RE: This year econ nobel prize?

2000-10-12 Thread Bill Dickens
For some reason I didn't get this message until Wednesday, Oct 11, 2000. I'll take a safe "guess" the James "Heckit" Heckman and Daniel "Don't call me Janice" McFadden are shoo-ins :-) How can Prof. Baumol continuously be ignored by this so-called august Committee. Neither Heckman or McFadden co

Re: patenting

2000-10-12 Thread Chris Auld
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 t

Re: Personality, Politics, and Economics Test

2000-10-12 Thread Pat McCann
Should we resubmit our answers? Patrick McCann GMU Undergrad On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Bryan Caplan wrote: > Followup announcement. I had some technical problems with the > Personality, Politics, and Economics online test I announced last week. > Now it is up and working again, but has moved to:

RE: This year econ nobel prize?

2000-10-12 Thread Ray Lehmann
--- Bill Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am I alone in my thinking about > Baumol/Hirschman as the > most deserving economists without a Nobel Prize on > their c.v.? Gordon Tullock? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access

Re: Personality, Politics, and Economics Test

2000-10-12 Thread Bryan Caplan
Pat McCann wrote: > > Should we resubmit our answers? > > Patrick McCann > GMU Undergrad For anyone at Mason, and anyone who responded on Thursday, there is no need. -- Prof. Bryan Caplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bca

RE: This year econ nobel prize?

2000-10-12 Thread Glenn C. Fox
I would add Harold Demsetz to the list of deserving candidates. Date sent: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:24:17 -0400 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bill Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:

Napster article by David K. Levine

2000-10-12 Thread doug bennett
I have been away from the list for a while, so excuse me if Napster has been discussed to death. I was surprised to find this article by someone knowlegable on Economics. http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/napster.htm I was going to send my rebuttal, but perhaps it has allready been done, and