“If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).”

"Recession Economics," New York Review of Books, Volume 29, Number 1 (4 February 1982)
Context: Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy— what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

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American economist and diplomat 1908–2006

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