User talk:Mario Ferretti

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Sarg (Talk)

Arms of Pope Pius IX

Hello!! I saw your message on my talk page. Although I recently started my collaborations on the Pope articles, I must say taht I haven't quite made any research regarding Pope Pius IX, since my interest is only since the papacy of Pope Leo XIII. However, I can give you the page where I found the coat of arms of each pope, it is this site. There is a description of the coat of arms but it is in italian :S Hope it helps you!! Contact me if you need anything else. <<Coburn_Pharr>> 21:53, 17 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

VfD pollution

Ril enlisted Persecution by Muslims for VfD again, just 24 hours after the article withstood the first VfD. You might be interested to watch it. [1] --Germen (Talk | Contribs ) 10:31, 30 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Images

Thanks for uploading Image:Monopsony1.png. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images (on my talk page) and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, BrokenSegue 14:14, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to give up all rights to the picture you can add {{pd}} to the image page to show that want to release the image to the public domain. The Wikipedia standard copyright is the GFDL which reserves more rights for you (use {{GFDL}}). You can select the copyright that suits you best at WP:ICT (or you can just use the PD). No matter what you choose be sure to indicate that you made these pictures on all of them so we know that you are allowed to place the image under that license. This must be done for all images on wikipedia (user made or not) or else they must eventually be deleted. These diagrams are quite well made and descriptive, it'd be a shame to lose them. No inconvenience at all, I do this all the time. This link is Broken 23:07, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

RfA nomination

Hi! I have recently been nominated for adminship here in wikipedia. I would be honored if you participated in the voting! Thank you!<<Coburn_Pharr>> 00:15, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

vote here!

transformation problem

You seem to have written most of the Marxian transformation problem article. I'm wondering if you'd be interested in updating it and/or explaining why it doesn't need to be. See my entry on the talk page there for details...

DKalkin

Dear DKalkin, I'am sorry I only saw your enquiry just now and so did not reply earlier. It seems to me that your statement of Sraffa's "assumptions" reveals a rather basic misunderstanding. As far as I know, it is a generally accepted fact among economists that Sraffa's work, being static, has formally nothing to do with the determination of prices in the historical or causal sense. It is just a set of (timeless) conditions that prices must satisfy at any given point of time to be the "natural" prices Smith and Ricardo were talking about. Looked at this way, there is clearly no question of either "fundamental givens" or "simultaneity" of things. Nevertheless, it may well be that some non-expert author has "interpreted" (or reinvented) Sraffa in the dynamic way you say, and/or maintained that Marx's production prices are not basically the same things as Ricardo's natural prices, or whatever. These would be classic "tiny minority" points of view, rather like flat-earth theories, Although the official Wiki policy on NPOV intimates that all such theories should be ignored, I would of course have no objection to their proper mention within the article. However, I just happen to have no personal knowledge of such extreme oddities, nor much interest in them, and so I'm clearly not the right person to do it. Yours Mario 15:06, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. At this point, I don't recall enough of the details of what I was talking about to argue about it. As I said, I'm no expert. And the author I linked is, in fact, mentioned as a "credible Marxist" or some such in the article... presumably really interested persons could look up his work. DKalkin

David Ricardo and Iron law of wages

Hi, There seems to be a very, very widespread rumor that Ricardo adhered to a Subsistence theory of wages. I have come across this idea propounded in the Wikipedia articles David Ricardo and Iron law of wages. In the course of websearching for the original source of this myth, I noticed that you made a fine correction to Subsistence theory of wages. Do you happen to know of any good academic papers which debunk this myth? Or even reputable sources which discuss it as a myth? I'm concerned that popular mythology will only die a stubborn death. --BostonMA 01:56, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]