Re: Economics of Love

r *perfectly elastic* (meaning, people desire any quantity, but demand will be infinite below a given price), or something else entirely? Any ideas? PIERRE LEMIEUX Visiting Professor , Université du Québec à Hull Director of the Groupe de Recherche Économie et Liberté (GREL) Research Fell

Assassination terminology

If I am not mistaken, an homicide justified by moral reasons is called "execution", not "assassination". P.L. PIERRE LEMIEUX Visiting Professor , Université du Québec à Hull Director of the Groupe de Recherche Économie et Liberté (GREL) Research Fellow, Indepe

Re: Buchanan Palm Beach Statistics

are after something else than democracy. Whatever it is that they are after, what they get with elections (and elected representatives hiring other individuals to do their dirty jobs) is unending growth in state power. PIERRE LEMIEUX Visiting Professor , Université du Québec à Hull Director of the

Re: Canada

health care system in Canada? John -- John A. Viator, Ph.D. Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinlic 1002 Health Sciences Road East University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92612 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 949-824-3754 Fax:  949-824-8413 PIERRE LEMIEUX Visiting Professor , Univer

Re: More Guns, Less Crime?

btain. Fully automatic weapons and sawed-off shotguns were legal. For some reason, guns did not kill then. What one has to remember is that gun control increases the total price of guns, and carrying guns, more for the honest citizen than for the criminal. P.L. PIERRE LEMIEUX Visiting Prof

Re: More Guns, Less Crime?

At the limit, if all guns are owned by criminals, obviously you have a strong correlation between guns and crime. PIERRE LEMIEUX Visiting Professor , Université du Québec à Hull Director of the Groupe de Recherche Économie et Liberté (GREL) Research Fellow, Independent Institute http://www.pier

Re: More Guns, Less Crime?

cally significant results with its selected studies” (Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative v. EPA, No. 6:93CV00370 at 60, 77, M.D.N.C. July 17, 1998). PIERRE LEMIEUX Visiting Professor , Université du Québec à Hull Director of the Groupe de Recherche Économie et Liberté (GREL) Research Fell

Re: Preference revelation

ets. Perhaps you are talking about choices? Or do you want to incorporate non-price costs in choices? P.L. PIERRE LEMIEUX Visiting Professor , Université du Québec à Hull Co-director of the Groupe de Recherche Économie et Liberté (GREL) Research Fellow, Independent Institute http://www.pier

Destruction and keynesianism

emand? Or is it because nobody (except perhaps bank economists) really believes in Keynesianism anymore? PIERRE LEMIEUX Visiting Professor , Université du Québec à Hull Co-director of the Groupe de Recherche Économie et Liberté (GREL) Research Fellow, Independent Institute http://www.pierrelemieux

Dismal science

reover, not all stock holders are patriots, nor Americans for that matter.) Consequently, one would expect a drop on American exchanges on Monday (5%-6%?). Any other ideas? PIERRE LEMIEUX Visiting Professor , Université du Québec à Hull Co-director of the Groupe de Recherche Économie et Liberté (GREL)

Re: Destruction and keynesianism

Thanks, but where? At 13:04 16/09/01, you wrote: Pierre Lemieux wrote: > > Following Tuesday's tragic events, isn't it surprising that we don't > hear much the Keynesian argument that repairs and reconstruction > (plus, presumably, military purchases) will boost "

Re: Destruction and keynesianism

's too bad, but politicians may not be as altruist as I would want them to be (and as I am myself)." At 14:50 16/09/01, you wrote: on 9/16/01 12:27 PM, Pierre Lemieux at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks, but where? http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/opinion/14KRUG.html > At 13:04 16/0

Re: Free Re-fills

will not be able to sustain this policy for very long. PIERRE LEMIEUX Visiting Professor , Université du Québec à Hull Research Fellow, Independent Institute <http://www.pierrelemieux.org> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Backup: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Montréal address: C.P. 725, Tour de la Bourse, Montr

Re: Free Re-fills

erestingly, the Bistrot romain serves very thin slices of smoked salmon, which they re-fill at will. There is no point to give customers more than they would be willing to pay for. PIERRE LEMIEUX Visiting Professor , Université du Québec à Hull Research Fellow, Independent Insti

Other re-fills

And, of course, in France, every restaurant is expected to re-fill your bread (or your matches, in case you want to commit another sin). PIERRE LEMIEUX C.P. 725, Tour de la Bourse, Montréal, Canada  H4Z 1J9 Fax: 1(819)585-4423 <http://www.pierrelemieux.org> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (

Economists and broken things

" Neoclassical economist: "It ain't broken!" Austrian economist: "Being broken is a discovery process." Sociologist: "It is broken." Politician: "If it ain't fixed, don't break it." Government bureaucrat: "Fix it." PIERRE LEMIEU

Economics of crazy ideas

in public discourse, and are often absent from public debates, while PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) runs half a dozen websites (including cowsarecool.com) and wage campaigns with slogans like "Help chickens in China"? Any ideas? PIERRE LEMIEUX C.P. 725, Tour de

Re: Economics of crazy ideas

nations? -JP "In the long run, John Maynard Keynes is dead." God for us! * A British law that allowed the seizing of pine trees on the colonists' lands before the American Revolution. As Jim Bovard notes, this was nothing to the power that environmental laws give the current Ameri

Re: Economics of crazy ideas

ot;Communications") section at http://www.uqah.uquebec.ca/lemieux. P.L. PIERRE LEMIEUX C.P. 725, Tour de la Bourse, Montréal, Canada  H4Z 1J9 Fax: 1(819)585-4423 <http://www.pierrelemieux.org> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Backup: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key 0xBDFFCD16 Fingerprint: CF3E 4A3F 57AB 8AB2 88FB  A1D8 C83D 2E15 BDFF CD16

Privatization of roads and streets

main. For instance, private owners could (of course) exclude smokers or institute any kind of private apartheid, but NO-smoking in real public places would be forbidden. P.L. PIERRE LEMIEUX C.P. 725, Tour de la Bourse, Montréal, Canada  H4Z 1J9 Fax: 1(819)585-4423 <http://www.pierrelemi

Re: Are progressive taxes misconceived?

tes, who supports all the PC causes espoused by the tyrant who persecutes him! PIERRE LEMIEUX C.P. 725, Tour de la Bourse, Montréal, Canada  H4Z 1J9 Fax: 1(819)585-4423 <http://www.pierrelemieux.org> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Backup: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key 0xBDFFCD16 Fingerprint: CF3E 4A3F

Re: DNA and the Death Penalty

the number of guilty people being executed, including moral borderline cases that they would not want to punish so severely. P.L. PIERRE LEMIEUX C.P. 725, Tour de la Bourse, Montréal, Canada  H4Z 1J9 Fax: 1(819)585-4423 <http://www.pierrelemieux.org> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Backup: [EMAIL P

Re: How to own the world

dollars) you will have more wealth than all of WP (world product), indeed your dividends will be more than WP.  Is thus a theoretical conundrum or just an empirical one? First crack: Since dividends are, by definition, part of GDP (and WP), you can't have dividends higher than WP! P. PIERRE LE

Re: How to own the world

investor will never own C+K. The only way to own the world in finite time would be to own all productive capital now. PIERRE LEMIEUX C.P. 725, Tour de la Bourse, Montréal, Canada  H4Z 1J9 Fax: 1(819)585-4423 http://www.pierrelemieux.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Backup: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP K

Re: How to own the world

5%, and is allocated half to incomes (which then grow at 2,5%) and half to investment. (See simple illustration on attached spreadsheet.) P. Growth & investment, simple.xls PIERRE LEMIEUX Visiting Professor , Université du Québec à Hull Research Fellow, Independent Institute