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HES: QUERY -- one-armed economists
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[log in to unmask] (J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.)
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Fri Mar 31 17:19:09 2006
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Herman Daly has only one arm and used to begin most of his invited  
lectures by telling about how Harry Truman wanted a one-armed  
economist who would not say "on the other hand." Herman then would  
jokingly declare himself to be Harry Truman's ideal economist, for  
obvious reasons.   
 
Barkley Rosser  
 
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