And when you take it further away from locally defined jurisdictions to the
high seas, where its a real free for all, the tragedy of the commons is
still very relevant. The debate (among fisheries people at least) then
revolves around the instruments that can be used to successfully counter the
It's more complicated than that. The tragedy of the commons is real. But
many
communities developed effective ways of combating the tendencies and
avoiding its effects. That does not mean the tendencies are not real and
that
the effects do not occur. The problems we have with overfishing are a
PEN-L,
Destroying peaches while many go without food says volumes about the system,
no? People can understand this failure of capitalism even if they've been
brainwashed to equate Marxism with murder.
Seth Sandronsky
Week in Review
By Mark Glover
Bee Staff Writer
(Published July 30, 2000)
A
I should have been more clear. The Tragedy of the Commons suggests that
environmental destruction comes from the lack of property rights. There is a
group in Montana that suggests that all environmental problems can be solved by
giving property rights to private owners. Supposedly, if I owned
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 2000
TODAY'S RELEASE: The Employment Cost Index (not seasonally adjusted) for
June 2000 was 148.0 (June 1989=100), an increase of 4.4 percent from June
1999. The Employment Cost Index (ECI) measures changes in compensation
costs, which include wages,
My point, which Jason mostly understood, many pre-market societies [before
markets became dominant, not without markets altogether] developed methods of
avoiding the problem of over-exploitation.
--
Michael Perelman
Keep in mind that there is an intensive campaign right now to discredit
this
Michael,
In Hardin's scenario, there already is private property rights: "As a
rational being, each herdsman seeks to maximize his gain. Explicitly or
implicitly, he asks, "What is the utility to me off adding one more animal
to my herd?"
So what you have under Hardin's schematic, in fact, is
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2000
Reflecting the U.S. economy's robust growth, 40 states registered personal
income gains that stayed ahead of inflation, according to the Commerce
Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. The states posting the largest
gains in personal income between
A week ago Friday The White House, over the signature of Al Gore, announced
that the administration would buy something like 1.2 million cases of pears --
over-supply. The pear farmers weren't getting a high enough price to even pick
the pears. The govt. will distribute the pears to schools,
Monday, July 31, 2000, 12:00 a.m. Pacific
Northwest rockfish face chancy future
Monday July 31st 2000
by Hal Bernton
Seattle Times staff reporter
Part two of a two-part series.
WARRENTON, Ore. - The skippers out of this Columbia River port take pride in
their skill at catching Pacific
The measure of hawks 'n doves "editorial balance" in the traditional
U.S. mode:
Some observers say U.S. policy regarding military aid to Colombia is
growing increasingly blurry, and can lead to the United States being
drawn into the South American nation's 35-year civil war. But others
At 07:48 AM 7/31/00 -0700, you wrote:
In Hardin's scenario, there already is private property rights: "As a
rational being, each herdsman seeks to maximize his gain. Explicitly or
implicitly, he asks, "What is the utility to me off adding one more animal
to my herd?"
So what you have under
That seems a much better solution than bulldozing peach trees. A program similar to
the pear program for peaches would make more sense. I recall with gratitude that as
a poor student in Eugene Oregon my family had access to a program that distributed
all kinds of surplus products: canned meat,
At 08:48 AM 7/31/00 -0700, you wrote:
A week ago Friday The White House, over the signature of Al Gore, announced
that the administration would buy something like 1.2 million cases of pears --
over-supply. The pear farmers weren't getting a high enough price to even
pick
the pears. The govt.
Statistics Canada
The Daily. Friday, July 28, 2000
Income inequality in Canada and the United States
1974-1997
Income distribution patterns in Canada and the United States have diverged
during the
past 10 years despite free trade and increased economic integration between
the two nations,
The folks at Statistics Canada wrote:
However, in the top one-fifth of the income distribution, American
families had disposable incomes
more than 20% higher than their Canadian counterparts. In the top
one-tenth of the income
distribution, disposable incomes among American families were about
July 30, 2000 / New York TIMES
RECKONINGS / By PAUL KRUGMAN
Facing the Music
Napster's big mistake, clearly, was basing itself in California. It
should have operated out of Jersey. Not the homeland of Bruce Springsteen
-- I mean old Jersey, the island in the middle of the English
Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky wrote:
I guess this is what would be taken as a funny remark in Manhattan.
