Faustine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's not about central planning at all. Making any policy without using
rigorous data-based research to get a sense of the way things really are
(through analysis and measurement) rather than the way your theory tells you
they OUGHT to be, is a dangerous
Tim May wrote:
On Tuesday, April 24, 2001, at 09:21 AM, Bill Stewart wrote:
Perhaps the field has changed since I was in college, but back then,
academic econometrics had the reputation of being dominated by Marxists -
. . .
I'll provide a data point about what corporations want: they
hire a
At 09:08 AM 04/22/2001 -0700, Tim May wrote:
I haven't found Samuelson's textbook useful for any of the
interesting discussions of markets, black markets, offshore havens, ...
I used Samuelson's textbooks to study micro and macro in college.
*Terrible*! Badly written, verbose, not structured
On Tuesday, April 24, 2001, at 09:21 AM, Bill Stewart wrote:
Perhaps the field has changed since I was in college, but back then,
academic econometrics had the reputation of being dominated by
Marxists -
the more-Scientific Socialists who understood that if you want a
centrally planned
Quoting Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Richard Fiero wrote:
James A. Donald wrote:
. . .
You are implying that libertarian analysis is unscientific and not
academically respectable. But much of it, most famously that by
David
Friedman, is as hard core as
Faustine wrote:
Quoting Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Richard Fiero wrote:
James A. Donald wrote:
. . .
You are implying that libertarian analysis is unscientific and not
academically respectable. But much of it, most famously that by
David
Friedman,
Quoting "James A. Donald" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
At 04:08 PM 4/20/2001 -0400, Faustine wrote:
I still think the quickest way to get a firm technical grasp of
micro and macro economics is to sit down and work through problems
for yourself with textbooks like Samuelson's and Krugman's,
Quoting "James A. Donald" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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At 08:28 PM 4/18/2001 -0400, Faustine wrote:
True, but my point was that the 'Samuelson technical stuff' has its
place.
All that technical stuff is in the Friedman's books,
I still think the quickest way to get a firm technical grasp
tion of Cooperation_.
And there are a dozen other books. The Well-Read Cypherpunk should
know something about free market economics (not the Samuelson
technical stuff taught in introductory econ classes in college), a
litte bit about game theory and evolutionary game theory, some basic
anarchist t
