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Forbes and the "Self-Made" Label

by cactus Forbes and the “Self-Made” Label I’m kinda busy these days, but this topic is small pet peeve of mine: what the heck is up with Forbes and the…

Off label drug pushers

…have to submit articles.” Off-label use of drugs is big business. According to The Wall Street Journal, “[FDA] is stepping into a high-stakes business issue, because off-label uses of prescription…

General Equilibrium Theory by Popular Demand

…of tastes technology and endowments the market outcome(s) isn’t (aren’t) constrained Pareto efficient, then there is a change in endowments so tiny that, after the change in endowments, the new…

Mike sends a response to rdan on off-label drugs

…unreasonable cases, but if it is reasonable that the off-label use of the drug might have caused the damage, then the encouraged off-label use would lead to an assumption of…

General Equilibrium theory and Finance

…models have 2 periods (I think this assumption isn’t really restrictive). In period zero people start with endowments of fruit trees. They trade them. One can short sell a fruit…