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What If the World Were Flat and Columbus Had Fallen Off the Edge of the Earth?
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As deciduous trees shed their leaves and many of us begin to brace for the inevitable cold, Columbus Day provides a nice extra day off from work to spend with our friends and family. Some of us may use it to do something active. More of us will probably just sleep in and rejoice that for at least one week in October, we don’t have to suffer from a “case of the Mondays.”
But maybe this Columbus Day we should do something different. Instead of doing the same old thing, let’s sit back and ponder a question that economist Preston McAfee once posed in a paper published by the American Economic Review: what if the world is flat and, on his 1492 voyage, “Columbus fell off the edge of the earth?” Would America still be America? And how would that have affected economic growth?
“I construct a model of the earth, in which the implications of Columbus falling off the edge of the earth can be tested,” McAfee deadpans in one of the most respected academic journals for American economists. This “highly touted” model, he wryly continues, is called FRAPPE: “Fractured Reconstructive Autoerotic Projection Package with Econometriz
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Taíno
Indigenous people deal in the Caribbean
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Ethnic group
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| English, Land, French, Nation, Creole languages Taíno(historically) | |
| Taíno (historically) | |
| Lokono, Kalinago, Garifuna, Igneri, Guanahatabey, Arawak |
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