i'd be surprised if someone hasn't already thought of this

[rone]

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[xlerb.livejournal.com]

I thought of it a week or two ago, in fact — inspired by some of the traffic on r6rs-discuss, of all things.

But I didn't actually do it.

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

I hate you Milkman Ron.

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Too subtle. You need to manip it look like this:



(Phantom Limb from the Venture Bros. cartoon)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Too obvious. How can Adam Smith be too subtle? What the hell are they teaching kids in school these days?

[thedarkages]

AMEN. At my high school, we read Wealth of Nations in eighth grade, and I don't mean potted excerpts.

Most people I talk to think that Ricardo was Lucy's husband.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Geebus! That book is immense! I had the etext in Word, once, and I changed all the words "labour" to "labor" and the etext shortened by 8 pages..

[thedarkages]

You're right; we must have read an abridgment. But we didn't just have single paragraphs on yhe invisible hand, etc. We had to peel the concepts out of the text.

I have to confess

[notr.livejournal.com]

it took about 6 seconds of wondering why it wasn't Napoleon before I was struck down ROTFLMAO.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Marxism, presumably.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Groucho or Richard?

[reddragdiva]

Send it to loltheorists.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

And if you don't I will, dammit.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

By all means, go for it.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

You get all the credit/blame.
http://community.livejournal.com/loltheorists/77553.html

hah!

[madmerle.livejournal.com]

I counter you with Herman E. Daly (http://www.puaf.umd.edu/facstaff/faculty/Daly.html) and his invisible foot:

Adam Smith's "invisible hand" leads private self-interest unwittingly to serve the common good. The "invisible foot" leads private self-interest to kick the common good to pieces. Private ownership and private use under a competitive market give rise to the invisible hand. Public ownership with public restraint on use gives rise to the invisible hand (and foot) of the planner. Depletion has been partially restrained by the invisible foot. It is therefore not surprising to find limits occurring mainly on the pollution side.

Excerpted from Towards A New Economics: Questioning Growth (http://dieoff.org/page41.htm).

Yes, I can be pedantic on occasion...

Invisible foot

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Pedantic? Pedalantic? Podiatric? ... uh, damn, thought there was a around pun there.

Nothing to see. Keep moving.

Re: Invisible foot

[madmerle.livejournal.com]

Podiatric!! LOL!!! Mad props.

Well if I'd REALLY been on my game instead of underawake (underfoot? undertoe? Yeah, that's it: Taking a break from economics, the invisible undertoe located just off the beach of my consciousness didst kick my brain unto the depths of Morpheus, where verily it tried to insert itself into my ear and wiggle furiously, causing distraction and annoyance.), I'da thot of that one, but thanks for thinking of it for me.

This is sounding more and more like a foot fetish...

Re: Invisible foot

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

for added advantage in the game, you should ask her about "FrankenFoot" when they were working on the side effects of the RA...

Ah how Podiatric is the Invisible Foote Of The Market Place.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

"Questioning Growth" makes me think about a curious tumor.

[coldsleep.livejournal.com]

Heh. Good stuff.

[sandollar17.livejournal.com]

ADAM SMITH! Oh how clever . . .