Correct. Not only has every college text (albeit all low level ones) I've had so far said it, but every professor has asserted that "people have unlimited wants" on the first or second session.
> I haven't done a survey, but I think most textbooks are much less > careful than you'd want them to be. > > On 2/16/06, Sandwichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In correspondence with a right-wing libertarian, he mentioned that he >> would >> defend 'til the cows come home the proposition that "human wants and >> desires >> are unlimited." >> >> I corrected him, pointing out that wants and desires could only be >> unlimited _in principle_. To assert that they are actually unlimited >> ignores >> the basic condition that each desire must have a duration. >> >> But it got me to thinking that I usually hear that trite piece of >> economic >> wisdom in pretty much the vulgar form my interlocuter presented it. >> >> So my question is: do economic textbooks usually/always/seldom make the >> in >> principle distinction? Is there a "canonical" statement of this >> proposition? >> >> The Sandwichman >> >> >> ________________________________ >> Find your next car at Yahoo! Canada Autos >> >> > > > -- > Jim Devine / Bust Big Brother Bush! > > "There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying > to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil." -- Alfred North > Whitehead >
