Jim D writes > BTW, I checked my department's EconLit cd-rom and Gary Becker's > article on the economics of suicide never got published (at least > not after 1980). I guess that says something good about the > journals. On the contrary, the journals were so steeped in neoclassical ideology that Becker's result was considered trivial. If your expected net discounted future utility goes negative, _of course_ you commit suicide. Terry McDonough
