"Alex Tabarrok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" wrote:
> Are there any good reasons for an anti-assassination policy?
Let us consider two situations:
* Not quite war (Cuba, Serbia until last week, Cold War USSR, etc.):
Killing a leader will only make him a martyr, esp. if he has a
strong popular mand
In a message dated 10/5/00 5:54:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Harry Browne, the libertarian candidate, said that the way a free society
would handle war is to offer a prize to the person or persons who
assassinated the leader(s) of the opposing country. (..)
This pr
Not that long ago there were many books and articles expounding on
how great Japan was, how the Japanese model was supplanting the US
model, the greatness of MITI etc. Obviously, all of this looks terrible
naive today. Does anyone recall some of the key examples of this Japan
triumphant lite
In the presidential debates the other night, Harry Browne, the
libertarian candidate (did you think I would waste my time watching Bush
and Gore?), said that the way a free society would handle war is to
offer a prize to the person or persons who assassinated the leader(s) of
the opposing count
George Berger wrote:
>
> Bryan
>
> I am astounded that you would rate Card/Krueger's papers as high quality
> work. If any one of us had submitted a paper to the AER (or other top
> journal) where the relevant unregulated margins that Peter spoke of were not
> properly controlled and where s
I've got a little announcement. I've just finished writing the first
version of my Personality, Politics, and Economics online test. I think
you'll have fun taking it, and it should only take ten minutes or so.
The test is at:
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan/cgi/person.cgi
P.
Bryan
I am astounded that you would rate Card/Krueger's papers as high quality
work. If any one of us had submitted a paper to the AER (or other top
journal) where the relevant unregulated margins that Peter spoke of were not
properly controlled and where sloppy data collection over the telep
Title:
Below is the abstract and link to a paper that addresses Card &
Krueger's work.
The same authors have articles on the minimum wage coming out in the JoLE and
the SEJ. [Burkhauser, R.V. ,Couch, K.A. Wittenburg, D. Who minimum Wage
Increases Bite: An Analysis Using Monthly Data from th
I've just come back to the office after a while on the road and noticed
Bryan's post on the Mariel boat lift and the response that mentioned the
Rybczynski theorem. If anyone is interested, I recently read an interesting
NBER paper on the Rybczynski theorem and immigration by Gordon Hanson and
Mat
Alexander Robert William Robson wrote:
> Isn't one of the most important parts of doing "quality" empirical work
> the proper collection of data? Hasn't it been estabished that
> the C-K failed this test miserably?
Other than the circular argument that "they didn't collect data properly
becaus
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