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25. Dismal Science? Like many economists, Carlos Bonilla (an economic advisor to George Bush, Sr.) was dismayed b... [查看全文]
24. Black-Scholes or Black Schools? One day a certain economist, expecting no more than a dozen government offici... [查看全文]
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21. Hecht Carried His Money Through the Crash in 1929 Though he was earning $2,500 every week promoting real es... [查看全文]
20. The New President Was Bent on Shaking Things Up Having assumed office 【1】 in the midst of 【2】 the Grea... [查看全文]
19. Great Depression One day during the panic which marked the early days of the Great Depression, Keynes was a... [查看全文]
18. Social "Science"? The Nobel-prize winning economist George Stigler was once asked why sociology, psychology, an... [查看全文]
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