Summary: Someone at world bank has a "mental exercise" based on a supposition that subtracts an assumption from the estimate of another group of researchers based on several abstractions applied to a number of estimates.
I used to wonder how I got so lucky -- to live in an era where we no longer bleed people for ailments. Nowadays, I sometimes wonder if we'd be better off having physicians bleed people with leeches instead of having bankers and economists bleed the world with finance.
I used to wonder how I got so lucky -- to live in an era where we no longer bleed people for ailments. Nowadays, I sometimes wonder if we'd be better off having physicians bleed people with leeches instead of having bankers and economists bleed the world with finance.