Re: When the juice runs short.

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, JoatSimeon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Of course, such books generally depend on ignoring substitutability.
> 
> Eg., there was a serious prediction by a Victorian economist that Britain
> would
> have to relapse into an agricultural economy by the late 20th century, because
> all the coal would be gone.
> 
It has occurred to me that Thomas Jefferson would have been appalled if
someone had prophesied that, by the year 2000, most American farmers
would not have been able to afford to keep a horse.

-- 
Chris Henrich
"Those readers who are unacquainted with the mathematical technicalities will
find that they can manage quite well by ignoring them."
    -- John Nash