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Ephie's avatar

I enjoy your “rambling.”

I had added Maiklem’s book to my “Books to Read” list when I read a review of it in the Wall Street Journal back in 2019. I was reminded of it when I read about the London Museum exhibit.

I read Helen Castor’s The Eagle and Hart and loved it. I have bought her She-Wolves to read over the summer.

She had a great discussion with Henry Oliver in May

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-reader/id1638677512?i=1000708899181

I am looking forward to an upcoming conversation she is having with Tyler Cowen.

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Vernon Smith's avatar

Cotton hoeing reminds me that I had a lone black classmate in graduate economics at Harvard, 1952-55, the first who headed a venerable tradition that changed the professional and academic worlds. President Johnson appointed him to the Federal Reserve Board (1966-1974).

Somehow, Andy miraculously got an education, found his way into Doug North's class at University of Washington and Doug got him into Harvard. Not everyone at Harvard was comfortable with Andy there, but we became friends. I was raised by a socialist, anti-racial discrimination, anti-war activist mother so I was proud of Andy.

https://www.federalreservehistory.org/people/andrew-f-brimmer

He had a lovely wife, Doris, and a daughter DR Esther Brimmer who has had a distiguished career in public policy and US Foreign Relations.

https://www.cfr.org/expert/esther-brimmer

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