ABSTRACT
Stephen Leacock published a book called Nonsense Novels in 1911. Drawing mainly on the stories in that volume (and indeed employing the same titles), and on some other of Leacock’s writings, the ensuing offerings are a retelling of the Leacock pieces, employing themes in economics and economics-related matters. It is worth recalling that Leacock himself was an economist, being, in real life, a professor of political economy at McGill University, Canada. The excuse for the present set of imitations of imitations is that the author, like Leacock, was also a professor of economics who had to retire for reasons of growing old but not (just as in Leacock’s case) for reasons of growing up.
