I just had to explain to a professional economist what "loss aversion" is. I never thought of that as an obscure subject within the field of economics.
I'm eleven hundred and twenty years old! Just gimme a friggin' beer!
Anya ,'Storyteller'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Typo Boy - Oct 03, 2012 10:12:54 pm PDT #21024 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Fred Pete - Oct 04, 2012 3:54:40 am PDT #21025 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I've found that it's very easy for people to slap on a big flag bumper sticker on the car or wave a flag from the car window. It isn't so easy to take the effort to make this country (or even one small corner of it) a better place.
Nora Deirdre - Oct 04, 2012 4:37:20 am PDT #21026 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
It isn't so easy to take the effort to make this country (or even one small corner of it) a better place.
Been struggling with this concept with one city, New Orleans! So, yeah, trufax.
~ma Sox!
hippocampus - Oct 04, 2012 5:49:16 am PDT #21027 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Thank you for the ~ma! outcome is inconclusive, but it was a very good conversation. Will keep you guys posted.
le nubian - Oct 04, 2012 6:05:07 am PDT #21028 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
It isn't so easy to take the effort to make this country (or even one small corner of it) a better place.
no shit.
le nubian - Oct 04, 2012 6:05:48 am PDT #21029 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Sox,
I'm about an hour late, but you get leftover 'ma which should be good for something.
Rick - Oct 04, 2012 6:39:21 am PDT #21030 of 30001
I just had to explain to a professional economist what "loss aversion" is. I never thought of that as an obscure subject within the field of economics.
For most economists, "people" exist only populations. They often show little interest in the mechanisms of behavioral choice in individuals, even though economics must, by definition, explain the aggregate behavior of large numbers of individuals.
It's a thing.
smonster - Oct 04, 2012 8:21:49 am PDT #21031 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Still goddamn nauseated. It's not too bad as long as I don't use my core muscles, which given what I do means I'm pretty miserable. Don't ever recall ABs wrecking my stomach like this.
As you were.
Also - you can't even fix one person, which is a lesson I have learned and continue to learn.
billytea - Oct 04, 2012 11:39:30 am PDT #21032 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
For most economists, "people" exist only populations. They often show little interest in the mechanisms of behavioral choice in individuals, even though economics must, by definition, explain the aggregate behavior of large numbers of individuals.
Not true. Macroeconomics deals with aggregate choices; microeconomics is entirely concerned with individual choices, and is pretty fundamental to the discipline.
sj - Oct 04, 2012 2:19:02 pm PDT #21033 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm cooking an already prepared at the market french meat pie for dinner tonight. I hope it's good.