I Was Paid To Read Western Economic

To Talk About Planning An Economic System Is To Talk In Old Terms, And I Find Myself Sometimes Having To Teach Westerners About What The Market Really Means.

Then In 1969, I Spent The Spring Term At Cornell University In New York. The Invasion Of August 1968 Had Already Happened, But The Hardline Regime Took Several Months To Crack Down On Dissidents.

I Was Paid To Read Western Economic Texts. In A Way, The Regime Paid For Their Own Undermining.

To Reduce The Interpretation Of The Causality Of All Kinds Of Climate Changes And Of Global Warming To One Variable, Co2, Or To A Small Proportion Of One Variable - Human-induced Co2 - Is Impossible To Accept. Elementary Rationality And My Decades-long Experience With Econometric Modelling And Statistical Testing Of Scientific Hypotheses Tell Me That It Is Impossible To Make Strong Conclusions Based On Mere Correlation Of Two (or More) Time Series.

I Am Afraid There Are People Who Want To Stop The Economic Growth, The Rise In The Standard Of Living (though Not Their Own) And The Ability Of Man To Use The Expanding Wealth, Science And Technology For Solving The Actual Pressing Problems Of Mankind, Especially Of The Developing Countries.