dollars or in 1820's
dollars. I only posed it to say that the Czeck study was not
particularly groundbreaking. I do not know who funded the earlier NBER
study.
Brown, Martin (NCI) wrote:
This is a different issue than costs to health care system. What is $14.5
billion dollars as a percent
born in 1920 had smoked, the cost to the system
would have been $14.5 billion higher. Worries about the cost of
non-smoking to social security.##
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:02:34PM -0400, Brown, Martin (NCI) wrote:
It actually isn't that simple. I am very knowledgeable about
It actually isn't that simple. I am very knowledgeable about the
literature in this area and I am also sponsoring new studies on this using
primary data. While people who smoke tend to die earlier, on average, than
non-smokers, they also suffer from more chronic illness during the
intervening
I'll send $100 in the mail for a sub.
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Talking about left organizations going bankrupt,
I think pen-lers should know that
It got a very negative review in The Nation
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Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 11:45 AM
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Subject: [PEN-L:14383] Re: Lying About Vietnam (and lying about
economics)
See the new bio by Tom Wells on
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It got a very negative review in The Nation
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From: Michael
I believe it is Frances Moore Lappe. She's great. I new here back in the
60's.
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Subject: [PEN-L:14416] Re: Zapatistas Desire for Mod Cons (was Re:
Foster
Where is Brad on this?
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Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:50 PM
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Subject: [PEN-L:14099] CEPR: The Scorecard on Globalization 1980-2000:
20 Years of Diminished Progress
*please post*
--
new economy
Maybe for the non-locals, you should explain the Paradise/Chico dialectic.
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From: Tim Bousquet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:52 AM
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Subject: [PEN-L:12931] Re: FW: A great response to Dr. Laura
Last year some
. Laura
--- Brown, Martin (NCI) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe for the non-locals, you should explain the
Paradise/Chico dialectic.
Paradise is the town up the road, mostly nowadays a
retirement community. Twenty degrees cooler than Chico
in the summer, above the fog/smog line, but lots
I went camping in the rain on Chingoteague Island (were talking about one
tent in a sea of trailer homes) on Memorial Day weekend. Actually I had to
leave early morning on Memorial Day because I had to get up to Boston for a
site visit at Harvard Med on Tuesday. Call me a masochist, but I spent
I got a pdf file of the Who Owns the Media paper. If anyone wants a copy,
let me know.
In the 1960's I knew a physics professor at Berkeley who became politically
active on the left (still is). He immediately became persona non grata in
the department. The big social nexus of the department were periodic
parties at the house of (as they use to say) Dr. and Mrs. Edward Teller. As
Good example of Robinsonian (Joan not Crusoe) waste of competition. Do you
give this example in the textbook? I have shown similar results in the
market for pesticides and oranges in California (got me attacked by the
Council on Agricultural Science and Technology and had industry lawyers
I have been working with OECD on a cross-national study of breast cancer.
This study only involves developed countries (I guess with the exception of
Mexico). Even within this group it is true that that quality and reliability
of statistics is highly variable by country. Of course, developing
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I have been working with OECD on a cross-national study of breast cancer.
This study only involves developed
For example in the case of California oranges, the growers coop as power to
set price (through aggregate supply control) and earn monolpoly profits
because of this and also because of the market power associated with
consumer loyalty to the brand name (California oranges, Sunkist etc.). But
This same company was convicted of cheating the federal government and
American Indian tribes of oil royalties by systematically un-reporting the
amount of oil that they were pumping from these properties. The fraud was
in the hundreds of millions of dollars, I believe.
My brother, a computer
We have multiple grantees working on very complicated population level
disease simulation models. They are iteracting using an Internet - based,
open form relational database tool called Sciwiki. We'll see how it works
but it looks pretty neat.
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From: Brad DeLong
And I'm sure he is donating all his advance and royalties back to UC to
underwrite scholarships for low income and minority students, matching in
action, his rhetoric to others about thier moral obligations to California
society.
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From: Michael Perelman
Oh, that's a high level of debate! How about answering the question? YOU are
the one who brought up the moral obligation stuff, not me. [This message
grammar and spell-checked.]
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From: Brad DeLong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 4:37 PM
To:
the bait so easily. Sorry won't happen again.
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From: Brown, Martin (NCI)
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 5:04 PM
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Subject: RE: [PEN-L:11053] Re: RE: Re: brad de long textbook
Oh, that's a high level of debate! How about answering the question? YOU
Short curly hair, and beard,
(supported by Paul in Corinthians saying that long hair naturally disgraces
a man), darker skin, and rounder features, based on reconstruction of a 1st
century skulls from the area.
Out of some sort of masochistic impulse I usually catch the odious
McLaughlin
I've never met anyone so dumb as to claim the fact that the Second
International did *no* thinking about what society would look like
after the revolution played a role in opening the way for Stalin.
Until now...
I have not been a part of this thread and tend to generally avoid these
kinds
Is this Aristotle or Proyect? Worms and spiders are insects?
Computer science - A
Biology - F
Within insects, you have worms, spiders, moths, etc.
