Pat Gunning said: >could it be that your aggregation of >economists has introduced or disguised your own >contested values? Pat, I know it is unwise to answer a rhetorical question. Nevertheless, 'we' would have to look closely at a) what is being packed into the other things being equal claim; b) the definition(s) of the terms; c) what will count as 'demand', and, more important, d) to what use that claim is put. Eric