I recently attended a history of economic thought conference in Toronto. Judy Klein, who has unremarkable work about the overwhelming influence of military thought on both economics and mathematics, has used the crude computers that military could in its fighter craft during World War II as a way of demonstrating that relationship. For example, rational expectations comes directly out of the server mechanisms that the gunners used.
She wanted to take her computer to the conference, but she knew that she would come to problems as a potential terrorist. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
