Economy
The economist who blamed sunspots for crashes
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William Stanley Jevons was a brilliant pioneer of modern economics, but he possessed an incredibly weird, unshakeable obsession. He genuinely believed that solar flares altered weather patterns, which ruined agricultural crop yields, which then dragged the entire global economy into a brutal recession. The guy spent his final years mathematically modeling sunspots to predict stock market crashes.
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