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The following is a collection of some of my posts that can be put into a simple and quick textbook-type thingy. I am not really sure you would call this a textbook, but maybe you would.
Example 1: A significant portion of my students address me as "Mrs. ScienceWoman" despite my repeated email signatures, etc. to the contrary. On the other hand, the lecturer with an M.S. next door to me is constantly addressed as "Dr. Lecturer." Guess what gender "Dr. Lecturer" is?

I enjoyed the fact that it was Felix Salomon who said this: "Essentially the problem is that the people on the panel have internalized the principles of comparative advantage and free trade to the point at which they are more or less incapable of thinking any other way."

I doubt that 5% of humanity has really internalized the principle of comparative advantage. Felix Salomon is perhaps in the 0.1% who have internalized the principle, and come out the other side, to a more sophisticated understanding of the world.