Dan Rempel wrote:
> declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote:
> > <newsgroups trimmed>
> > TXZZ wrote:
> >> REally, it does make sense.<snip>
> >
> > No it doesn't. As the negi explains, this is just a straight forward
> > economic issue.
<snip>
> Thanks for the thought-provoking analysis. I wonder if the hand-job
> economic metric applies to other parts of the world?

I would imagine so. During undergraduate daze I had to sit through a
few history of economic thought lectures taught as part of an effort to
produce a more broad minded generation of economists. Memory is hazy,
but didn't Adam Smith refer to a social mechanism that he called "the
invisible hand job" in his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the
Wealth of Nations?