Robert Bigg

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History of Economics, and very occasionally information systems. Still looking through post-Keynesian tinted glasses: we have been seduced by the maths, not convinced by the poets.

Currently working on Alvin Hansen, Sidney Alexander, and Theodor(e) Gregory.

🕸️https://rbigg.github.io
RePEcđź’ˇhttps://ideas.repec.org/f/pbi246.html

@ia Seems to sort itself out when you install the release version.

Congratulations!

@ia Will the beta version now expire naturally, or should one remove it before installing the release version?
@davidho @tuckerm Long gone are the days of journal offprints … still have some from my supervisors and some turn up as signed copies on the rare books market.
@ia Great news and well deserved- one of my key apps on every device
@ddlevine @due One of the first apps on my original v1 iPad, and on every one since - essential and still the best imho.
@John I would also suggest that anything free, however alluring, might more easily disappear.
@ChrisMayLA6 Nothing so official, but experience tends to suggest that deliveries are not daily even when there is mail to deliver. 24/48hr parcels seem to get priority, even to the extent to sending out another van to deliver one or two items to one or two addresses. No wonder they lose money. Perhaps one could invest in a self-addressed guaranteed delivery item to force the delivery of the rest, but sadly that’s nowhere near economic!
@mwt Totally understandable… too many overlapping names and histories. Macmillan publishers a case in point. And let’s not get started on tobacco brand names, even the companies themselves get confused!
@mwt It started as a mutual but became a limited company in 1881 and listed in 1924 (so I am no way near remembering that!!). For the UK the other great mutual movement, apart from the Cooperative Society, were building societies (savings & loan) some of which still exist as such but many became banks and were absorbed by the major players.

@mwt In my mind it echoes the “Man from the Pru” who sold doorstep policies, this was something still going when I was small. Except that the titular man was to be trusted, on your side. I have no idea of the nature of those old policies.

https://www.prudentialplc.com/en/about-us/our-history/man-from-the-pru

Man from the Pru

Man from the Pru