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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Posted by The Arthurian at 9:00 AM

The Arthurian: A hobbyist and student of the economy, I'm no economist. I got a B.A. in Math in 1970, and promptly went to work in construction. A few years later New York City nearly went bankrupt. I couldn't understand that. A year or two later the news reported that local farmers were plowing their crop into the soil, as it would cost them less than bringing the crop to market.

That's when I signed up for a semester of economics.

About the first thing I noticed was that hardly any of the graphs in the textbook were based on actual numbers. So I started going through Statistical Abstracts at the library, gathering data, doing calculations (at first with a slide rule, later with a Radio Shack PC-1 Pocket Computer with 1K of memory!) and drawing graphs by hand.

I've been into it ever since.

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