> Ben Stien played an economist in the movie "Ferris Bulers Day Off"
>
> At 12:36 AM 3/13/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >>A meme, then,
> >>is something that tends to align nearby vectors?
> >
> >I am not a mathematician, nor do I play one on TV (does anyone?), but
> >this sounds promising.
>
> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -
> Clarke's Third Law.
Ben Stein is an economist. I'm pretty sure. He worked for Nixon's
administration. He's also the co-editor of some big fancy
economy/legal/somethingorother journal.
-Paul Prestopnik