make-work (was Re: pre-Keynesian)

Kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Sun Sep 2 22:44:08 PDT 2001



>
>So here's the $64,000 question (in four parts):
>
>a. What year did Minnesota lose the World Series in seven games to the
>Dodgers, with Sandy Koufax on the mound?
>
>b. What did Adam Smith mean by the invisible hand?
>
>c. What did Thomas Jefferson mean by the pursuit of happiness?
>
>d. What did Karl Marx mean by surplus value?

i would suggest adding your own exercise to the list of examples of irrelevant minutiae only interesting to certain subgroups of people.

kelley



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