> Armchairs,
>
> The military's current stop-loss policy prevents certain service members
> from leaving the service at the end of their normal enlistment contract.
> This policy is affecting specific skills and grades deemed critical for the
> war on terrorism. In econimic terms, what are the s
This topic seems to be near-and-dear to the "heart" of free-market
economists everywhere
It seems the U.S. might actually allow the sale of human organs for
transplant in the near future. This raises some interesting issues.
On the one hand, obviously we should expect the quantity of organs
Sorry for posting on a stale topic, but I can't resist .. I actually
*DID* discuss this with a photographer once (who said armchair
economics isn't a contact sport? ;-)
> > for the negatives - but the photographers always react with horror to
> > this suggestion and refuse.
> > Alex
>
> Ask th
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"Gustavo Lacerda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Claim: "auto manufacturers won't make cars that last long (say, 20 years of
> > reliable operation) because they would make less money that way".
> >
> > Your opinion?
> >
Krist van Besien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot
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First Law of Work:
If you can't get your work done in the first 24 hours, work nights.
> William Dickens wrote:
> >
> > Wisconsin used to regulate the color of margarine. The dairy industry wanted to
>reduce the demand for it. From what I've been told there was a time when you bought
>white margarine, but it came with yellow food coloring that you could mix into it if
>you wante
> --- Anton Sherwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Perich wrote:
> > . . . here's a thought: in six billion years, the sun will burn out,
> > making all research into sustainability and environmental / resource
> > economics a waste of time. . . .
>
> But what is the present value of somethin
> It seems to me that an effective remedy to grade inflation would be
> standardized exams on the subjects taught, prior to graduation. There would
> be, for example, a standard exam for econ majors, similar to what is done in
> grad schools. If many universities used the same exams, then that w
(OK, this is my third attempt in three days to get this particular
post through the server... --RAB)
> > Since grades can't get any higher than an A, doesn't
> > grade inflation merely squeeze out information
> > regarding graduates as the grade scale gets compressed
> > at the high end?
>
> Y
> --- "Robert A. Book" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Isn't this what the GRE, MCAT, etc., are for? Granted, they don't
> > apply to all post-graduate plans, but it's a start.
Fred Foldvary ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) responded:
> How many employers re
That's what I meant. ;-)
>The real problem with grade inflation is not the reduction in
> information that might be used by employers. As with regular inflation,
> the real problem is that grade inflation is not uniform - some
> departments and some professors are more subject to inflation
This story is almost identical to a classic hypthetical example of the
Coase Theorem!
--Robert
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=294844
14 May 2002 19:43 GMT+1
Power firm buys town for $20m
By David Usborne in New York
14 May 2002
Cheshire is a small town in
> > "Providing this free service [public restroom] for
> > their customers only serves to reduce businesses'
> > profits, or else the cost is passed on
> > indiscriminately to all their customers."
>
> Serious question: If the firm is already charging a
> profit maximizing price, how can it pass
> Here are some more factors to consider in evaluating the relative safety of planes
>vs. cars (maybe Saudi Arabia has the right idea?):
>
>
> The old wives' tale (old husbands' tale?) turns out to be true after all. Per
>million miles driven, women drivers have a much higher accident r
To the extent that foreign aid money buys whatever it buys, it would
also have to depend on the total GDP and per capita GDP of the
recipient country. Assuming diminishing marginal utility of money,
giving $1 per capita to Britain would not buy as much as $1 per capita
to Malawi.
Of course, it do
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:45:40PM -0800, Fred Foldvary wrote:
> --- fabio guillermo rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > By that logic, animals are economic
> > actors - animals seem to choose their actions.
>
> To some degree, to the degree that choice is involved, some animals are
> economic a
It might be worth noting that Bill's original complaint concerned not
amateurs generally, but NEWS MEDIA reporters and anchors.
It is quite possible that the average economics ability of news media
people is lower than the average economics ability of other
non-economists. This has been establish
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:44:59PM -0800, Fred Foldvary wrote:
> > There is also a supply-side effect from cutting the marginal tax rate, from
> > less uncertainty about the company as it shifts to less debt and more
> > equity, as well as more investor confidence when the profits are sent to
> >
> > Koushik Sekhar wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone explain why ordinary Americans are not objecting to tax
> > cuts (such as dividend tax cuts) that will only favour the top
> > percentiles of the wealthy ?
Bryan Caplan wrote:
> Among other things, this assumes that people's views on tax policy are
> d
> I'm quite sure that if this happened with a Brookings scholar he
> would be fired. It will be interesting to see what AEI does. Hats
> off to Sanchez at Cato for discovering this. - - Bill Dickens
A few years ago, Michael Lerner, the Editor of Tikkun (a very
left-wing magazine) was found to b
> equally. This, of course, gives a boost to smaller market teams. The
> last six Super Bowl winners have been Tampa, New England, Baltimore, St.
> Louis, Denver (twice) and Green Bay. All relatively large markets.
Green Bay, Wisconsin is a large market?
> In my informal experience, fathers and sons tend to work together
> full-time only in professions with strict licensing or training
> requirements. Electricians, lawyers, realtors and even CPAs - I've
> found more father/son teams here than in any other type of job. All
> of those jobs have fai
> In a message dated 7/14/03 9:52:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >A few people seem to have skipped over the first sentence of my post.
> >
> >The article said that fertility rate is higher in dictatorships than in
> >democracies at *all income levels*. Meaning if you take any income level
> > But in a dictatorship, while my
> > child-rearing opportunities suffer, my business opportunities suffer
> > even more.
>
> But what if you live under a capitalist dicatator, like Chile's General
> Pinochet or South Korea's General Park [is this name right?]?
If my understanding is correct,
> Greider also has interesting material on the Democrats' connection to
> the S&L industry. I'd never heard about any of this, but he seems to
> have his facts straight on this point.
>
> Wrong hasn't been so much fun in years!
> --
Bryan, if he's wrong about the material you know a lot abou
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