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- From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
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- Subject: Re: Will Shetlanders pay?
- Message-ID: <8119@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 11:22:52 GMT
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- In article <8100@skye.ed.ac.uk> ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk I wrote:
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- # Meanwhile the Danish Kroner would collapse because the sum we originally
- # paid for the Shetlands, plus compound interest, would probably be
- # greater than the sum of all the money in the European Community.
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- But if you think about the opportunity costs, it would probably be
- cheaper to give the Shetlands back to the Danes than to clean up the oil
- spill.
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- Economically and with truth, Ken Johnson
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