Hey Teachers, I am about to teach a public finance course and wonder if anyone has any recommendations about texts or a syllabus that worked well. I focused on Welfare reform last time I taught the course. So far the book by D. Hyman has been pre-ordered for me, I could change it if there are better alternatives.. I would be very glad to see suggestions -- thanks in advance, Jonathan Diskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Dear Dale Wharton: The case against the investment bankers discussed by >Seldes was eventually dismissed in 1953 in a famous decision by the >infamous judge Harold Medina, who found that the 17 investment banking >defendants "went their own and several ways" and that no conspiracy was >every carried out by the defendants. Medina completely ignored the >evidence of tacit collusion and the ways in which oligopolists lead, >follow, meet prices and evolve systems of "conscious parallelism of >action" to avoid crude conspiracy and to allow establishment hacks like >Medina to protect their oligopolistic behavior. The decision was no >surprise--the system works. > > Sincerely, Ed Herman > >
