> Putting professionals out of work?! This is a confused > about economics explanation. I admit people are often > confused, but we should also consider more rational > explanations. They could spend the same effort they > spent training for the race and running it doing their > usual kind of job, and then impress you with the dollar > amount of money they donated to the charity. "If I donated > $10,000, couldn't you donate a few dollars?" > > Robin Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hanson.gmu.edu
They do this sort of thing with matching donations. Some rich alumnus gives his alma mater $1 million on a matching basis. Then all his old classmates get told about his big donation. Bill Sjostrom +++++++++++++ William Sjostrom Senior Lecturer Department of Economics National University of Ireland, Cork Cork, Ireland +353-21-490-2091 (work) +353-21-427-3920 (fax) +353-21-463-4056 (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ucc.ie/~sjostrom/
