"There Ain't No Such Thing as Free Lunch" (1938)

[James Smith]

Well ... don't leave us hanging; what's the joke?

James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
                               |or slowly and cautiously.


--- On Mon, 3/2/09, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:

> From: Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
...I report that an
> article titled "Economics in Eight Words" in the
> El Paso Herald-Post, June 27, 1938, p. 4, used "There
> ain't no such thing as free lunch" as the punch
> line of an economics joke.
>
> Fred Shapiro

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