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For most intelligent and well informed individuals, the “dismal science” begins and ends with Milton Friedman.  Period.

As for the “sweet science” although there have been an awful lot of very good fighters over the years, the best I ever saw was Mohammed Ali.

The best boxing movie had to be Robert DeNiro’s “Raging Bull.” Hands down!

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

I think my favorite boxer was Marvin Hagler, once famously described as ‘a milk dud, with arms.’

From a Pizza Hut commercial aired the day after Hagler ripped victory from the jaws of defeat by stopping Tommy “Hitman” Hearns, showing Hagler munching casually on a slice of pizza,

“I wonder what ol’ whats-his-name is eating today?  Probably soup!”

Hagler, told by his corner that the cut over his left eye was so severe that he was in danger of having the fight stopped and loosing on a TKO, went out and demolished Hearns.

It was later revealed that Pizza Hut had only filmed one version of the commercial… with Hagler.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Ha! That’s a great story.

Economics and boxing, in that order.  Economics got that name from the earliest named economist, Thomas Malthus, who predicted in the Eighteenth Century that we would all eventually starve, because population increased geometrically, while food increases arithmetically.  I regard him as the father of the present day enviroextremist movement.

If you don’t know by now, don’t mess with it.