Mandelbrot's first foray into fractal economics, when he was discovering ways to use computers to predict fractal systems at IBM in the '60s, had major impact on the field.

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Yet another Lindsey head-scratcher: Your chief economic adviser is just now discovering, in 2001, that depreciation schedules for software and computers are too long.

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