Today’s gender chuckle

Reading Charles Jones and Dietrich Vollrath’s Introduction to Economic Growth.  Great book.  But.  “Gender” and “women” do not appear in the index.   Nor do they appear in the text, even in the chapter on fertility and population growth.  But gender does make an appearance, on page 258: “If Microsoft had not expected to be able to charge more than the tiny marginal cost of Windows 8, he would not have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in creating the first copy.”  As the Supreme Court recently ruled, corporations are men too!

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Economist at Santa Clara University and Director of Friends of African Village Libraries.
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