Economics in One Lesson?
'I blagged my way through, reading a torn-up textbook and ad libbing'
Matthew Richardson claims to know "next to nothing" about economics but, flew off to China anyway to deliver a series of lectures on global economics.
Richardson, borrowing an A-level textbook by Stephen Valdez entitled An Introduction to Global Financial Markets from a library, he felt he could "carry it off".
All went well during the first afternoon. Then, the next day he made it to the lunch break.
"The problem was that I was running out of chapters. By mid-afternoon on the second day I was already on chapter 15 of 16 and I still had the rest of the day and the following morning to go. I realised I wasn't going to make it."
It was then he decided to hightail it out of there. "I didn't like to tell them I didn't know what I was talking about. So I decided to leg it."
Read the UK Telegraph Story on the Oxford Engineering Student and Sometime Economist
Matthew Richardson claims to know "next to nothing" about economics but, flew off to China anyway to deliver a series of lectures on global economics.
Richardson, borrowing an A-level textbook by Stephen Valdez entitled An Introduction to Global Financial Markets from a library, he felt he could "carry it off".
All went well during the first afternoon. Then, the next day he made it to the lunch break.
"The problem was that I was running out of chapters. By mid-afternoon on the second day I was already on chapter 15 of 16 and I still had the rest of the day and the following morning to go. I realised I wasn't going to make it."
It was then he decided to hightail it out of there. "I didn't like to tell them I didn't know what I was talking about. So I decided to leg it."
Read the UK Telegraph Story on the Oxford Engineering Student and Sometime Economist
posted by Dust at 04:25
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