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I don’t know anyone who reads Canadian economist/author Stephen Leacock these days. I can’t remember anyone quoting him or invoking him in a speech. Margaret MacMillan wrote a good short book about him a decade ago in the Penguin Extraordinary Canadians series, relating how humorists thought him an economist, and economists thought him a humorist, but s…