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)...
For the 1979 Roxy Music song Spin Me Round, see Manifesto (Roxy Music album). You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) is a song by British band Dead or Alive on their 1985 album Youthquake. The song was the first UK number-one hit by the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio. Released in November 1984, the record reached number one in March 1985, taking 17 weeks to get there.