oh hell.  the context is a quote explaining that an economist is in
principle interested in the relationship between the price of tomatoes and
the price of ketchup, but a financial economist is the guy who tells you
that a gallon of ketchup sells for the same price as eight pints and thinks
he's told you something useful.  But I can't remember who actually said it.
Maybe Samuelson?

best
dd



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Ok, Melvin & other penners, who said this?

"Many economists did not see financial economics as central to their
discipline,
viewing it as special relatively unimportant in almost the same way as the
economics
of ketchup, studied in isolation, would be trivial."


On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 06:14:49PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> But I think I can handle the economics of  ketchup.
>
>
> Melvin P.
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