Bob elaborates on two ideas he had when he wrote his novel "Minerva" in grad school.

Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:

• Bob’s archives at Strike the Root, which contain the serialized version of Bob’s novel, Minerva. (Note that the HTML formatting is incorrect for some characters, such as the em-dash turning up as an apostrophe.) A listener compiled a PDF version of Minerva here
• Bob’s articles on the social function of stock speculators, futures markets, and call and put options
• To learn more about Whole Life insurance policies, see the Foundations of IBC video series, particularly Module 3

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