Thursday, December 29, 2011 :::
 

Happy birthday to Ronald Coase!

Things that Ronald Coase is older than:

• The Federal Reserve
• The General Theory of Relativity
• modern Quantum Mechanics
• penicillin
• Birth of a Nation
• the Indianapolis 500
• the states of New Mexico and Arizona
• Milton Friedman
• Paul Samuelson
• Alan Turing
• • Ronald Reagan
  • Richard Nixon
  • John F Kennedy
  • Scoop Jackson
• John McCain's mother
• • Harold Wilson
  • Edward Heath
• • Otto von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria and Hungary
  • Kim Il Sung
• • Tennessee Williams
  • Woody Guthrie
  • Roy Rogers
  • Vincent Price
  • Gene Kelly
  • Ginger Rogers
  • Lucille Ball
  • Babe Didrikson
  • Jackson Pollock
  • Perry Como

He was born before

• the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
• the launch of the Titanic
• the death of Gilbert (though not Sullivan)
• the first election of Woodrow Wilson
• The 16th amendment, as well, of course, as the 17th and the 18th — the beginning of Prohibition
• World War I
• the end of the Qing Dynasty
• The Russian Revolution
• Irish independence

He was an adult before

• The Great Depression
• The New Deal, including Social Security
• Keynes's General Theory

He was 33 when the Bretton Woods conference took place.

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::: posted by dWj at 1:59 AM

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