I can't resist adding to this conversation a poem I wrote when
I was an economics graduate student, taking a remarkably
content-free macroeconomics course from Larry Kotlikoff.
Here it is:
The State of Macroeconomics
... by 2005 consumers globally will have embraced Internet
commerce. The virtual
commercial "communes" that we see people being members of will support
and provide
recomendations of trustworthy sellers.
The large number of disparate communities will be based around a common
interest or value
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Hi folks,
The above four mail lists distributed my latest and subject post with the
body
of the message in a code which only Chris Basten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
could read. He responded as follows:
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Subj:Re: [auspolitics] Usury is a
I have used this definition in my lectures for many years:
ECONOMETRICS -- the academic's sand castle.
David Wilson
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David N. Wilson, Ph.D., Professor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Comparative, International and Development Edu
Not exactly on point but might amuse some,
ON VIRUSES AND ECONOMICS
INTEREST GROUP ECONOMIST VIRUS - Divides your hard disk into hundreds
of little units, each of which does practically nothing, but all of
which claim to be the most important part of the computer.
ECONOMETRICIAN VIRUS - Sixty p