Economy of Words is such a book. The weight of the evidence is truly overwhelming, and the breadth of the ethnography, both in the range of central banks the author has accessed and the range of materials and informantsâfrom academic theories to policy makers to lower level data collectors to economists to the history of economic thoughtâis breathtaking.
On February 16th 1969, Build Me Up Buttercup by the Foundations peaked at #3 (for 3 weeks) on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; it had entered the chart on December 29th, 1968 at position #84 and spent 15 weeks on the Top 100 (and for 8 of those 15 weeks it was on the Top 10)...
Our first single was a song called, It's Life (You Gotta Think Twice), which wasn't a bad song. It was a positive rap song. We made that song in 1983, and a year later we came out with another 12-inch, and it was the A-side of The Roof is on Fire.. It was called Request Line.. And Request Line was a huge song for us. Years later they started playing The Roof is on Fire, but that was the B-side on Request Line..