Brad De Long wrote: >Nevertheless, the curious thing is the fall in the average urban workweek >from 3000 to 2000 hours, followed by pronounced stickiness at 2000 >(although western Europe may be in a generation-long process of dipping to >1500)... There's a lot of curious things about the hours of labour. But the most curious is that economists aren't particularly curious about those curious things. Curiouser and curiouser. regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm