A Blog About Nothing http://www.blogaboutnothing.net Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:39:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Best Abstract in an Ademic Paper in the History of Economics Please, see it for yourselves:

http://www.princeton.edu/~dixitak/home/Elaine.pdf

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We are price takers. Even if we go now to the local grocery store and one million tomatoes, the price of tomatoes in the market won’t be affected.

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