I emailed this to may college drop-out Web programming son in New Zealand.
I'll see what he thinks about it. Proyect and others might enjoy his
thoughts on progamming and the 20-something's Web culture at
www.benbrown.com
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From: Louis Proyect [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
One of the myriad of Washington Post house conservatives ran an OpEd last
week saying he was for reparations to African Americans. But, he basically
said they should take $50K per family and forever after shut up about
affirmative action. Here is my response, to be published in the Washington
Wow, when I was there circa 1980-83 the administration was reactionary from
top to bottom and Fessio was king of the hill. He ran his own little
reactionary enclave called the St.Ignasius Institute. There are plenty of
scandals waiting to be uncovered at USF, especially in the ECONOMICS
Yes, that is how I remember him to. He was quite young, very disciplined
and very extreme. Their were a whole bunch of retired Jesuits who were easy
going and lived like Friar Tuck on the largesse of the University. I was
taken over to their quarter for lunch one day. Open bar!! They SF
Sound like a Bayesian
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From: Forstater, Mathew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 1:54 PM
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"Keynes made the
I think it is more general than that. I have been in situations, some
dating back 20 years, some a lot more recent, where members of priveleged
groups (rich whites, male physicians, etc.) Told crude anti-black,
anti-semetic, anti-women jokes and if you didn't "go along" by laughing, the
response
One of the main writers for Marx Brothers films was Murray Ryskind, a
notable Hollywood right-winger. Harpo was a lot more left than Groucho.
Also, I guess it is well known that the Brothers introduced a lot a ad
libbing on top of the scripts they were given. By the way, I get some of
this from
Right.
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Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 9:50 AM
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Martin wrote: I get some of this from a book I picked up on the remainder
table called
Ticky Dick and
Correction. I meant the SAME one
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From: Brown, Martin (NCI)
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:22 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [PEN-L:9755] RE: Re: humor
How many quantum mechanics does it take to screw in the light bulb?
One to screw it in at a probability
How many quantum mechanics does it take to screw in the light bulb?
One to screw it in at a probability of 95% and one to not screw it in at a
probability of 5%.
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From: J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:40 PM
To: [EMAIL
Q: How many neoclassical economists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: It would never get screwed in because the dark room exists and
therefore must be the result of market efficiency and pareto optimality so
there is no reason to screw in a light bulb; i.e. just accept the
In general, when firms have market power, short-run porfit maximization does
not equal long-run profit maximization. For example, there is a literature
on dynamic limit pricing for monopoly and oligopoly firms that says firms
with market power charge below the short-run profit maximizing price
Nonsense. The higher price paid by and to scalpers reflects price
discrimination. It is only the few hardcore fans or people who need to buy
tickets on short notice that are willing pay the higher price. In theory,
ticket agencies could also reap these extra profits by charging a different
Price discrimination is technically illegal, but there are a lot of loop
holes, plus the FTC and the Justice Department basically stopped enforcing
this aspect of Anti-trust in the 1960s. Much of the kind of price
discrimination you mentioned below is allowed because and airline ticket or
hotel
I agree but in the example cited there is no way to prove or disprove that a
given level of ticket scalping activity is or is not compatible with profit
maximization by the ticketing service firm. As you say, this kind of thing
tends to be tautological, especially if you think you can rely on
patent.
"Brown, Martin (NCI)" wrote:
I was recently asked to review a
Chicago paper, by two star Chicago time economists, on the seemingly
innocuous subject of the economic returns to medical research. Knowing
what
the client wanted to hear, they came to the conclusion that such retu
by Murphy and Topel? They like the publicly funded research
that corporations can patent.
"Brown, Martin (NCI)" wrote:
I was recently asked to review a
Chicago paper, by two star Chicago time economists, on the seemingly
innocuous subject of the economic returns to medical res
I think the best context on all of this is Alexander Saxton's book, The
Indespensible Enemy. I also made a small contribution to this literature:
Brown M.L., Philips P. Competition, racism and hiring practices among
California manufacturers: 1860-1882, Industrial and Labor Relations Review
This is actually kind of complicated. He first became prominent as a
journalist around this issue. He later repudiated his position on the
Chinese question. While many of followers of George evolved into a strange
brand of libertarianism; his own writings are quite clear on two points: The
This is incorrect. His anti-Chinese writing predated his work and fame as a
political economist.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 10:59 AM
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thing
like that (not "geomantic" I know, but the "geo" is in there).
Barkley Rosser
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From: Brown, Martin (NCI) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 11:58 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:7850] RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: d
After some protest, the sleeping law was withdrawn. However, such
regulations are not uncommon in many jurisdictions. They are aimed at
keeping poor immigrant families, e.g., 10 people living in one house with 3
bedrooms, out of the "good" neighborhoods. When I first came to the DC area
I lived
Having to live with them was hell, but from a broader perspective they were
also the victims of the Pentagon cultureNo, I didn't spit on them (or
the many anti-war G.I.'s I worked with from 1965 - 1975 in San Diego and San
Francisco).
