equator
explains a great deal of the variation in income *levels* between
countries. The further from the equator, the richer countries are.
There are also some parallel findings for growth
Maybe you should ask George Soros! ;)
Alex Robson
UC Irvine
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, [iso-8859-1] markjohn® wrote:
is fixing exchange rates a good policy during currency crises?
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
A new graduate student in my department told me that at Beijing
University, econ undergraduates are not taught Keynesian economics -
they get a good dose of Marxism and then they get hooked up with
monetarism!!
Can anybody else verify
Robsin Hanson wrote:
People are usually not very direct when flirting, courting, etc.
For example, people usually do not just say "Do you want to have sex?".
One reason could be that some groups of individuals, by virtue of their
natural (or artificial!) physical or other attributes, and by
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Robin Hanson wrote:
If the monopolist equals the paper authors, and the product
over which there is a monopoly has its primary value in producing
this paper, then I think the journal should require that the
algorithm be made available free to others, but only for the
Alex Tabarrok wrote:
As a thought experiment, imagine you were on
an NSF committe and were presented with a proposal to study the minimum
wage by using a natural experiment, surveying fast food restaurants etc.
- i.e. everything which Card and Kruger did. I believe that just about
everyone
I'm puzzled at Gore's proposal to release a limited amount
of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, perhaps armchair
members can help. Apparently, under the swap proposal, oil firms would be
loaned oil from the SPR. They would then sell the crude in the open
market, increasing available
In today's Wall Street Journal, Michael Medved claims that Al Gore's
latest crusade against Hollywood poses no threat to the First
Amendment, because Gore isn't serious about regulating and is taking huge
campaign contributions from Hollywood. But what does the theory of
regulation say about
