"[The horse-sparrow theory:] If you feed the horse enough enough oats, some will be left on the road for the sparrows."
--John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg professor of economics emeritus, in a "Social Analysis 10: Principles of Economics" lecture yesterday, sardonically analogizing the theory of trickle-down economics.
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