Re: RE: Re: Re: brad de long textbook

[Jim Devine]

At 01:28 PM 5/1/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Jim wrote,
> > After all, it's the
> > sovereign consumers who decide what
> > sucks and what doesn't suck.

Eric writes (as does Michael Perelman):
>But remember one of the key characteristics of the
>textbook market--the ultimate user (the student)
>does not pick the book. The professor does (and
>most often the professor does not have information
>about the price).

right. so that says that economics professors suck, something we already knew.

(Bumper sticker seen in Hollywood: "Mean People Suck. Nice Ones Swallow.")

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