... fund theory is anexample, where economists confused a fund with a flow. My instructor,Shorey Peterson, at Michigan, stressed this, but it was also my physicsprofessors that stressed to me the ... his life has been well documented in newspapers and maga-zines: While at the IMF, he was on the front lines during the Mexicancrisis, the Russian crisis, the Asian crises, and many others. ... understoodsince the days of Adam Smith. That is why people worked on growththeory for so long. The other proposition is that recessions don’t reallymatter because the loss of consumer surplus...