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When I was first approached by a magazine editor to write a brief article for the layman on the tax stimulation theories elucidated by Professor Gold and myself, I had serious doubts. But he assured me that the recent awarding of the Nobel Prize to Dr. Gold and me had created some little popular interest in our contribution to economic theory, and he was in the end sufficiently persuasive.

So with misgivings, and yet with high hopes for initiating a few of the public into that select group that can find excitement in statistics as they relate to large numbers of people, I have written this necessarily brief presentation of our work, attempting to achieve an acceptable balance of simplicity, lucidity, and completeness. I do not know how well I have succeeded.

SG

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Samuel W. Gunnarson

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When I was first approached by a magazine editor to write a brief article for the layman on the tax stimulation theories elucidated by Professor Gold and myself, I had serious doubts. But he assured me that the recent awarding of the Nobel Prize to Dr. Gold and me had created some little popular interest in our contribution to economic theory, and he was in the end sufficiently persuasive.

So with misgivings, and yet with high hopes for initiating a few of the public into that select group that can find excitement in statistics as they relate to large numbers of people, I have written this necessarily brief presentation of our work, attempting to achieve an acceptable balance of simplicity, lucidity, and completeness. I do not know how well I have succeeded.