Yoram Ben-Porath quoted it in his review of Becker's TREATISE ON THE FAMILY in the March 1982 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE. Samuelson said it in "An Economist's Non-Linear Model of Self-Generated Fertility Waves" in POPULATION STUDIES, July 1976 (vol. 30, no. 2), p. 244.
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> Could you please give us the source of the quote?
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> --- "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: >
> Paul Samuelson sneers at the "sterile verbalizations
> > by which economists
> > have tended to describe fertility decisions in terms
> > of the jargon of
> > indifference curves, thereby tending to intimidate
> > non-economists who have
> > not mis-spent their youth in mastering the
> > intricacies of modern utility
> > theory."
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