Credible Commitment
20 October 2011 at 12:04 pm Peter Klein 3 comments
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Nicki Brøchner | 21 October 2011 at 3:55 am
One thing is sure, the last girl isn’t an economist – Just think about it, getting a child is expensive just to reduce the cost of smoking ;)
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Randy | 21 October 2011 at 9:00 am
Nicki, what would you say about the marginal value of an economist’s time spent searching for items like this post?
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Peter Klein | 21 October 2011 at 9:01 am
Who’s an economist?