Alex Tabarrok wrote:
I am interested in the suggestions of list members as to
what the most important lessons economics has to teach.
This essay might be useful
http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250CID=1051-013003A
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Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
First off, if macro is at all close to a science,
there should be near unanimity, among macro experts,
on exactly: why did the dot.com bubble keep growing, even
after Greenspan's 1997 (?) irrational exuberance comments?
Why did Argentina turn into such a mess?
I don't think there is agreement.
Hi,
Some concepts I think that it would be useful for reporters to know:
broken windows fallacy.
Wars don't create jobs on net--war-related jobs supplants jobs that
would've been created by providing non-war related goods/services.
seen vs. unseen
How FDA regulations actually harm health by
I'm actually not a Kuhnian on these issues, but I am trying to see how far
Kuhn's theory goes in accurately describing economic research. Is it
really true that there aren't reigning paradigms in meteorology?
That is not what I meant. Of course there is. Its thermodynamics. However, to an
Alex,
I found the article in the Economist, March 31, 2001 , pp. 20-22
stressing the relationship of poverty and lack of property rights
(a short but neat summary of De Soto's thesis in his new book The
Mystery of Capital) to be very useful. Good luck.
George Berger
Alex Tabarrok wrote:
I
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First off, if macro is at all close to a science,
there should be near unanimity, among macro experts,
Is there unanimity among anthropologists and biologists and physicists and
medical researchers?
Fred Foldvary
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Also, almost all the profession
will now also agree that ... a large fraction of what
we call business cycles are the natural responses of an economy to real
shocks.
Alex
Would that fraction include the downturn that followed the 1990s
techno-boom, the recession having begun
--- Alex Tabarrok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I will be giving a 15-20 minute talk to a bunch of journalists and
proto-journalists ( most of them are editors of student university
newspapers) about what economics has to offer journalism. I am
interested in the suggestions of list members as
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, William Dickens wrote:
That is not what I meant. Of course there is. Its thermodynamics.
However, to an outsider it looks to impose about as much structure on
weather modeling as the notion of general equilibrium imposes on
macro-modeling - - that is that the devil is in
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