Once More unto the Breach

Or close the wall without a book

It took a speech to put his soldiers to work in the Battle of Harfleur. King Henry V’s words were subsequently polished up by William Shakespeare.

In the present case, the advice of three old friends (and permission of the patient editor) was enough to send Economic Principals back to work.

That, and a concept attributed by Doris Kearns Goodwin to Barbara Tuchman: History is best when you write as though you don’t know what’s going to happen.

So much, then, for EP’s promise to resume writing weekly, in order to work off paid subscriptions. Instead, it is back to monthlies, as close as possible tothe first Sunday of each month until New Years Day, with a couple of bonus editions on either side of October 13, and the announcement of this year’s award.

No guarantees about EP’s not-quite finished book, of course. His history of the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics will, or will not, appear next year.

Meanwhile, refunds to the euchred cheerfully given.

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