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Tue 17 Feb, 2009 01:47 pm
they're breaking out all over the damn place....do I need to be vaccinated?
Are you circumcised?
Super-sized?
@Bi-Polar Bear,
Bear, it's an economic theory by Keynes. The propensity to consume measures the state of the economy based on a certain formula. I can't believe that I remember that from undergrad school.
@Letty,
Tst, tst!
It's a town where people are in favor of a writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
(pro pen city).
@Francis,
a city that is penned in, thus cities that built walls around themselves through the ages; for example, Lucca. These cities thus circumscribed themselves.
@Bi-Polar Bear,
It's a term largely used by economists to show how smart they are. It also avoids the responsibility for making a real prediction. Economists and psychologists are notoriously weak on predictions, but great at explaining why things happened that differed from their predictions.