Andrew, Perhaps you should check out Jamie Galbraith's quite sophisticated taxonomic work on how one classifies industries. I don't have his web page handy, but if you search the web for his name and the University of Texas and inequality, you should locate him. Steve At 08:35 11/10/00 -0400, you wrote: >In OPE-L 4044, Julian asked: > >"Is there any reason to think that the distribution of industry OCC's (or >of firm ones, for that matter) would be Gaussian?" > >My first thought was to agree that the answer is no. Then I remembereed >to ask myself what an industry is. Realizing that industries can be >aggregated any damned way one wants, it thus occurred to me that the >distribution of OCCs can probably be anything one wants as well. > > >Andrew Kliman > > Dr. Steve Keen Senior Lecturer Economics & Finance University of Western Sydney Macarthur Building 11 Room 30, Goldsmith Avenue, Campbelltown PO Box 555 Campbelltown NSW 2560 Australia s.keen@uws.edu.au 61 2 4620-3016 Fax 61 2 4626-6683 Home 02 9558-8018 Mobile 0409 716 088 Home Page: http://bus.macarthur.uws.edu.au/steve-keen/
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