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Article: The PC corner: desktop publishing is for economists.
- Article from:
- Business Economics
- Article date:
- January 1, 1989
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1989 The National Association for Business Economists. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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I normally do not have back-to-back guest columnists, but I am making an exception this quarter. At the recent NABE annual meeting in Pittsburgh, I saw a demonstration of desktop publishing that really opened my eyes to the potential of this approach for business economist. Back when Monsanto was putting out our quarterly Economic Intelligence Report, I can remember spending a solid week each quarter with our Graphic Arts people, proofing type-set copy and checking hand-done graphs. By the time we went to press, I was exhausted - both physically and mentally. Desktop publishing on a PC offers the potential to bypass this step completely - to go directly from text and ...