Jesus! That's 75 notes where I come from. Well I
suppose that's one way of teaching undergraduate
students a lesson.
dd
n Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Doug Henwood wrote:
Devine, James wrote:
Doug writes: Say Mankiw's book retails for $40, and
he gets a 15%
royalty. (Dunno
the real numbers,
From: Max B. Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:34061] RE: Re: tax theory/policy
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:55:35 -0500
career damage control.
January 23, 2003
Report: Bush Economist Hubbard to Leave
[Hmm, I wonder what the real story is here.]
[Oops, guess the WSJ goofed. Hubbard
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so Mankiw may replace Hubbard? I didn't know he was that conservative.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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From: Max B. Sawicky [mailto:[EMAIL
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34065] Re: Re: tax theory/policy
yeah, Mankiw's willing to serve power.
But remember that even though Krugman worked for the Council of Economic Advisors under Reagan (and wanted to head the CEA under Clinton), he's pretty good at critiquing Bush (version 2.0) these days.
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34061] RE: Re: tax theory/policy
He may not have been, but then you have to factor in the effect of getting
a $1 million advance for his textbook.
Joel Blau
Devine, James wrote:
so Mankiw may replace Hubbard? I didn't know he was that
conservative.
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34061] RE: Re: tax theory/policy
hey, he's got
expenses to pay!
;-)
strictly
speaking, I'm told that a publisher's advance is not really an advance (i.e.,
cash on the barrel). There are all sorts of limits on it. But I have no direct
knowledge and it would be interesting
Devine, James wrote:
strictly speaking, I'm told that a publisher's advance is not really
an advance (i.e., cash on the barrel). There are all sorts of limits
on it. But I have no direct knowledge and it would be interesting to
hear how advances really work.
Advances are technically advances
AM
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Subject: [PEN-L:34071]Re: RE: RE: Re: tax theory/policy
He may not have been,but then you have to factor in the effect of getting
a $1 million advance forhis textbook.
Joel Blau
Devine, James wrote:
so Mankiw may
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34076] Re: RE: Re: RE: RE: Re: tax theory/policy
Doug writes: Say Mankiw's book retails for $40, and he gets a 15% royalty. (Dunno
the real numbers, just guessing.)
I don't know about the %, but the book's more likely to sell for $100. (My students go on-line to avoid
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Subject: [PEN-L:34076] Re: RE: Re: RE: RE: Re: tax theory/policy
Devine, James wrote:
strictly speaking, I'm told that a publisher's advance is not really
an advance (i.e., cash on the barrel). There are all sorts of limits
on it. But I have no direct knowledge
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34061] RE: Re: tax theory/policy
the odd thing
about his advance is that it doesn't seem justified by his
abilities.
Jim
Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-Original Message-From: Joel Blau
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday,
Devine, James wrote:
Doug writes: Say Mankiw's book retails for $40, and he gets a 15%
royalty. (Dunno
the real numbers, just guessing.)
I don't know about the %, but the book's more likely to sell for
$100. (My students go on-line to avoid the retail price...)
My god. Amazon sez it's
Entire texts now exist on line, or can be pieced together from places
on-line. There are also course notes and slides from lectures that can
be used to cover most or all of the topics in a principles course. Why
make your students buy a $100 book? You would think the profs are
getting the 18
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