RE Brad's
It is a
perfect illustration of how
monopolistically competitive markets
with entry do not produce
anything like the social optimum...
It is also a clear example of how firms, seeking
to make profits, shape market structure: market
structure is often endogenously determined
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Jim wrote,
After all, it's the
sovereign consumers who decide what
sucks and what doesn't suck.
But remember one of the key characteristics
RE Brad's
It is a
perfect illustration of how
monopolistically competitive markets
with entry do not produce
anything like the social optimum...
It is also a clear example of how firms, seeking
to make profits, shape market structure: market
structure is often endogenously determined by
Someone asked if the monopolistic competition theory was going to appear in
Brad's text. I would guess not, since it's a macro textbook and MC is seen
as a micro topic. But it should appear, since it is the normal form of
markets (except for the bits about equilibrium and the common assumption
Brad wrote:
If you wished (although God knows why
you would) to portray your
actions as a gamble by a flinty-eyed
amoral profit-maximizing
academic careerist, you could say that:
Okay, Okay -- you saw right through me.
But you missed one key aspect of my free (sic)
text: while I will not
On Wednesday, May 2, 2001 at 21:20:47 (-0700) Brad DeLong writes:
Is there
something specific about software that makes the open-source
management problem particularly easy? Or can we look forward to the
development of similar collective
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On Wednesday, May 2, 2001 at 21:20:47 (-0700) Brad DeLong writes:
Is there
something specific about
Jim wrote,
After all, it's the
sovereign consumers who decide what
sucks and what doesn't suck.
But remember one of the key characteristics of the
textbook market--the ultimate user (the student)
does not pick the book. The professor does (and
most often the professor does not have
Title: Microeconomics: The Quest for Profits, the
Use of Power, and the Social Good
Level: Principles of Microeconomics
Cost: ZERO -- downloadable free from the Internet
as Adobe Acrobat files (professionally formatted
to look pretty). Or, for the cost of shipping
($3?), available on a CD.
The open source aspect of it is especially interesting. It has
proven very possible to design and maintain excellent computer
programs with a small charismatic core directing and assessing the
voluntary contributions of a floating horde of part-time
contributors. Even though the gift
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The consumer is the instructor. Mankiw's text is like cotton candy. It
gives the student the feeling that the
Brad, when is this puppy coming out?
max
October...
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Brad, when is this puppy coming out?
max
October...
=
Will it be competitively priced vis a vis
At 12:14 PM 5/1/01 -0700, you wrote:
Plug
I too have a textbook coming out in September or
October. (Or maybe later depending on what I do
this summer: so may obligations; so little time).
I had previously thought I'd have it done by now
but
Oh, and I did not get $1 million advance ...
Jim Devine wrote:
BTW, I don't know about publishing advances (never having received
one). I've heard that it doesn't come in a lump sum, that there are
all sorts of restrictions, and (maybe) that a lot of the publishing
costs are paid for out of the advance.
Typically you get an advance in
[Mankiw's] book sucks, but it was successful,the publishers tell me.
that means that according to the objective market test that we're all
supposed to be forced to take (in this Brave NeoLiberal World of ours), it
_doesn't_ suck. After all, it's the sovereign consumers who decide what
Jim wrote,
After all, it's the
sovereign consumers who decide what
sucks and what doesn't suck.
But remember one of the key characteristics of the
textbook market--the ultimate user (the student)
does not pick the book. The professor does (and
most often the professor does not have
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.
Learn to spell their.
At 01:28 PM 5/1/01 -0700, you wrote:
Jim wrote,
After all, it's the
sovereign consumers who decide what
sucks and what doesn't suck.
Eric writes (as does Michael Perelman):
But remember one of the key characteristics of the
textbook market--the ultimate user (the student)
does not pick the
At 01:37 PM 5/1/01 -0700, you wrote:
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.
Learn to spell their.
Learn to spell their.
somewhere I saw an instruction manual about how to start flame wars on the
Internet. One of the points was to correct everyone's spelling. Since many
people don't have spell-checkers on their e-mail programs and because
spelling standards are especially low in
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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
Congratulations to Eric for doing this and I hope more people follow.
This material should be free.
Look at, say, one of Kindleberger's textbooks from 30 years back. You
get excellent, clearly-written, _text_: sentences, paragraphs, sections,
and chapters meant to be read like a real book, not
Colin writes: We need an evolving collection of freeware books, chapters, exercises,
problem sets, handouts, examples, interactive tutorials, and whatnot -- enough so that
you
could put on a decent intro course without making students buy anything. Then let
publishers turn their efforts to
The colors in the books are very important. A student who aims for a C
just has to read the red stuff; for a B, the student has to read the blue
stuff also; but for an A black print is also important.
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:41:32PM -0700, Colin Danby wrote:
Congratulations to Eric for
For fiscal you should have shown a big truck labeled
neoliberalism running the turtle over in the middle
of the screen.
mbs
You have a better way to teach people the relative lags involved in
automatic stabilizers, monetary policy, and discretionary fiscal
policy?
:-)
Brad DeLong
Shme on
I can't wait for the video game version, with the
cheetah, rabbit, and snail racing across the screen.
mbs
You have a better way to teach people the relative lags involved in
automatic stabilizers, monetary policy, and discretionary fiscal
policy?
:-)
Brad DeLong
For fiscal you should have shown a big truck labeled
neoliberalism running the turtle over in the middle
of the screen.
mbs
You have a better way to teach people the relative lags involved in
automatic stabilizers, monetary policy, and discretionary fiscal
policy?
:-)
Brad DeLong
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