Silly Little Country

Things I would like to do in retirement

When Teddy Lucic (what a great Swedish name) was red-carded in yesterday's World Cup match, I asked myself, "What effect does this really have?" And I must say I was not really surprised to find that Chris Dillow had an answer for me this morning.

As is to be expected, he also has a wonderful question, that unsettles me a little:

If the marginal product of a footballer in the second half of a game is zero, what other workers have zero marginal product?

posted by Alan Adamson @ 7:49 AM