TANSTAAFL (was: Today's New York Times)

[Jimmy Mullan]

At 14:22 2/01/01 +0800, Laurence Horn wrote:
>At 12:56 PM -0500 2/1/01, James A. Landau wrote:
>>In a message dated 2/1/01 7:33:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[snip]
>In fact, the acronym must have (and as I recall it did) stood for
>"There AIN'T no such thing as a free lunch", or else it would have
>been TINSTAAFL.  What we have here is another covert-prestige dialect
>borrowing.
[snip]

IIRC from my days in Economics 101, many years ago, there was a textbook,
written by a Swedish economist<?>, entitled "TANSTAAFL" (I think it may
have ahd to do with the concept of 'opportunity cost', but I could be as
wrong about this as I have been in my many economic prognostications since
;-).
Jimmy