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Tom Au
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I took a double major in Economics and History in college in the 1970s. My "sweet spot" probably lies at the intersection of those two subjects. For instance, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" was really an "economic" admonition--to conserve ammunition.

I am the published author of "A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing" (Wiley, 2004), an (economic) "history of the future," and the unpublished author of "Axis Overstretch," an economic analysis of World War II.

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Were there women who were against giving women the right to vote?
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Is it true that there are more slaves in the world now than ever at one point in history?
Nov 14, 2017
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Why China was able to unify and not Europe?
Oct 17, 2012
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Why did the Germans spare Allied troops trapped at Dunkirk?
Aug 31, 2017
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Why did Peter the Great name Saint Petersburg, Russia with a foreign styled name?
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Why did Italy abandon its alliance with Germany in WW1 and join the Allied side?
Oct 12, 2011
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Is the USA a superpower today because of WW2?
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Why did the French sell Louisiana?
Oct 13, 2011
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Have fair-skinned peoples ever been the lower/oppressed class?
Jul 13, 2012
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What defined a Jew in the context of WW2?
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How skeptical should we be about Wikipedia references?
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Is it ethical for a PI to tell university to pay out intern's salary for an extra month after internship ends, and keep the money?
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"Race" is to "racism" as "religion" is to what?
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