The clever Englishman was actually Irish and his name was Jonathan Swift. The modest proposal was that the Irish solve their food and population problem by eating their children. Second, way back when some clever englishman wrote an essay entitled "A modest proposal", which in similar fashion, I'm told, took classicial economics to some (horrifically) logical conculsions. Anyone know about that piece? is it "out there" in cyber spaces somehwere? Many thanks- Tom Tom Kruse Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rod Hay [EMAIL PROTECTED] The History of Economic Thought Archives http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/index.html Batoche Books http://www.abebooks.com/home/BATOCHEBOOKS/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com