Jim mentions that Gary Becker's wife committed suicide. I have been told
this before. Did she commit suicide before or after he won the nobel prize?
maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Happiness is a state of mind. One can be in terribly unhappy circumstances,
yet be happy. It seems awfully arrogant to be shocked that poor people could
be happy. What the hell are they supposed to be or do? Sit around all day
and cry about not being rich. For the poor to spend their energy b
After the collapse of pseudo-socialism in the Soviet Union and
its disintegration and the fall of the countries of Eastern
Europe there was a lot of euphoria about the "free market
economy," liberalization and privatization, etc. This euphoria
has already come to an end and is being replaced by a
Barkley writes: >>Although pretty screwy, one could have rising
MU of money without a rising MU of income, a "Scrooge effect" as
it has been called in the literature.<<
The screwy Scrooge syndrome?
It seems to me that all this says is that the neoclassical
utility-max model can absorb absolut
I'm not sure where this thread is going. It's easy enough to point out the
absurdity of the notion that income is exogenous to tastes, let alone
relations of production and more generally social pressures. However
this is not a sufficient reason to simply discard utility theory. I
think it
Thanks go to Dave Richardson for pointing out the following excerpt from the
Washington
> Overall, he said, studies done in 43 countries found that nine out of
>10 people were generally happy, including some folks who would seem to have
>less to be happy about. One study found that 68 perc
Eugene Coyle wrote:
>In other words, the whole micro underpinning of "Supply & Demand"
>trembles.
In 1949 Joseph Schumpeter wrote:
First of all, whether we like it or not, we are witnessing a momentous
experiment in malleability of tastes--is not this worth analyzing? Second,
ever since the p
We presently have an opening for a Research Associate in our Human
Resources Policy Center. The incumbent would be responsible for
conducting research and generating funded projects in areas of human
resources policy, such as training and employment issues and issues
relating to income maintenanc
The recent discussions of MU here have led me once again to consider some of
my long-standing doubts about the foundations of our field. The basic
psychological underpinning of economics is materialistic hedonism: the goal
of life is pleasure and pleasure is obtained through commodities.
Whi
To T. McDonough:
Actually it is a discussion in ecological theory, and
so far Alan McGowen, an ecologist very active on the ecol-econ
list has not responded to my latest message. Very briefly
there is a theory about ecological hierarchies with a lot of
subpoints, such as that higher levels c
I have been silent for some time, but here I am with a query. This is
primarily to you guys on the list who know me from earlier
participation.
I have a sabbatical year from August 1997 to June 1998, where I am
financed by my university to stay at an institution of my own
preference to do researc
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1996
RELEASED TODAY: Most state unemployment rates showed little change in May,
as 40 states recorded changes of 0.3 percentage point or less. The national
unemployment rate returned to its March level of 5.6 percent. Nonfarm
payroll employment rose in 43
Barkeley writes
> Blair,
> I'll keep this offlist as I may be about to have
> a big onlist fight with McGowen about hierarchy theory
Actually, when he gets time, I'd like to see Barkeley's summary of
this discussion.
Terry McDonough
Max writes:
> To some extent I think you are right, but now we are verging onto
> what I regard as very problematic and politically dangerous
> territory -- the elitist critique of the philistinism of the masses.
> Comments -- which you have not made here -- to the effect that working
> people ar
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