Bill Phillips & His Curve
Debunking Economics - the podcast
The Manic Mechanical and Electronic Models of the Economy
Nick Bostrom was a self-trained engineer. He also tried to turn a bus into a boat to escape an island in World War II. In 1956, he pulled together data series from mainly unions on how many members had jobs and didn't. And then he fitted the data points using a hand-operated calculator. It sounds like you've got about 80 years of data but it's really more than that.
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