It will be interesting when someone starts to analyze the data on
evacuation patterns/response by Census tracts.
Robert A. Book wrote:
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I'm not sure the premise is entirely correct.? About 30% of the
(former?) population of New
The only bright spot in the whole dreadful 10-15 years of petroleum and
gas price control era is that even the liberal pols no longer lunge for
controls (price) in response to price spikes.
Nixon didn't eliminate price control authority on petroleum when he
administratively abolished the wage-pri
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Prece
We did this in the 70's with disastrous results.
Wei Dai wrote:
> Can anyone explain why oil exporting countries are much more strategic
> with their oil trade policies than oil importing countries? While
> exporting countries actively collaborate through OPEC to set and enforce
> quotas, importi
Maybe look at migration of the Northern tier US states and put in a climate
variable. Except for those getting out of the concentration camps and
leaving the economically unsustainable post-communist communities, I wonder
how strong the climate variable is in Russian migration. Casual
conversatio
Why not look at GRE scores (or do they still require GREs?)
Rodney Weiher
Stephen Miller wrote:
> I doubt anyone has hard data on this, but I'm wondering what people on this
> list would guess is the average IQ of Ph.D. economists? Would it be much
> different from the average IQ of Ph.D.s in g
Rex,
I agree in general, but the fish example is a little misplaced. A few
"Individual Transferable Quotas"--ITQs exist in US fisheries and there are many
more proposals to extend their use in over harvested (most of them) US
fisheries. New Zealand has an extensive system. They are an example o
To make money for off-budget school projects, plus I suppose there was an
element of "feel good". Also, you could skip the first hour or so of
school that day if you worked on the sale, which had direct utility.
Anton Sherwood wrote:
> Rodney F Weiher wrote:
> > This real
This really makes me feel my age--when most economists are too young to remember
Paper Sale days at their school, church, or Boy Scout troop
and have to rely on the spoken record of their "elders". Is anyone writing this
stuff down?
By the way, does anyone remember grease sales? It had something
