Archive for December 18th, 2009
Joke on Economists
A physicist, a chemist, and an economist are stranded on an island with nothing to eat. A can of soup washes ashore. The physicist says, “Let’s smash the can open with a rock.” The chemist says, “Let’s build a fire and heat the can.” The economist says, “Let’s assume that we have a can opener.”
The joke was attributed to Paul Samuelson, a major american economist who passed away a few days ago. As explained here by Edward Glaeser, Samuelson’s is the person who “forever fused economics with math“.
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