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Compound Interest, the Doctrine of Equivocation, and Social Discount Rates

by John Holbo on October 16, 2010

Greg Mankiw’s recent, much derided NY Times column reminded me of a passage from Simon Schama’s Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution [amazon]: [click to continue…]

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