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[log in to unmask] (Perry Mehrling)
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Thu Sep 20 07:17:35 2007
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Anthony Waterman  wrote:
> Am I doing 'history'? I don't really care whether that's what 
> you call it or not. What I am interested in is tactics, and if by making 
> rational reconstructions of byegone battles I can learn things that will 
> make me a better tactician, that's what I'm going to do. 
> 


In war, we know which side we are on so the only thing that matters is tactics.  In economics, do we know in advance what side we are on?  

Perry Mehrling

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