The economic reforms of the 1990s occurred because India was broke, not because its political class suddenly embraced free enterprise. Because nonpoor Indians have almost no ability to affect electoral outcomes, they have largely “seceded” from the public sphere… Many of those who can have left...
44 This is asked in the Cartesian spirit, where doubt is entertained for methodological purposes rather than sincerely, since I take it that the answer is obviously ‘no’. What is at stake in addressing the explicit question is a more serious underlying one: how, in detail, should ...
Question 1A:By how much would your answer to Question 1 change if this store had its hours posted in the window? Question 2:If youdidhappen to mistake this store for a sub shop, how much damage would you feel you’d incurred? (Your answer should be the number of dollars you’d have...
that you are faced with a survey question that asks you to rate your altruism on a scale of 1 to 5. If you are in an economics class, you may want to show your professor how rational you are by choosing 1 as an answer. Or if you think your answer will be observed by an experime...
Does model suffer from serial correlation? Use a Durbin-Watson test to answer the question. Yes, definitely. The value of dL(5%) is, approximately, 1.63. The test statistic of .02891 is far below this value, so we reject that ρ=0. ...
Universities will make a hash of moving online unless we answer the question: How do we learn? This video is the leadoff to a module that suggests some possible answers. We also need to know what economics is—and how it is good for. And the module that follows this video intro suggest...
In our first year, we were in the Accueil class, which brought our language skills to a level where we could integrate with the mainstream kids. The group was a hodgepodge of international students from Dutch to Japanese to West African. There was no common language, which forced everyone to...
Some have argued that that there is no need at all to answer the above question. That we are barking up the wrong tree. Here is the gist of their argument: We have left the field of praxeology [=economics] and have entered into psychology when we talk about why Smith will accept bitco...
-This is literally what the debate is about. The Acts 9 position is one which argues that this is true, that Paul was teaching something new that was not taught by Jesus or the 12. One cannot assume their position at the start of a debate. That is the Begging the Question fallacy. ...
And I think if I look back at the stuff I’ve been doing over the years, basically the question I’ve been trying to answer, from different angles and in different ways, is what is the nature of China’s system? How is its system different from other systems? And I think the reason...