For me it is just a demonstration that lack of confidence is expected
in women, and that only exceptional "specimens" (sorry, Yoshie, just
trying to be clear) escape it. As we say in Spanish, it
Nestor's sounding pretty orange these days...
Steve
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Doug Henwood wrote:
Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky wrote:
I guess this is what would be taken as a funny remark in Manhattan.
For me it is just a demonstration that lack of confidence is expected
in women, and that only
Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky wrote:
En relación a [PEN-L:2] Re: Re: rational expectations,
el 30 Jul 00, a las 6:18, Doug Henwood dijo:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
What does this say about the "male list" of economists?
Dunno, but I've never noticed that a lack of confidence was one of
your
I studies Ag. Econ at Berkeley. The people there and at Davis used to be expert in the
economics of grading produce. They would figure out what is the minimum size of an
olive or a peach to optimize returns for the agribiz types. Much of the early work in
econometrics came out of this work.
Over on M-Fem, this topic came up a while ago, and this is what
Katha, for instance, had to say on the matter:
I just picture that list going haywire with the publication of
Sommers book showing that it is boys, not girls, who are
discriminated against in schools; and that, as a recent
I believe that that theory and the theory of moral hazard began long ago, maybe
in the late 19th C. in the actuarial literature, although it was more recently
rediscovered by K. Arrow.
Jim Devine wrote:
Anyway, my thought is that PK refers to the theory of adverse selection as
being a
Studies have often shown that for every male diagnosed as suffering
from depression, two to six times as many females are so diagnosed.
Perhaps overconfidence (relative to actual capacities) in men are
socially expected and economically rewarded (at least relative to
women), hence
More sellouts;
Ken Hanly
Subject:
JO'BURG GETS SEATTLED - Business Day
Date:
Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:40:42 -0700
Business Day
13/7/00
JO'BURG GETS SEATTLED
Holding up an unexploded orange water balloon like a trophy,
water and
forestry director-general Mike Muller
Random sample of two -- Wildasin's text on public
finance discusses adverse selection. So does
Mankiw's principles text. I suspect it is treated
in most public finance books. One can't give a
complete discussion of market failure without it.
mbs
Jim Devine wrote:
Anyway, my thought is
At 04:32 PM 7/31/00 -0400, you wrote:
Random sample of two -- Wildasin's text on public
finance discusses adverse selection. So does
Mankiw's principles text. I suspect it is treated
in most public finance books. One can't give a
complete discussion of market failure without it.
only Mankiw
Duchesne:
was this study done by the same people who told us that 150,000
American died of anorexia every year (a # higher than that of
fatalities from car accidents!) For more false data propagated by
womyn's depts, see Sommers Who Stole Feminism? How Women
Have Betrayed Women.
Sommers is
Louis Proyect wrote:
Duchesne:
was this study done by the same people who told us that 150,000
American died of anorexia every year (a # higher than that of
fatalities from car accidents!) For more false data propagated by
womyn's depts, see Sommers Who Stole Feminism? How Women
Have Betrayed
was this study done by the same people who told us that 150,000
American died of anorexia every year (a # higher than that of
fatalities from car accidents!) For more false data propagated by
womyn's depts, see Sommers Who Stole Feminism? How Women
Have Betrayed Women.
One other thing,
At 01:42 PM 7/31/00 -0700, you wrote:
At 04:32 PM 7/31/00 -0400, you wrote:
Random sample of two -- Wildasin's text on public
finance discusses adverse selection. So does
Mankiw's principles text. I suspect it is treated
in most public finance books. One can't give a
complete discussion of
Just because she works for AEI doesn't mean she's wrong. But in fact
she's sloppy and devious. Laura Flanders fact-checked a lot of her
claims in her last book and found them seriously undersourced, to put
it mildly:
I would not be surprised to find "undersourcing" in this book
Furthermore, the book that Sommers hates so much--Naomi Wolf's "The Beauty
Myth"--is absolutely correct. Although Wolf probably doesn't analyze the
underlying system that causes anorexia (as an adviser now to Gore, this
should be obvious), it is clear that we are dealing with the
Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
Just because she works for AEI doesn't mean she's wrong. But in fact
she's sloppy and devious. Laura Flanders fact-checked a lot of her
claims in her last book and found them seriously undersourced, to put
it mildly:
I would not be surprised to find
el 31 Jul 00, a las 9:48, Stephen E Philion dijo:
Nestor's sounding pretty orange these days...
