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Re:The decline of unfettered research (1995) by akoluthic on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:17PM (#29153046)
Wow, what a diverse body of work. Could you give an example of a paper that you feel fits your description of having "almost never even been properly formulated before"?
Re:The decline of unfettered research (1995) by paganel on Monday November 08, 2021 @06:48PM (#29155873)
> what a diverse body of work

Indeed, for example this page [1] is absolutely fantastic, it hits a lot of right buttons in my case (history of railways, history of finance/economics, a combination between history of railways and the history of finance, which is even more interesting).

[1] http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/bubbles.html

Re:The decline of unfettered research (1995) by pottertheotter on Monday November 08, 2021 @09:40PM (#29157079)
I was also in need of some 1990's WWW nostalgia tonight, which this website provided.