On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Raghu, I apologize for any unkindness. As for being unfair, perhaps we > were always looking at this from different perspectives and seeing > different things. > Dear Gene, No apology necessary. Just pointing out that in this instance, we are talking past each other - and that's perfectly ok - because we happen to be interested at the moment in different questions. -raghu. > On Mar 21, 2016, at 7:56 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, but is the problem different for Per Capita GDP? What is it the > reader is supposed to do with these numbers?? Talk about how rich or how > poor a particular geographical location is? > > > > > > Gene, > > You are being extremely unfair and unkind here. I have patiently pointed > out that yes, "Per Capita GDP" is indeed different in the sense that one > can define it precisely unlike "median GDP". Nathan Tankus said it very > well earlier in the thread in case my own explanation was unclear. > > > > I have also explicitly and painstakenly pointed out that my query here > is a narrow technical one. I think I made it very clear that I was not, > repeat NOT, arguing that "per capital GDP" was a useful or meaningful > number. > > > > I see you now arguing that narrow technical discussions have no place on > PEN-L. Either that or you are asking me to defend a claim that I never made. > > -raghu. > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mar 20, 2016, at 10:16 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 12:08 AM, nathan tankus wrote: > > > "I am afraid I am still confused. My question is a purely technical > one: how do you define median GDP?" > > > > > > the point I think Raghu is making is you can assign personal income > and benefits to individuals but you can't assign plant and equipment, parks > and roads, exports and imports to individuals for the purposes of a median > measure. median personal income and median personal disposable income are > workable concepts. > > > > > > > > > Precisely! > > > -raghu. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > pen-l mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pen-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pen-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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