Steve
Since the quip is on myself, what is this of "sounding orange",
Steve? My English is not as good as I would like it to be.
Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
Nestor,
It refers to the
Duchesne:
Now I think you're pushing the commodification thing too far. Why
would capitalisn need extremely thin women?
I am afraid you don't understand my point. Chinese feudal society did not
'need' women with bound feet. We are talking about capitalist SOCIETY. The
way a society operates is
At 06:16 PM 7/31/00 -0400, you wrote:
I see it in my own classes ... : they [college students] seem out of
place, lack confidence, not sure what they want, etc.
I'd bet that college students, both male and female, have felt out of
place, lacking confidence, etc. since the institution of
Jim wrote:
since much of the Canadian economy is owned by residents of the US, might
we think of the top 1/5 (or better, the top 1/100) of the US economy as
being the richest part of the Canadian distribution?
Not sure why we might think this way. There are more Canadian billionaires
than US
Ricardo wrote:
That's why I have started
skipping the whinny gender sections found in every chapter of
every intro to sociology text you used
I'd say that's a dereliction of your teaching duty (it amazes me that
you seem to feel proud of publishing this fact in a left-wing e-list
that is
My own view is that this problem is (partly) due to the
fact that the gay men who control the fashion are not interested in
real women but prefer them to look asexual or androgynous.
Oh yeah, all my straight male students barf when I mention Tyra Banks. But
now I see it: they're all dupes of
christian a. gregory wrote:
My own view is that this problem is (partly) due to the
fact that the gay men who control the fashion are not interested in
real women but prefer them to look asexual or androgynous.
Oh yeah, all my straight male students barf when I mention Tyra Banks. But
Actually there was serious content to what you perceived as a piece
of wisecrack. Yoshie I have long argued over uncertainty and
self-questioning. I think it's a good thing, and she doesn't. I like
to quote a remark by an Australian scholar of cultural studies
feminism, Catherine Driscoll,
The following doesn't quite answer Michael's question, but it justifies his
second concern and raises a few more about commercialisation.
Michael Perelman wrote:
If anybody here following what's going on with ICANN. I have a
question. Suppose I have a web site that the something that
Interesting, Mark. My interpretation is that markets did not emerge naturally,
although that is the ideology of capitalism. I do not mean to apply that you believed
so.
On the other hand, to denounce the ideology of the Tragedy of the Commons is not to
suggest that reverting to pre-capitalist
Greetings Economists,
Yoshie Furuhashi writes,
Yoshie,
I don't think it's a matter of whether "uncertainty" "self-questioning"
are good things. The point is that we are basically incapable of
self-criticism. We can't see our own blind spots, unless others (be they
live human beings or
So what are we to conclude?
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Louis Proyect wrote:
Duchesne:
was this study done by the same people who told us that 150,000
American died of anorexia every year (a # higher than that of
fatalities from car accidents!) For more false data propagated by
womyn's depts,
What are we to conclude? That even the Right have realized that they
need to hire women like Christina Hoff Sommers once in a while, at
least when they are putting down feminism, affirmative action, etc.
We've come a long way, baby!
Yoshie
So what are we to conclude?
Cheers, Ken Hanly
New York Times, July 31, 2000
Dejected Lobstermen Blame Mosquito Spraying in Crippling Die-Off
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
NORWALK, Conn., July 28 -- John Makowski is a fourth-generation lobsterman,
or at least he was until the mysterious death of most of the lobster
population in western Long
The Associated Press, July 31, 2000
Colombian Rebels Besiege Town
Filed at 11:35 a.m. EDT
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombian troops flew in U.S.-made combat
helicopters to a remote mountain town to battle rebels who attacked a
police station and claimed to have killed nearly two dozen
Public health vs. private medicine
Laurie Garrett, author of "Betrayal of Trust," talks about the policy
battle in America that allows disease to spread and people to die.
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By Dante Ramos
July 31, 2000 | The world looks like a scary place through Laurie Garrett's
eyes.
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