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

[rone]

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[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?