Re: Keynes in China

2001-02-05 Thread markjohn®
but being in china for 2 summers. as i can see that as time goes on, they're becoming a bit more liberal on things At 06:20 PM 2/4/01 -0800, you wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, fabio guillermo rojas wrote: A new graduate student in my department told me that at Beijing University, econ

Re: lobbying as a public goods problem

2001-02-05 Thread Alex Tabarrok
Wei wrote "Reading Jonathan Rauch's _Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1891620495) made me wonder how special-interest lobbies solved the public goods problem." See Mancur Olson's The Logic of Collective Action and The Rise and Fall of

Re: Externalities, Coase

2001-02-05 Thread Robin Hanson
Alex Robson wrote: I have been having a running argument with someone about externalities. My argument was that, even if Coasian bargaining were to take place, the externality doesn't go away - it still exists [in the sense that one person's action directly enters the utility function of the