Accounting costs is the correct term. Most micro textbooks contain a
discussion of the difference between accounting and economic costs.
Alex
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Alexander Tabarrok
Department of Economics, MSN 1D3
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA, 22030
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If that were the case, why werent grades easy to
begin with? Why did grade inflation begin to occur
when it did (the 1960s??)? I doubt it was because
grading time increased?
Grading can take a lot of time, but at research
universities, faculty often dont do their own
grading. Multiple choice
Before the leftists drive me out of Iowa, I'd planned to do my dissertation
in income tax history, and began to do preliminary research on what the
Founding Fathers meant by direct taxes. I read the The Debate on the
Constitution and discovered that direct taxes seemed to be one of those
Originally the federal income tax law sought to tax income closest to the
source, presumably because the farther from the source, the more easily
income might escape detection and therefore taxation. In the hearings over
the 1913 income tax law one member of Congress suggested simply taxing
In the Rhetoric Department at Iowa instructors who tried to actually teach
writing and therefore generated many student complaints were offered out of
their contracts--that is, forced out--because the chair and assistant chair
didn't want to deal with student complaints.
In a message dated
Sorry, just catching up to this post...
First, if war were so expensive relative to peace why
does it exist? Maybe peace is more expensive, in
terms of risk for example, than open warfare.
The costs of war are born by those who pay for and die in the wars, and
these people are not the same
A quick check of Nation, State, and Economy (first published in 1919)
shows 5 uses of the term statism: see http://www.mises.org/nsande.asp
and search on statism
Mises's use of the term fits the first definition, Extreme development
of the power of the State over the individual citizen.
So,
Also consider the possibility that many departments get budgets based on
enrollments - and tough grades scare students away! Fabio
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In the Rhetoric Department at Iowa instructors who tried to actually teach
writing and therefore generated many
Has anybody tested the hypothesis that professors
assign easy grades
because it sucks up too much time?
Hi,
I am intersted in a related question. Are grades of
new and/or 'experimental' classes intentionally
inflated?
New classes often suffer from poor attendance and an
initial bout of
Howdy,
A few years ago I read in the Christian Science
Monitor about a study that went approximately like
this:
The researchers compared income of those who had
college degrees and evidence of having actually with
those who claimed to have degrees but for whom the
college had no records of
I sent this message once before, but it doesn't seem to have gone
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