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ANOTHER ECONOMIST LOOKS AT CHRISTMAS.

January 3, 2010 at 6:19 PM · Economics

ANOTHER ECONOMIST LOOKS AT CHRISTMAS. I posted here about SCROOGENOMICS. An article in the weekend Wall Street Journal tells stories about the tightfistedness of some economists. One story: the wife of the incoming president of the American Economic Association says: “Bob doesn’t see why we can’t just hire people to trim the Christmas tree. I tell him that’s not what it’s supposed to be about.”

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Mary Jane Schaefer January 3, 2010 at 7:06 PM

Wow, is this a joke? I bet Bob’s middle name isn’t Cratchett.