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2014 Ig Nobel Prize in Economics: ISTAT – the Italian government's National Institute of Statistics, for including revenue from illegal drug sales, prostitution, smuggling, etc., in GDP reporting, in order to meet an EU regulatory mandate.
NB @clousems
NB @clousems
Glad this is still active! Congrats @bunnyip for creating such a forum.
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And this, my friends, is why I went on a study abroad to Italy back when I was getting an undergraduate degree in Economics.
FWIW, those figures actually should be included in GDP. They are just so gosh darn hard to accurately determine, unless you go full-out Freakonomics and infiltrate a gang.
And this, my friends, is why I went on a study abroad to Italy back when I was getting an undergraduate degree in Economics.
FWIW, those figures actually should be included in GDP. They are just so gosh darn hard to accurately determine, unless you go full-out Freakonomics and infiltrate a gang.
I once saw a humorous image titled "general audience"...but everyone sitting in the audience was an army general. Very funny. Is it okay to talk about an admirals in this thread ? :]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
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Word of the week...brabblement.
Found in a short story penned around 1967.Never saw it before.Is googleable.
Found in a short story penned around 1967.Never saw it before.Is googleable.
Instead of opening countless spam threads just to say something totally inane and making yourself look stupid, do it here.
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