The Red-Green Bird, etc.

[michael at ecst.csuchico.edu]

> Incidentally, re a remark someone made about "new age bosses." It was
> California's former governor Jerry Brown, now mayor-elect of Oakland, who
> told state employees that they couldn't have any wage raises in this "era of
> lowered expectations",* but they would get a "raise in psychic income."
> 
> Tom Condit
> 
> * Does anyone know if Brown originated this phrase?

Psychic income was a commonly used phrase among some economists.  Brown
was the first to "administer" it.

-- 
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

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