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The Economics of Teeth Brushing
adam. was thinking, you know, personally, i guess i would rather have a beer with sort of earlier humanistic economists than the presentations one might come across an academic conference to day. Allan blinder, the the princeton economist who was vice chair of the fed under allen greenspan when janet yellen was also cutting her teeth. And he did this classic paper from 19 74 on the economics of teeth brushing. Is an extended parody on the human capital theory and includes references to fake papers that compare the habits of longshore men in dental hygiene with those of matched twins. The killer of all is the the confident and precisely quantified prediction that news anchors are likely to spend approximately