You might be able to derive an estimate from the American Community Survey.
Go to census.gov, click on American Community Survey, go to detailed tables
for 2005. Among the tables are a long series of tables on commuting time,
miles traveled, mode of transportation, etc, for the US and all 50 state
True. Most mortgages can be prepaid by refinancing with the existing lender
with no penalty.
Virtually all have no prepayment penalty under any circumstances after 1-3
years. New loans
do entail closing costs however, usually about $1500 - $2000. But these costs
can be
rolled into the new loa
There's a book by Randy Albelda and Robert Drago that
does exactly that at the introductory level. I can't
recall the title.
Ellen Frank
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From: PEN-L list on behalf of Jon Baranov
Sent: Mon 8/21/2006 9:37 PM
To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU
Subject: [PEN-L] wages and related
What an embarassment economics is. In real science,
accuracy matters, but in economics you can just spin
theories, devise imprecise statistical tests, get
published, get tenure. This article makes me cringe
with shame at the profession I'm associated with.
Ellen Frank
-Original Message--
What's wrong with libraries becoming more welcoming and
less intimidating to students? And what's wrong with
treating students as customers when their parents are
shelling out $45K per year?
Ellen
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From: PEN-L list on behalf of Michael Perelman
Sent: Mon 10/23/2006 6:2
I am looking for good teaching materials/syllabae for an intermediate
microeconomics course and a money and financial markets course. Am
particularly interested in "heterodox" and alternative approaches.
Thanks
Ellen Frank
Thanks for this. I'm hoping to find an intermediate text that covers
some of the stuff on experimental economics, transaction costs models,
that sort of thing.
Ellen
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Robert
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 2:15
You can find the definitions in any intro business
text. My recollection is that an LLC is a type
of pass-through entity, like an S-Corp. You can't
have more than some maximum number of shareholders,
no public trading, etc and the profits are reported
as personal income of the shareholders rather
There was talk several years ago in MA about "privatizing" some
of the state highways. At the time, a lawyer friend told me
highway privatization would never work, because the liability/
litigation problems for investors would be a nightmare. I
suspect what is happening in Texas is public freeway
Well then this is of course a regressive shift, from tolls
to taxes (but are Texan taxes progressive?) I wouldn't entirely
agree with Daniel that it's akin to paying twice, since roads
need maintanance as well as construction. There is a
progressive state fiscal group in Texas -- can't remember
th
I write a Q&A column for Dollars and Sense Magazine and the Q for the
up-coming issue is ths: what's the difference between a radical
and liberal economist (or a progressive vs liberal)? Naturally I have
my own thoughts on this, but I'd love to hear what pen-lers have to
say.
Ellen Frank
My husband says the Bushites are waiting for global warming to
raise sea levels and drown most of the blue states.
Ellen Frank
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There's a Charlie Sheen movie where global warming hits the arctic hard and fast --
and it turns out that space aliens hav
Michael wrote:
I don't live in a swing state, but as the
night wore on the thought of four more years made me feel ill.
I don't actually. I don't know if a party with a genuinely "progressive"
agenda could win an election in the US, but we'll never find out with
the current leadership of the Dem
Gee, what with this election and all, I was feeling talkative
and actually sent a couple of messages to pen-l (actually
read some with Re in their subject line, a thing I almost
never do). Then I was quickly reminded of why I avoid pen-l,
one nasty catfight after another.
One of the reasons I ke
Well, one more try
Today's WSJ has a piece on health savings accounts which
states, repeating a claim made frequently about such
accounts: "Implemented correctly, they hold out the
possiblility of putting the brakes on health care costs
by giving patients more of a stake in the experience of
Thanks, Paul. This is very helpful. The only empirical
study of behavior and health costs that I am aware of
is from a real-life experiment in which a Fortune 500
firm substantially increased co-pays for drugs and found
that people with chronic conditions high cholesterol,
blood pressure, diabete
If the Republicans, with a mandate and control of all 3 branches of government, does
half of what the right has been talking about for at least a decade -- privatizing
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, eliminating taxes on corporations, replacing
the income tax with a flat tax or VAT,
cappi
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But just as a hard practical matter, since Bush's own commission on social security
couldn't agree on a plan, where are they going to get to the $2 trillion in transition
costs?
I think the answer is that they don't plan to get it at all.
They plan to cu
The idea that SS commits future generations to policy choices made
today is simply false. Because SS is a transfer program, the
transfers must be made in real time. Voters can always decide to
stop funding SS. But they probably won't because the moral claim
of the elderly is too compelling. Th
Clinton's absurd plan to commit future surpluses to the trust
fund was unhelpful, because it was economically incoherent
and contributed to popular misunderstanding of how the system
worked. But it is unfair to say he proposed privatization.
He suggested private accounts for low income workers w
The overwhelming majority of adults are unprepared for retirement, in fact. SS
replaces only
1/3 of prior wages, yet most people havene't saved enough to cover the balance.
a study by (I think) Bill Gale found that the stock crash in 2000 had little
impact
on savings adequacy for retiremen
An alternative to means testing is imposing a high marginal tax rate
on SS earnings if total earnings exceed some specified amount -
say 100K. Means-testing would greatly increase the administrative
costs of SS (whihch is now admirably simple and cheap to run) and
would encourage the kind of asset
You are assuming that SS harms families. No evidence supports this.
SS replaces only 1/3 of prior earnings on average and is often supplemented
by hefp from children. Studies show that adult DAUGHTERS give up
on average 20% of earnings to care for elders. The primarly locus for
elder care is c
Crazy, but cathartic.
Ellen
Fuck the South. Fuck 'em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave.
But no, we had to kill half a million people so they'd stay part of our special
Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want
to keep.
And now
Ann - See Diamond and Orszag, Saving Social Security which
recommends this. One caveat though. SS does not currently
have a deficit. The deficit (when outlays exceed payroll
taxes) is projected to occur in 2017. So raising the cap
above $87,000 would, at this point in time, simply add to
the tru
It's not so much that service industries resist technological change,
as that technological changes in direct service industries increase
outlays without raising productivity. Shifting from chalk-and-talk
to powerpoint, for example, raises the fixed costs of education, but
unless class sizes go u
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Actually, it just got rescheduled for sometime
next week. Not sure when yet.
Ellen
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Sent: Tue 8/16/2005 6:52 PM
To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU
Subject: [PEN-L] Ellen Frank, radio tomorrow
Ellen Frank will be on "Against th
Michael - I have tried to contact you but my emails keep getting bounced
back. Please let me know your personal email address. I know you gave it
to me once, but I lost it.
Ellen Frank
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