User talk:Jdevine

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Here are some links I find useful

Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, likes this: ~~~~.

Cheers, Sam [Spade] 21:16, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Phillips Curve

Nice update of the page, I'm just writing about your modification of the section on money illusion. What I was describing under money illusion there was a modification of Akerlov and Yellen's efficiency wage hypothesis developed by some behavioural economists in some papers on the subject [1]. By modifying the efficiency wage model by making the reference wage nominal instead of real, high inflation does directly cause lower real wage increases and thus higher employment. The paper I linked is worth reading, it's on JSTOR if you have access.

Psychobabble

Trickle down effect

The article exists already at Trickle-down theory. Gzornenplatz 16:59, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

yes, but it's incoherent. jdevine

I've redirected to Trickle down effect. TJP is a troll. He's also active in mangling supply-side economics and gold standard. Stirling Newberry 13:40, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

signature

You're not supposed to sign the article like this [2]. Rather your signature is here, in the history. You can sign in the talk page if you want to, it's here. Sam [Spade] 00:30, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

With the exception of the minor typos I just fixed for him, I agree with Sam. Your "signature" is already in the history page, it does not belong in the article. I found one at aggregate demand. Please refrain from doing this in the future. On the other hand, I applaud you for your contribution, even though it makes removing the markings a bit more challenging. Wikipedia always needs more contributors, but please try to follow the general style of Wikipedia. That is to say, it's better to add something that is not in proper Wikipedia format than not to add anything at all, but we would appreciate it if you tried to follow the Wikipedia format as much as possible. If you've got the patience of a saint (or insomnia), I'd reccommend reading the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. If not, just pay attention to the articles you read and follow the example. Most articles on Wikipedia are unsigned, hence don't sign articles. On the other hand, most posts on talk pages ARE signed, so go ahead and sign there. Again, it's great to see another user as active as you are. -FunnyMan 22:59, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)

Word of thanks

Since people will work for free, but not for nothing, I'd like to drop a note saying that your contributons on economics have been spectacular and greatly appreciated - the coverage of the area is 300% improved, and you're work has been a large measure of why Stirling Newberry 20:48, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The business and economics forum

Anouncing the introduction of The Business and Economics Forum. It is a "place" where those of us with an interest in the business and economics section of Wikipedia can "meet" and discuss issues. Please drop by: the more contributors, the greater its usefulness. If you know of other Wikipedians who might be interested, please send this to them.

By the way, I would like to echo StirlingN's comments above. Your contibutions are valued. mydogategodshat 18:25, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

you're welcome. Alas, with classes starting soon, my pedagogical energy will be going somewhere else. Jdevine 21:56, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

min wage article

I cannot understand this sentence on the minimum wage page. As someone with some knowledge of both EITC and minimum wage, my inability to readily comprehend it leads me to believe it must be edited to be understood by the common reader.

"One possibility that needs to be examined is that the EITC may lead to the depression of pre-subsidy wages, so that the net gain by the working poor is very small."

In general, I would like to thank you for your contributions to the minimum wage article.

--LegCircus 20:37, Aug 30, 2004 (UTC)

I'll re-write it. And you're welcome. Jdevine 22:56, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

You rewrite is appreciated. If you haven't already, you should check out the EITC article.

--LegCircus 23:35, Aug 30, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the lead. it's pretty good. Jdevine 17:48, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I meant that you should work on the EITC article. You seem quite knowledgeable. Once again let me thank you for your work on the minimum wage article.

--LegCircus 22:44, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do. I'm cutting out most of my Wiki-work, since my salaried work is ramping upward. Jdevine 16:00, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

LTV

Good job on the Labor theory of value entry...the article was really junky before you started editting it ("The labor theory of value is an obsolete theory in economics once used to justify private property."..."Marx, in particular, demonized factory owners who profited by selling what laborers produced as thieves.") -- Ruy Lopez 22:03, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. By the way, do you play chess? (I know, you've heard that one.) Jim 15:42, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)

Homo economicus

Excellent work on that article. The "advanced-level work" needs some fleshing out, though: Contending that improved models render criticism invalid but implying access limited to graduate students is not nice. The quote ("Real people do not have cost-less access to infinite information and an inbuilt ability to process it, in no time at all.") indicates that you are considering bounded rationality there. Correct? Either way, we need at least some keywords so people can look it up and/or add the respective information to WP.

For what it's worth, at least some of the critics (e.g. Bruno Frey, whom I know personally), have remained critics despite (or because of) their being familiar with advanced models.Rl 21:10, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I've modified the entry in light of these comments. Jim 18:57, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)

Image tags

Thank you for adding many great diagrams to Wikipedia. However, you have not marked what license they are released under. It would be great if you could do so. For a full list of possible copyright tags see Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. I gather you created them all yourself so the most common option would be to release them under the GFDL by adding the {{GFDL}} tag to each image page. Below is a list of the images you have uploaded to aid you in tagging them. - SimonP 23:19, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the list! I've added

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

If this file is eligible for relicensing, it may also be used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.
The relicensing status of this image has not yet been reviewed. You can help.

to all but one, the one that was generated by the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics (Urate48-04.jpg). What kind of copyright should I assign it? Jim Jim 18:53, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)