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Some update notes on The Economics Pack

 
Paper:ewp-prog/0303001
From: Thomas Cool <   > 
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:28:32 +0100

Abstract:
The 1995 paper "Economics programs written in Mathematica" has evolved by 2003 into "The Economics Pack" that has users in many countries in the world. The supply and demand situation is satisfactory - with quality supply and a decent level of interest in the community of economists - but distribution remains a bottleneck. The contrast between the wonderful features of Mathematica and the distributional bottleneck is remarkable.

For the Data and Program sections of the archive, there may be a paper, paper and data, or only data.If there is a paper, see below for viewable files.

You should retreive the data or progams via the

ftp archive for 0303
In that archive look for files with the prefix 0303001 The submission (and hence data or programs) may be in:
http://129.3.20.41/econ-wp/prog/papers/0303/0303001.tar.Z
You are probably better off to visit the ftp archive itself. For most submissions to this section, the data or program is submitted as a tar.Z file. A tar file is an archive of files file, while .Z means it is a compressed file. There are utilities for most platforms to uncompress and de-tar. We usually look in the wuarchive mirror of the CTAN archive for the tar , and compress directories. For Windows we highly recommend WINZIP, found many places including wuarchive msods, in the util directories of win3, or   win95.Look for the winzip self extracting .exe file.

HTML File: (about HTML files)
      archive: 0303001.html  is 25112 bytes (not including gifs) 3-23-104.
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EconWPA began as a conversation between Bob Parks and Larry Blume on January 28, 1993. I located Paul Ginsparg's archive (then xxx.lanl.gov) and he graciously installed his software on a Sun Sparc system which was supporting the department of economics email and computation. EconWPA began accepting papers July 1, 1993 and had ftp, email, gopher and web interfaces. The web interface for submissions was engineered into existence in July 1995. A complete and catastrophic machine failure in 1999 caused the loss of EconWPA's email new paper announcment service at which time there were over 15,000 subscriptions with over 8,000 unique email addresses.

In 2005, Arts and Sciences commandeered the computing services that I had provided to the Department of Economics since 1987. Some might say that the department was sold out, others would (erroneously) claim that centralization is efficient, and still others would claim that I have few marketing skills.

I was told that I could keep operating EconWPA (as well as many other services including rfe.wustl.edu, barnett.wustl.edu, and three RePEc servers) but I would receive no support (hardware, software, or anthing else) and (as had been the case) no compensation. At that point, given the apparent low valuation of my activities by the department, and university, it made no sense for me to continue operating EconWPA or other services.

Thanks to all who have supported EconWPA in the past.

A Chinese curse states May you live in intersting times. I have. Bob Parks - Jan 2006