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Business Roundtable Perspectives No. 129 Oct. 07

NZ Business Roundtable - Perspectives
No. 129 October 2007

De Minimis
By Allen R. Sanderson
11 October 2007
Basic economic course instruction and the discipline's logic begin with some universal "givens": seemingly unlimited human wants pitched against a world of apparent finite resources, and thus we are forced to make choices, sometimes difficult choices.
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This article was first published in The Library of Economics and Liberty online on 3 September 2007
Articles in the Perspectives series plus a large library of books, studies, speeches, articles and DVDs on a wide range of public policy issues can be found at www.nzbr.org.nz


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