but several athletes have & are running for high political office as 
Repugs.  Dave Bing, Tom Macmillan, & Bill Bradley, & Heath Schuler.  They 
are all centrists, the Repubs are not.


On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 01:44:42PM -0600, raghu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Jim Devine <jdevin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > you might say that star athletes and Goldman Sachs nabobs both are
> > parts of winner-take-all markets, where a small number of "winners"
> > reap millions and the rest just barely make it. These markets are
> > inefficient, according to neoclassicals. But at least athletes are
> > productive (of entertainment). G-S bucksbarons make no positive
> > contribution to society at all, as far as I can tell.
> 

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