--- Brad DeLong <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: > >G'day Brad,
> >
> >>> And this is different from Virgil composing the Aeneid for Augustus
> or Irish bards singing about the noble deeds of the mythical
> ancestors of their hosts or monks making up stories of the saint
> whose bone is in the wall to encourage donations... how, exactly?
Mass reproducibility makes a difference. You've written on this topic from another angle yourself.
dd
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