THE GLOOMY SCIENCE? Members of the Economics Department have once again proven that economists do indeed have a sense of humor, at least if one can believe the April 1 edition of their newsletter. A sample item: "The experiment involving the department goat . . . has proven to be an unqualified success. The goat is tethered nightly in the faculty mail room to eat the piles of paper. Malthus (the goat's name) . . . has provided many benefits (some unanticipated) to the department at very low cost. Some examples:
Of course, no one has actually ever seen this goat, but then, no one has ever seen a demand curve either, and that doesn't keep economists from talking about it.
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BOOK SIGNER: UW staffer Bruce Taylor will be reading and signing his book, The Final Trick of Funnyman and Other Stories from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday, April 12 at Elliott Bay Books and at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 13 at Red and Black Books.
KUDOS: Ching-hsien Wang, professor of Comparative Literature, recently had his book, No Trace of the Gardener: Poems of Yang Mu, published by Yale University Press. ¶
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April 9, 1998