User has Claude write a history of economic thought while he slept, economists impressed
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-25
A user asked Claude to produce a "History of economic thought since Aristotle" overnight, explicitly grounding it in his favorite textbook, Blaug's Economic Theory in Retrospect.
He reports the result was striking — good enough that even top economists would learn something — as a showcase of Claude's long-form writing and domain knowledge organization.
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