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
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
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
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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Brad, when is this puppy coming out?
max
October...
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Will it be competitively priced vis a vis
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
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:
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
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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