Happy Raisin Christmas and a Sultana New Year
OK. So it’s the time when all the old fruitcake jokes are trotted out. Journalists desperate for Christmas stories repeat Johnny Carson’s quip. “There is only one fruitcake in the…
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This question prompted much discussion on Marginal Revolution, the blog run by economists Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok. No one much liked the hypothesis of the study under discussion: that…
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