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cc@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Chris Cooke) writes:

}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.

I wonder how that ratio compares to that for, say, programmers?