Submitted by Bob Lockhart on Mon, 2013-02-18 13:03
Editor's Note: this is an excerpt from the Pike Research Blog.
The story goes that a group of business people were stranded on a desert island with a bountiful supply of canned and therefore imperishable food, but no way to open the cans. As the group struggled to find a solution the lone economist in the group piped up, “Assume a can opener…”