Your book martins dream is a wonderful dream. Thank you for the book. I did something my teachers told me never to do. I a dog year some pages. Host never a better complement to an author. Host good luck with the book. Thank you for your joining me on afterwards. [applause] if you have read naked economics you know, i have a tenuous connection to mass. These books were written in part out of desperation. I had a drink earlier and we were reflecting on how we struggle in the economics and statistics class and make economics was written almost by accident i called my agent was unsuccessfully trying to sell a book on the gambling industry. A good booktv written but i said i have to teach the economic class to journalists. The textbook is inappropriate i cannot find anybody anything to see why they would have this and there was a long pause and she said he will write it and it will be called economics for poets and i will read it. That is how naked economics was born and those were scored
On how we struggled in some of our economics and stats classes. Now naked economics was wherein almost by accident in the sense i had been assigned a class to teen economics to journalists. I was unsuccessfully trying to sell a book on the gambling industry. Never got that done. Theres a good book to be written. I said to her, i got to teach this economics class to bunch of journalists. A textbook would be inappropriate. I cant find anything that would convey why they should care about this. There was a long pause, and she said, no, youre going to write it, and its going to be called economics for poets, and im going to read it. So thats how naked economics was born, once that found a niche among people who had been scared away or bored to death by economics classes, we said we being debby north top and i lets go back and do statistics which is in any ways even more mathematically daunting. On the other hand, its checks has always been economics, but statistics, just a couple of things
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