G'morning Bob,

This and the preceding message never made it to NZ (mgs 530 and 
531 on Docs),  even though all those to or from me did. Mystery ?

 MM>>I keep trying to have basic child-rearing introduced into the
 MM>>year 0-12 curricula here  -  a very lone voice,  I'm afraid.

 VH> Both child-rearing and economics -- so they can support
 VH> their offspring.

 BK>  I wonder how many economists have trouble balancing their
 BK>  checkbooks. Just wondering.

Hah !  I once went to a meeting with the Auckland Prof of 
Economics, his chief econometician and an economist researcher to 
discuss a conference on marketing.

The prof's 12yo daughter had brought home some `new maths' 
homework that he couldn't solve and, when I arrived a few moments 
late, the three dismal scientists were deep in argument over the 
key problem.  They were covering the prof's blackboard with 
workings and hotly disputing each other's conclusions.

Coincidently,  I'd been working on similar problems to describe 
media audiences, solvable with Venn diagrams and set theory ... 
BUT there was no way that I, a puny psychometrician, was going to 
be allowed to play and the marketing seminar was put together at a 
subsequent and much friendlier meeting.

A chequebook might well be a lot less challenging to economists 
than a solvable set puzzle -  can't you zero an inbalance by 
simply postulating a rational deficit or excess blessed with a 
Greek letter ?

:-)
 
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