At 10:47 PM 7/9/2002 -0700, you wrote:
The battle of baseball owners vs. baseball players may
not be as interesting as Joe Stiglitz vs. IMF, but
Strike Talk makes me wonder:
Why don't the (disconented) players of a sports league
buy out (some of?) the teams in the league?
Dan Lewis is the
OK Armchairs, here's a puzzle:
In discussion of her recent article
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14426-2002Apr19.html)
about
Kwame Brown, the first ever high schooler to be taken #1 overall by an
NBA
team, Sally Jenkins mentioned that both the NBA itself and the NCAA would
At the risk of belaboring the obvious, the article describes
the efforts of a critic of hate-crimes laws. He objects to laws
that hand out extra punishment if the motive was hatred of the victim's
ethnicity or religion, so to lampoon those laws he is introducing one
that punishes hatred of
That is indeed what I am getting at, although the
public-policy implication has to do with what happens when some good is
deliberately left unpriced (explicitly) as a matter of government policy,
and then what happens to people's preferences for that good as distinct
from what they say their
Additionally, Sony has said that they plan to produce
100,000 PS2's per week for every week after the launch week, and ship
them with the same MSRP, so clearly these $1000+ bidders are very time
sensitive, irrational, or live outside the U.S. and Japan.
Ananda
At 04:10 PM 10/26/00 -0400, you
lection of paintings each round.
I could go on (and on, and on) -- but my point is that there are a ton
of games out there for which economic reasoning is central.
Boardgaming is a great hobby for economists, if you know where to
look for the good games.
Ananda Gupta
Some folks ar
fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
So it's not that G movies aren't profitable - it's
that you have
one superior firm and other studios go into other kinds of
movies.
-fabio
That may be, but NB Medved is talking about not just cartoon G-rated movies
but G's and PG's (and the latter outnumber the
