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<br>Economics Ph.D. (1903), Canadian Humorist Stephen Leacock. It is not on daily basis that one stumbles upon a history-of-economics arc connecting Thorstein Veblen to Groucho Marx and Jack Benny. The economist that related the iconoclast economist to these veterans of vaudeville comedy is the Canadian humorist and Chicago student of Thorstein Veblen, Stephen Butler Leacock. First I publish here some knowledge (the precise start line of my background examine of Leacock, the Chicago Ph.D.) found in the University of Chicago’s registers of its Ph.D.’s and annual catalogues. The author’s autobiographical Preface to Leacock’s biggest hit, Sunshine Sketches of somewhat Town (1912) follows. The tales themselves strike most, if not all, of the identical chords that Garrison Keillor’s News from Lake Wobegon has performed over the past decades. Finally I'll permit myself the quick-reduce of quoting Wikipedia to complete the sketch of each sides of this most interesting fellow. The McGill economics division entry for Stephen Leacock. University of Chicago Ph.D.<br>
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