Tuesday, December 10, 2002 :::
Incidentally, I saw the suggestion recently that GE or Boeing might want to incur United because it's a customer of the two companies — keep them alive to sell products to them, you see. (This wasn't written by a spokesman or even employee of any of the companies, or anyone with any other status higher than "yokel".) A lot of people seem to suffer a certain all-or-nothing thinking, that (in this case) leads "if customers are good, I should bail out my customers"; numbers are important, because they tell us how big a cost it's worth bearing for whatever is good. (Hence the Lomborg paper to which Steven refered, as he was able to find in our archives for me. I haven't read it, but I mean to, and I have other comments I want to make, but that will wait until I see it.)
::: posted by dWj at 1:12 PM
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