Re: Tax Relief for Dividends

["J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

      Actually this is even more complicated.  In the US
South, the title "Doctor" came to be more prestigious
than "Professor."  High school teachers were called
"Professor," although very rarely did any of them have
a Ph.D.  Thus, in many universities in the South, one
finds faculty members being addressed as "Doctor"
rather than as "Professor."  I believe that this is a
remnant of that older practice, which has now faded away.
       Of course in the US we do not have the "Habilitation"
or any of its cousins.  This is apparently under fire now in
Germany.
       In Russia, the equivalent of a Ph.D. is the "Kandidaty"
degree.  The "doktorat" is a something beyond even the
German habilitation and resembles the old French system.
There are plenty of "Professors" in Russia who are Kandidatys
but do not have a "doktorat."  I know that Victor Polterovich,
probably the most respected economist in Russia right now,
only received his "doktorat" in his 40s after he was named
a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
Barkley Rosser
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Bruce R. McFarling" <Bruce.McFarling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 6:48 PM
Subject: Tax Relief for Dividends


> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:10:08 -0800
> John Gelles <johng@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >It is easy to agree with Dr. Bruce R. McFarling
> >(whom, as I recall may be an American professor
> >teaching in Australia,)
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> Note that Australia never went through the title
> inflation that the US experience in the 1800's,
> so that I am a Lecturer, not a Professor.  A
> Professor is a more august thing in Australia,
> as in most of Europe.
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