http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/06/establishing-barriers-to-entry.html Advancing liberty with responsibility by promoting market solutions for Missouri public policy Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:56:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/06/establishing-barriers-to-entry.html/comment-page-1#comment-2952 vroman Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:24:52 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=5282#comment-2952 assume there is positive corelation between total number of archaeologists and both world income and population. more ppl means more universities, each needing an archaeology dept, and more money means more ppl able to specialize labor in a non-productive activity like digging up pot sherds. so rising # of archeos. also the total amount of academically noteworthy objects in the ground is either fixed or growing very slowly on a decade-scale process. so surely we are rapidly approaching Peak Artifacts, after which the marginal utility of each new archaeologist falls quickly below zero. assume there is positive corelation between total number of archaeologists and both world income and population. more ppl means more universities, each needing an archaeology dept, and more money means more ppl able to specialize labor in a non-productive activity like digging up pot sherds. so rising # of archeos. also the total amount of academically noteworthy objects in the ground is either fixed or growing very slowly on a decade-scale process. so surely we are rapidly approaching Peak Artifacts, after which the marginal utility of each new archaeologist falls quickly below zero.

]]> http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/06/establishing-barriers-to-entry.html/comment-page-1#comment-2912 David Stokes Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:06:16 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=5282#comment-2912 This story is just sad. I would not be surprised at all if these archaeologists hired a lobbyist to institute statewide licensure of archaeology. This story is just sad. I would not be surprised at all if these archaeologists hired a lobbyist to institute statewide licensure of archaeology.

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