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From: Jim Devine
I don't have the sources at my fingertips, but there are several case
studies of successful utopian-socialists experiments in California that were
actively suppressed, using legal and extra-legal means, by what can only be
described as agents of Capitalist interest, when they became economically
I agree
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From: Yoshie Furuhashi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 9:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:4820] Re: Women and cigarettes
Martin Brown wrote:
I think this is part, but not all, of the story. Since the Surgeon
Some researchers here at NCI have recently looked at mortality rates from
lung cancer by socioeconomic status quintiles. In 1969 the higest SES group
had the highest lung cancer mortality rate. Around 1985 the rates were
almost identical across the groups. In 1997 there is a sharp gradient in
rettes, which became more associated with lower
class
behavior.
"Brown, Martin (NCI)" wrote:
Some researchers here at NCI have recently looked at mortality rates from
lung cancer by socioeconomic status quintiles. In 1969 the higest SES
group
had the highest lung cancer mortality rat
Be careful, Larry Summers will conclude that this a good "revealed
preference" calculation for the economic value of life in Argentina and then
apply it to pollution control issues. Afterall, aren't financial markets
suppose to be efficient?
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From: Nestor Miguel
My thesis was 425 pages and it goes for the same price. A bargain!
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From: Doug Henwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 8:00 PM
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Subject: [PEN-L:239] Re: Re: Re: Re: contentville
Max Sawicky wrote:
Bastids. selling my
This is not restricted to economics. In the biological sciences, "science,"
has been redefined as meaning molecular biology (i.e., developing drugs and
other agents for pharmaceutical and agribusiness companies). Field
biologists and system's ecologists are not hired and those that remain are
Another great example is "Ballad for America," a patriotic oratoria written
by Gordon Jenkins and first performed at the REPUBLICAN national convention
(I'm not sure what year). It became a staple for Paul Robeson, as the lead
soloist and narrator, usually accompanied by a "people's chorus" of
Right, I think Jenkins was the conductor.
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From: Louis Proyect [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 9:45 AM
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Subject: [PEN-L:135] Patriotism and radicalism
Martin wrote:
Another great example is "Ballad for America," a
The remark about it being reminiscent of Fasism is absolutely correct.
There is a picture of it in the Washington Post and the thing looks exactly
like the backdrop of the Nuremburg Rally. What is interesting is that the
Post pointed this out in earlier coverage but now only quotes people who
John Roemer, John Roemer Oh yeah, I remember him. Berkeley, 1969.
Undergraduate math major and head of local Progressive Labor Party chapter.
"People's Park are a bunch of reactionary hippies stealing parking spaces
from the working class." Also, get other people to front for you and get
some of the dumb shit
that I pulled as a student radical long ago. Would you? --jks
In a message dated Fri, 14 Jul 2000 2:45:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
"Brown, Martin (NCI)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, just his character.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai
Ah, someone got the point!
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From: Jim Devine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 4:22 PM
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Subject: [PEN-L:21700] Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: M once again
I don't know John Roemer well at all, but more than one person I've talked
to
A not too-well recognized hero in this whole struggle is Stanton Glantz at
Stanford University. He has been instrumental in bringing secret corporate
documents of the big tobacco companies into the light of day and also in
promoting the perspective that anti-smoking means a critique of corporate
only time I know of where the administration of the University of California
acted with integrity and courage.
"Brown, Martin (NCI)" wrote:
A not too-well recognized hero in this whole struggle is Stanton Glantz at
Stanford University. He has been instrumental in bringing secret
My son has actually developed a tool that can do all this in a split second.
It is available free at deepleap.com
1. copy the article into word for windows.
2. replace all end of paragraph characters (^p) with space.
3. hit the enter key twice to insert a line between paragraphs.
4. paste
Nancy works for me at the National Cancer Institute. See
http://www-dccps.ims.nci.nih.gov/ARP/economics.html
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From: Jim Devine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 12:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:20477] Re: Re: GT
At 08:57 AM
Under Hitler, the Nazi regime carried out wide-spread and effective anti-tobacco
public health campaigns. Does that mean that we should reject the view that
smoking causes lung cancer and heart disease?
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From: Jim Devine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday,
I recently found, in an old bookstore in rural Pennsylvania, a 1939 first
edition (Alfred A. Knopf) biography of Diego Rivera, by Betram Wolf. To read a
contemporary biography of Rivera by a politically sympathetic art historian is
very enlightening. (Wolf was a noted art historian with half a
My college age son runs a web page and is going to run something on it
about the Free Tibet concert. I have expressed skepticism to him that Tibetians
would be better off under a Dalai Lama regime. So, he invited me to post a
commentary on this. Anyone have any information that would
I once bought a "magisterial" two volume book by Linder call "Anti-Samuelson".
It was suppose to be a page-by-page critique of Samuelson. But it wasn't that
great.
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Jim, maybe you could forward the following question to Baumol.
Why do you say that landlord behavior was scandolous in Ireland. Once the
legitimacy of private property in land-rent is presumed, why is it scandolous
that each landlord should seek to maximize the collection of the monopoly value
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