Free Market
Author:
Michael Levin
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The Free Market 14, no. 2 (December 1996) Last Christmas some cheeky MIT undergrads pulled one of their trademark “hacks,” publishing a report on the physics of Santa Claus. Using pseudo-precise estimates of the distance Santa must travel plus the number of stops he has to make, the MIT-ers announced (tongues firmly in cheeks) that he would be