On Tuesday 26 Jul 2011 8:18:59 PM John Zabroski wrote: > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/fonc@vpri.org/msg01329.html > [2] Scarrott, Gordon G. "From Torsional Mode Delay Lines to DAP". > http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/res/res12.htm Thanks for the link. While reading this article, I happen to stumble on the piece "The Phillips Economic Computer" by Doron Swade. What a way to get people to learn economics! E.g. ----- The Phillips machines were novel teaching aids. James Meade, then Professor of Economics at the LSE, used a Phillips machine to illustrate the destabilising effects of uncoordinated government intervention. One student would act as the Chancellor of the Exchequer with control over taxation and public spending, and a second student as the Governor of the Bank of England with control over monetary policy. Both were given the task of achieving a target level of national income. Crucially, each was instructed to ignore the actions of the other. The results were invariably disastrous. ------
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