Forstater, Mathew wrote:

>But with the
>modeling thing, I think it's hopeless.

I think I said this before, but I'll say it again because it's so 
good. The day Pinochet was arrested, a friend who's an economics grad 
student at Chicago saw a professor busily scribbling mathematical 
notation in the library. Asked what he was doing, the prof said he 
was trying to model the effects of arrest risk on policy choices. If 
Pinochet had known he would be arrested, he might not have made the 
right policy decisions, and that had to be modeled and quantified.

Doug

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