A gave myself a couple of tasks to accomplish yesterday before the second session of my genealogy class. The first was to pick up the class packet from the copy center. The second was to pick up a Husky Card for access to the U.W. libraries. Both went swimmingly, so I got to my class early, hung out and read the text book.

The class was taught ( Read more... )

I just signed up for Macro-Economics at Seattle Central. With Hubert, the same instructor I had for Micro-Economics.

It's online. Class starts September 26. I'll tag class entries and hopefully livejournal has filtering features by then. Otherwise, if you don't wanna read a ton of classwork stuff, drop me now.

I just checked my grade for for my micro-economics class: 4.0. I'm assuming that means I got an A. Also, I now have a 4.0 G.P.A. at Seattle Central. That means my cumulative G.P.A. at community colleges (1 class at Seattle Central and 1 class at Shoreline in 1985) is 4.0, and my cumulative at regular university (University of Idaho) is ( Read more... )

(individual) Evaluate the following quotation: What the government gives it must first take away! - John S. Coleman

While not everything has a legal property right, everything is effectively owned by someone, even if just the first person who can get to the property to use it. If the government grants a right to someone, either they already have ( Read more... )

(individual) Access, read, and comment on the reading located at: http://seattlecentral.org/faculty/jhubert/sowelltradeoffs.html

Most people realize there are trade-offs to these actions. Sowell is just bitching because people don't agree with how he judges them. And he presents some things as trade-offs which aren't. For instance, it's not a ( Read more... )

(individual) If all Americans preferred living in racially integrated neighborhoods, would residential neighborhoods in the United States becomme integrated? They probably would if that were the only preference Americans held. But if the preference for racially integrated neighborhoods is only ne part of their preferences, we may have a Prisoners ( Read more... )

(individual) Should we have laws that require homeowners to insulate in order to save energy?

1. How will homeowners benefit from improved insulation? Should homeowners insulate if the cost to themselves of doing so exceeds the benefits to themselves?
   They will pay less in heating costs. And generally homeowners should not insulate if the cost ( Read more... )

(individual) Each of the ten families on a suburban block is likely to have its own power lawn mower. Why don't families more often share a single lawn mower? Try to enumerate the principal transaction costs that stand in the way of such a cooperative arrangement.

Arranging plans for scheduling who uses the mower, who gases it up, and who ( Read more... )

(individual) Should the managers of business corporations, in their official capacities, accept social responsibilities beyond the responsibility to increase the net revenue of the corporations which they run?

1. Do they have a moral obligation to go beyond what the law requires in order to advance such cases as race and gender equality, a clean ( Read more... )

(individual) What is the present value of each of the following when discounted at interest rates of 4 and 15 percent?

1. A $10,000 prize in a limerick-writing contest, to be received one year from now.
2. A $10,000 cash legacy from your Aunt Mehitabel, to be received when you reach your 25th birthday. (If you have already passed it, choose some other ( Read more... )