Re: Growth, Wealth, and Race

2001-02-16 Thread Girard
I would not like to use dirty words but this line of thought could take you directly to some kind of racism. That's why your question is just stupid. But you probably know it. On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Bryan Caplan wrote: Sachs has popularized a strong finding: Distance from the equator

Re: Growth, Wealth, and Race

2001-02-19 Thread Girard
The second answer is of course the good one. As Maria said, there is only one human race. What we call human races are just artifacts. We all come from so mixed background that if there ever was something like different human races they disapeared long ago. But all this thread started with a

Re: Free Re-fills

2000-07-09 Thread Bernard Girard
We have in Europe things that look like free-re-fills. In some French restaurants (but it's probably true in other european countries) you have "buffets" : you choose what you eat on a table and you eat as much as you wish. It's a good deal for the restaurant owner : more food eaten (but not much

Re: Xerox machines and book prices

2000-09-12 Thread Bernard Girard
That's an idea almost as old as xerography. Does anyone knows of a company (or library) that markets this type of service? michael gilson de lemos a *crit : Hmmm. What about on-demand publishing, which is JIT, controlled set-up costs and dependent on photocopying technology? Best Regards,

Re: Teacher's income

2000-09-25 Thread Bernard Girard
fabio guillermo rojas a *crit : Technical schools (teaching colleges, many "state" schools) probably pay what the private market would pay: almost zilch for most humanities and something decent, but not spectacular, for people teaching real skills. Are Humanities less real skills that,

Re: News Coverage and bad economics

2003-01-09 Thread Bernard Girard
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