declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote:
> 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?

Beats the poop out of me.

Dan

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