Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 24, Number 26, June 20
EIR Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editorial Board: Melvin Klenetsky, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, From the Associate Editor Dennis Small, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Jeffrey Steinberg, Webster Tarpley, William Wertz Associate Editor: Susan Welsh n June 6, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that the official Managing Editors: John Sigerson, O Ronald Kokinda unemployment level for May was 4.8%, the lowest level in 23 years. Science Editor: Marjorie Mazel Hecht All around the country, radio and TV commentators babbled that “the Special Projects: Mark Burdman Book Editor: Katherine Notley economy has never looked so good.” Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman Our Feature this week, is an historical and scientific dissection Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol of just how it is that people could be so stupid. We take the example, INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: not of America in 1997, but of France in 1814-15, when Augustin Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Cauchy and his confre`res smashed the great Ecole Polytechnique, Paul Goldstein Economics: Marcia Merry Baker, and introduced the virus of positivism. William Engdahl Some among our readers may complain, “But this is about math. History: Anton Chaitkin Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small Math is not my specialty! This is over my head!” Law: Edward Spannaus Look more closely. As Lyndon LaRouche writes in his intro- Russia and Eastern Europe: Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George duction to Pierre Beaudry’s
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