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 hereBob’s articles on the social function of stock speculators, futures markets, and call and put optionsTo learn more about Whole Life insurance policies, see the Foundations of IBC video series, particularly Module 3

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