He estimates the minimum cost of an annual diet to be less than $40 in 1939 and less than $60 in 1944. His diet consists of wheat flour, evaporated milk cabbage, spinach, navy beans, pan cake flour and pork liver.
He won the Nobel Prize in economics.
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 08:26:32PM -0600, Maureen Anderson wrote:
> John:
>
> >Well, where to start taking up the points of attack against me?
>
> No one attacked you. You were mildly tweaked for suggesting that
> folks can't be on the left and ever eat at a fast-food chain.
>
> And for sounding just a bit too much like those types in line at the
> supermarket who get all indignant when they see people using food
> stamps to purchase coke, doritos, or similar comfort foods.
>
> Maureen
> who once read an interview where Domino's-owner Tom Monihan waxed
> lyrical on how poorness is an "exciting" challenge and speculated on
> how much more cheaply a person could live by shopping at a horsefeed
> store and living off a huge sack of grain. ( btw, rest assured I was
> more than happy to participate in the quite effective boycott against
> Dominoes/Monihan's conservative (esp. anti-abortion) politics. Even
> though the pizza at Little Caesars is really dreadful.)
>
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-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu