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The Niceties Of Existence Were Not A Matter Of Concern, Yet Everything Around Was Closed Down Most Of The Time. If You Lived In A Middle-class Community In Chicago, Children And Adults Came Daily To The Door Saying, 'we Are Starving, How About A Potato?' I Speak From Poignant Memory.

Econometrics May Be Defined As The Quantitative Analysis Of Actual Economic Phenomena Based On The Concurrent Development Of Theory And Observation, Related By Appropriate Methods Of Inference.

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An American Economist Of Two Generations Ago, H. J. Davenport, Who Was The Best Friend Thorstein Veblen Ever Had (veblen Actually Lived For A Time In Davenport's Coal Cellar) Once Said: "there Is No Reason Why Theoretical Economics Should Be A Monopoly Of The Reactionaries." All My Life I Have Tried To Take This Warning To Heart, And I Dare Call It To Your Favorable Attention.

The Sad Truth Is That It Is Precisely Those Who Disagree Most With The Hypothesis Of Efficient Market Pricing Of Stocks, Those Who Pooh-pooh Beta Analysis And All That, Who Are Least Able To Understand The Analysis Needed To Test That Hypothesis.