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Hey Econ Profs - Get Your Textbooks Here

D&S Admin Mar 9, 2009

An economist is walking down the street with a friend.

The friend stops and says "Hey look, a $20 bill on the ground!"

The economist coolly replies "Can't be. If there was a $20 bill on the ground someone would have picked it up by now."

That old joke pretty much describes the current mindset of orthodox economics in U.S. academia despite the current global financial meltdown, as nicely described in the NYT article below.

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