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…onsumption must exclude any schooling or nurture already counted in that investment. (Schooling counts as consumption.) Mill would have understood the human capital concept, defined by Sir William Petty nearly two centuries before, but economists only recently have begun to take...

…x post outcomes fell short of ex ante cost and expectations. Higher return means the reverse. That gives the context of Mill’s idea. And he clearly isn’t talking about growing or declining by random luck. His prime mover is “whatever increase the productive power of labor.” He kn...

…ified document revealing that the National Security Agency has secretly been gathering the telephone billing records of millions of American. The Washington Post then publishing other secret documents revealing that the NSA has been intercepting data from the Internet. June 9,...

…cern about the consequences of their actions. In Zimbardo’s study — the famous Stanford prison experiments — run of the mill undergraduates playing the role of prison guards turned into little dictators, mentally and physically abusing their run of the mill undergraduates playing...

…2.12 WC: 191694 agencies—the so called “alphabet agencies”—such as the FCC, FPC, SEC and FDA. The rest were run of the mill criminal cases—murder, robbery, rape, assault and other street crimes. It was a perfect combination for a budding law professor who was interested in const...

…cois Quesnay and the physiocrats, in Adam Smith's time, had argued too that consumption could be recovered in earnings. Mill could be interpreted that way, in his definition of “productive consumption”, as could Piero Sraffa in a paper from 1960. | thought I was on the right tra...

…e pathology is the lack of control which leads to repetitive lying over a long period of time. Compared with run of the mill liars, pathological liars often seem unaware that they are lying and do so many times a day as part of their daily habit. In the same way that birds have t...

… and of total return, and its growth and yield components, to debt and equity claims cap-weighted together? Chapter 4 Mill’s Idea 1/11/16 22 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011013

…ng any bonds). The economic data is still bad (a collapse in auto sales similar to 2009), but now it’s just “run-of-the-mill” terrible instead of “look-out-for-that-bank/country- it’s-about-to-default” terrible. What is impossible to assess: the ability of Southern Europe to with...

…correct for the inevitable lags in depreciation accounting, which gets the news only in purchases or sales. Chapter 4 Mill’s Idea 1/11/16 21 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011012

…ut, which itself fluctuates around expected norms and is sometimes negative. If a firm’s net profit (net output) is one million dollars one year, and one dollar higher the next, net profit will have varied only one ten thousandth of a percent. But if interest payments take up the...

…d show free exerts idles = productivity gain _ changeinproductivtyrate _ acceleration change in growth rate Chapter 4 Mill’s Idea 1/11/16 14 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011005

…. Same-day service. The Chamber of Commerce invites lawyers to practice there. They are promised the run of the divorce mill. More people are traveling to Alabama than ever before. They are called Freedom Riders. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015055

…nie Spinella - J 1 fees, amount and to what entities when and responsiblitis. 2. gagosian idea to save a minimum of 10 mill and maybe more. 3. ican walk you through carlyns screw up, 50 % would have made little difference and maybe made it worse . 4. we should have an all hands...

…en-Porath’s claim if human capital ended at retirement. But it continues through retirement because imputed pay does. Mill and a few economists before him acknowledged “productive” and “unproductive” consumption. The productive kind was what I call maintenance and invested cons...