At 04:05 AM 3/2/01 +1100, you wrote:
>So what kinda copyright does C-MEA claim here, and, when can Pen-pals beyond
>the reach of C-MEA enjoy these wild articles in their rightful and natural
>habitat, ie. PEN-L?
it's interesting that Challenge: the Magazine of Economic Affairs has the
same initials as the late COMECON (as it's called in US agit-prop).
I already posted my idea that got published in CHALLENGE and I don't see
any benefit from posting a long version. My paper is trying to measure the
true "cost of living" including the costs involving stuff that you don't
buy on the market. It turns out that the inflation missed by the Consumer
Price Index and the consumption deflator (i.e., "hidden inflation") is
positive, so that the true (cost-of-living) inflation rate is higher than
the official numbers would indicate. But don't worry! this doesn't mean
that Alan Greenspan should slam on the brakes, since only market-type
inflation is relevant to his job. (There's nothing monetary policy can do
about cost-of-living inflatin arising from reduced leisure time, increased
pollution, and the like.) It's just an exploratory paper. I hope that
someone with lots of grant money & research assistants can follow its lead.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
