An interesting interview (the second half of the programme) where David Graeber describes his anthropological study of 5,000
years of Debt which shows that dispensing credit precedes even the
invention of money.
Hear the interview at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0196rp1
See the book:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GYhajCQU8XIC
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Econometrics — the hope that never came true
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from Lars Syll In 1958, with the publication of the twenty-fifth volume
of Econometrica, Trygve Haavelmo assessed the role of econometrics in
advancing eco...