NPR (Alex Mayyasi) - How Bill Phillips used flowing water to model the economy
Bill Phillips was an outsider to economics, but he used a machine and a chart to change the way we think about the government's role in a capitalist economy.
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NYTIMES (James R. Hagerty) - Christopher A. Sims, 83, Dies; Won Nobel for Modeling Economic Policy
He and Thomas J. Sargent shared the prize in 2011 for devising statistical tools to help guide economic policymakers.
WASHINGTONPOST (Harrison Smith) - Raised in the segregated South, Gladys West was a hidden figure behind GPS
Without the mathematical model that she helped refine, “the extraordinary positioning, navigation, and timing accuracy of GPS would be impossible to achieve.”