Posted by jane d on February 12, 2002, at 17:02:18
In reply to How much are you WTP to get rid of symptoms? » jane d, posted by sid on February 11, 2002, at 10:43:40
Sid,
Doesn't this model assume that the consumer is a rational decision maker? According to this the depressive with delusions of impoverishment suffers less than the manic on a spending spree but only if that spending spree is devoted to psychiatrists, pretty colored computer generated brain scan representations and packages of expensive drugs from overseas. Anyone spending all their money on funding the start up of the next microsoft can be assumed to be feeling no pain.Hey! Maybe it works after all. But now we have to work out the effects of fluctuating international exchange rates. Any thoughts?
Jane, who took Econ 101 a very long time ago.
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