11.   Such mergers seem to pass the logic of a high-school economics course.

12.   They once even taught a basic economics course together at MIT, although they lectured on alternate days.

13.   Twenty years ago, when he was a student at Princeton, Mankiw of Harvard could not have taken an economics course in irrational behavior.

14.   Matthew Stolper said that when he was in college, he called his father to say he had flunked his first economics course.

15.   Numerous family tragedies could have been avoided if the high school economics courses had taught concepts as basic as fair market value.