Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Markets and socialism

2000-07-16 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day, Michael, Sez you: Wow! Summers has discovered Schumpeter! Geez, I'd love to know where Schumpeter says that stuff about monopoly rents being requisite for investment! I'd missed that in my vulture-pecking of the great man's corpus, and it'd fit some stuff I'm writing on

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Markets and socialism

2000-07-16 Thread Michael Perelman
It is a major theme of his Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Rob Schaap wrote: G'day, Michael, Sez you: Wow! Summers has discovered Schumpeter! Geez, I'd love to know where Schumpeter says that stuff about monopoly rents being requisite for investment! I'd missed that in my

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Markets and socialism

2000-07-16 Thread Rob Schaap
Glad it was only a major theme - else I'd be a bit embarrassed at missing it ... Glowing redly, Rob. It is a major theme of his Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Rob Schaap wrote: G'day, Michael, Sez you: Wow! Summers has discovered Schumpeter! Geez, I'd love to know where

Re: Re: Re: Re: Markets and socialism

2000-07-14 Thread Michael Perelman
very much so, but not to market research, but to market-oriented research. Jim Devine wrote: Bell Labs was a major innovator for many decades, but as soon as the phone companies were broken up, Bell Labs switched to market research from pure science or engineering. so Lucent (nee Bell

Re: Re: Re: Re: Markets and socialism

2000-07-14 Thread Michael Perelman
Wow! Summers has discovered Schumpeter! Eugene Coyle wrote: Larry Summers has discovered "the new natural monopolies" -- where monopoly profits are required to motivate investment. See his speech in early May -- "The New Wealth of Nations" Remarks by Treasury Secretary Lawrence H.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Markets and socialism

2000-07-14 Thread JKSCHW
No. You can use it, but it's public domain. I'd appreciate acknowledgements if it's that good. --jks "... as usual with planned economies, no good and accurate information was available." Oh, that's cruel! Oh, that's mean! I'm going to have to remember that. May I purchase intellectual