Incomes over time

2007-04-18 Thread Cyril Morong
. Overall household income is much higher in 2005 than in 1980. See graph on page 11 Cyril Morong, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Economics San Antonio College

Median Wages and Income

2007-04-17 Thread Cyril Morong
not all workers get paid by the hour? There is more info at the next link http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/histinc/incpertoc.html Cyril Morong, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Economics San Antonio College

Median Wages

2007-04-12 Thread Cyril Morong
you for your time. Cyril Morong, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Economics San Antonio College

Median Wages

2007-04-12 Thread Cyril Morong
ยป March 2006: When Does Inequality Matter? http://www.cato-unbound.org/archives/march-2006/ Gabriel On 4/12/07, Cyril Morong wrote: Robert Frank wrote in the New York Times With the median wage, adjusted for inflation, lower now than in 1980 Does anyone know where there is a data

Median Wages

2007-04-12 Thread Cyril Morong
would real median wages fall? And if they did not try to get that income enhancing education, why not? What explanations have been offered by those saying wages have declined or stagnated? Cyril Morong, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Economics San Antonio College

Fun with monopostic competition

2006-12-20 Thread Cyril Morong
crosses MC. If anyone has seen this before, please let me know. You can read this at http://www.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/MonopolisticCompetition.doc Cyril Morong

How to Stop the PlaySation Violence

2006-11-24 Thread Cyril Morong
the police come investigate crimes. All of that could be avoided by higher prices Cyril Morong Jared Faris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there is another factor here: company goodwill. Accountants already know how to treat goodwill so it could probably be analyzed in this case

How to Stop the PlaySation Violence

2006-11-24 Thread Cyril Morong
Lines might be negative externalities. But is there some reason why the retailers cannot raise the price to cover them? Cyril Morong John Perich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to Stop the PlaySation Violence Cyril, The pricing strategy you describe is effectively in place now

Odd Request From Journal in Foreign Country

2006-11-10 Thread Cyril Morong
I submitted an article to a foreign journal. This is something they requested, which, of course, I am not going to send them."Dear Professor Cyril Morong: thank you very much for your prompt response. We need your birth date in order to complete your personal data in our registers.

Critiques of Traditional Economic Theory

2006-11-05 Thread Cyril Morong
I could not think of a better phrase. Has anyone heard of the following books""Debunking Economics" by Steve Keen "Death of Economics" by Paul Ormerod Anyone know if they are worth reading or if their critiques are useful?Cyril Morong

What are the best economics blogs?

2006-10-11 Thread Cyril Morong
What blogs do people on this list like? And are blogs the reason not much gets posted to this list anymore?Cyril Morong

Edmund Phelps and Harry Hopkins

2006-10-10 Thread Cyril Morong
I have not read any books by Phelps. Does anyone know if he ever quoted Harry Hopkins? Below are quotes from each man and they both relate to how unemployment dimishes skills and hurts morale.In a 1935 NY Times article, Harry Hopkins, Federal Emergency Relief Administrator was quoted:

Drivers give helmeted cyclists less room?

2006-09-13 Thread Cyril Morong
This sounds like the discussion in the "Armchair Economist" book about the baby on board signs and how it might affect accident rates.http://my.netscape.com/corewidgets/news/story.psp?cat=50900id=2006091307570002003114 TORONTO (Reuters) - Motorists give greater

Price Gouging is Bad Medicine

2006-05-21 Thread Cyril Morong
That is the title of an interesting article on page A9 of the May 20/21 Wall Street Journal by Alexander Tabarrok. A longer and more in depth version can be found athttp://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cjr_10.htmCyril Morong

NAFTA took jobs, workers from Mexico

2006-04-15 Thread Cyril Morong
nformation on this, please let me know or send me some links that can refute this article.A link to the article is below.Cyril Moronghttp://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/letters/stories/MYSA041306.2O.rosalescomment.169a10e3.html

Real Wages

2005-11-29 Thread Cyril Morong
of the President. Cyril Morong

Benefits of education

2005-11-17 Thread Cyril Morong
A company called CCBenefits, INC did a study and found that the community college I teach at yields a 27% rate of return from taxpayer dollars spent on it. That seems very high. Has anyone heard of this company or an economist named Kjell Christopherson, who works for them? Cyril Morong

Historic districts

2005-11-17 Thread Cyril Morong
Does anyone know of any studies on the economic impact of designating neighborhoods in big cities historic districts? Does doing this create any net benefits? Cyril Morong

Diversity in Higher Education

2005-09-14 Thread Cyril Morong
y may tend to express only certain types opinions and look down on or ridicule other types of opinions. Off the point, but there was a quote in the paper yesterday (I forgot from who) it was something like "Social scientists make an art of out trying to pull habits out of rats." Cyril Morong

NAFTA, umemployment rates and trade deficits

2005-04-17 Thread Cyril Morong
would rise .12 percentage points. There may be time series issues like serial correlation which I have not tested for. There may also be other factors like minimum wage laws, regulations, etc that might affect this. Comments welcome. Cyril Morong

NAFTA, umemployment rates and trade deficits

2005-04-17 Thread Cyril Morong
Sorry. That study I did covered the U.S. from 1961-2000. Cyril Morong

NAFTA, umemployment rates and trade deficits

2005-04-17 Thread Cyril Morong
a department of labor website and that series started in 1964. So the period for the regression was 1965-2000. But the same result for the trade deficit. The more negative it gets, the lower the unemployment rate. Cyril Morong

Re: the answer is...

2004-12-16 Thread Cyril Morong
Could there be some collinearity with education or educational attainment? If people with more education make more income (and were more likely to vote for Kerry), maybe something else is going on. I actually don't know if Kerry got more support from the best educated.