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Article #74720Re: Lawyers vs. Productivity
From: Chris Cooke
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 14:39
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 14:39
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In article <GUEST.91Feb25223801@geech.ai.mit.edu>, guest@geech.ai.mit.edu (Guest Account) writes: > "...an economist has estimated how much he thinks lawyers are costing > America. According to Stephen P. Magee, a professor of economics at > the University of Texas, American gross national product in the > mid-1980s was about 10 percent lower than it should have been. This > $500 billion annual penalty translates into $1 million per lawyer in > forgone growth." I read in a British newspaper recently that the USA has 4% of the world's population, and 66% of the world's lawyers. Draw your own conclusions. -- -- Chris. cc@cs.ed.ac.uk (on Janet, cc@uk.ac.ed.cs)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,d6c53a5c8d5e2301 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-03-06 07:55:34 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!cs.ed.ac.uk!cs.edinburgh.ac.uk!cc From: cc@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Chris Cooke) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Lawyers vs. Productivity Message-ID: <7238@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 5 Mar 91 14:39:11 GMT References: <GUEST.91Feb25223801@geech.ai.mit.edu> Sender: nnews@cs.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: cc@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Chris Cooke) Distribution: gnu Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh Lines: 15