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Author: Edward Tesler

Edward Tesler was born in 1930 in Ural Mountains Region, USSR. He holds a master of science degree in engineering, a PhD in economics, and a Sr. Fellow rank in applied mathematics. In Stalin’s era, Tesler was an engineer in Siberia and later the head of an economic research laboratory and a chief scientist of an automated management project for the Baltic region. Tesler immigrated to America in 1980. He worked as an analyst and consultant in the private sector and also for the federal government. He was a member of Ronald Reagan’s Presidential Task Force. Tesler was awarded the Medal of Merit and authored Y2K software (self-published, 2019).

The Long View
Immortality: The Ticket to Survival
Free Inquiry Volume 42, No. 2
February/March 2022
Edward Tesler

As the joke goes, taxes and death are inevitable, but death at least does not become worse every time the U.S. Congress is in session. Taxes are a separate topic; here, only death will be discussed. The first question is obvious: Is death really inevitable? If this is the case, there is obviously nothing to …

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Shadow Gosplan and Other Lies
Free Inquiry Volume 41, No. 5
August/September 2021
Edward Tesler

Edward Tesler lived in the USSR until he moved to the United States in 1980. —Eds. “I love boxing. You are sitting in a comfortable chair, looking at the ring, and somebody else gets hit in the face.” This joke sounds apolitical, but it too reflects big politics. Everybody knows about the centralized planning of …

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