Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
He halts, and searches with his eyes
Among the scatter'd rocks:
And now at distance can discern
A stirring in a brake of fern […]
Placing his hand on the doorknob he could hear his father's indignant voice: If he's no job he can damn well sling his hook, he's not living under my roof free gratis, I want him out.
So is Whet Moser simply a nom de clavier? There seems to be a real Marooner by that name (different bio from Mo's).