Comments on: The thriving Massachusetts economy http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2008/10/01/the-thriving-massachusetts-economy/ A posting every day; an interesting idea every three months... Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:00:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: GB http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2008/10/01/the-thriving-massachusetts-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-89109 GB Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:32:24 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/?p=1100#comment-89109 Unfortunate. But it is all relative we are looking at moving back to MA from VT because the economic opportunities in the Boston area far outstrip anything VT will have in the next 40 years. We tried the cheaper housing/lower wage living and it doesn't work at least not up here. Granted the COL is fairly high in VT and the wages abysmal. Perhaps it works elsewhere but I'm not so sure. I'll take the expensive metro area with at least the possibility of high pay. Unfortunate. But it is all relative we are looking at moving back to MA from VT because the economic opportunities in the Boston area far outstrip anything VT will have in the next 40 years. We tried the cheaper housing/lower wage living and it doesn’t work at least not up here. Granted the COL is fairly high in VT and the wages abysmal. Perhaps it works elsewhere but I’m not so sure. I’ll take the expensive metro area with at least the possibility of high pay.

]]> By: Jim Howard http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2008/10/01/the-thriving-massachusetts-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-89107 Jim Howard Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:36:31 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/?p=1100#comment-89107 Here in Austin my startup can't find an experienced LAMP programmer to interview, let alone hire. All the experienced LAMP developers have jobs. House prices have stabilized, but have not declined, because they never spiked. How any rational person can look at places like Detroit, Chicago, New Orleans, Massachusetts, or Michigan and then vote to turn management of the whole government to the same people who run those places is beyond me. Here in Austin my startup can’t find an experienced LAMP programmer to interview, let alone hire. All the experienced LAMP developers have jobs.

House prices have stabilized, but have not declined, because they never spiked.

How any rational person can look at places like Detroit, Chicago, New Orleans, Massachusetts, or Michigan and then vote to turn management of the whole government to the same people who run those places is beyond me.

]]> By: Luke http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2008/10/01/the-thriving-massachusetts-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-89091 Luke Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:13:56 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/?p=1100#comment-89091 The recession that we're probably in is affecting the whole country. In fact, it appears to be turning into a global slowdown. A number of warm and hot states, such as California and Florida, will actually suffer much more than Massachusetts over the next year because real estate is a bigger part of the economy in those places. It's interesting that people think that the climate in MA is bad for the economy. I remember reading a special survey that the Economist magazine ran about 20 years on the New England economy. The writer thought that the cold weather was a benefit because it forced people to stay inside and thus put in more time at work. On the other hand, if the climate in Massachusetts really is a drawback, maybe it's a mistake for the state government to enter into compacts with other states to reduce carbon emissions. Perhaps of few degrees of global warming would make the winter more tolerable. The recession that we’re probably in is affecting the whole country. In fact, it appears to be turning into a global slowdown. A number of warm and hot states, such as California and Florida, will actually suffer much more than Massachusetts over the next year because real estate is a bigger part of the economy in those places.

It’s interesting that people think that the climate in MA is bad for the economy. I remember reading a special survey that the Economist magazine ran about 20 years on the New England economy. The writer thought that the cold weather was a benefit because it forced people to stay inside and thus put in more time at work.

On the other hand, if the climate in Massachusetts really is a drawback, maybe it’s a mistake for the state government to enter into compacts with other states to reduce carbon emissions. Perhaps of few degrees of global warming would make the winter more tolerable.

]]> By: Erica Douglass http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2008/10/01/the-thriving-massachusetts-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-89053 Erica Douglass Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:08:37 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/?p=1100#comment-89053 Ah, yes. The broken window fallacy. Always a fun (if facetious) argument. ;) http://mises.org/story/2868 -Erica Ah, yes. The broken window fallacy. Always a fun (if facetious) argument. ;)

http://mises.org/story/2868

-Erica

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