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2003-06-24 Thread Bryan Caplan
Original Message Subject: A story of the Fed in Wonderland as Greenspan puts emphasis on gr owth - Economic View by Anatole Kaletsky Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:20:18 +0100 From: "Mitchinson, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dr Caplan, I'

The Availability Heuristic and Demand

2003-06-24 Thread Bryan Caplan
My wife was so swamped at work that I wound up paying our bills for the first time in years. As I was writing the checks, I began to wonder: After seeing the bills, would my consumption of e.g. utilities systematically fall? It seems at least plausible that the act of paying the bills makes y