TANSTAAFL (was: Today's New York Times)

[Jan Ivarsson]

The book is probably
Dolan, Edwin G. : Tanstaafl : the economic strategy for environmental crisis, New York, 1971, 115 p.
ISBN: 0-03-086315-5

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy Mullan" <jimmy at MULLAN.UK.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: TANSTAAFL (was: Today's New York Times)


> 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