It may still be the tiniest state of the EU according to size but Luxembourg is also one of its most prosperous ones. The Grand Duchy is one of the three institutional centers of the Union and very often feeds new elements into the debate of and about the EU and as a result helps bigger countries to reach agreement.
The article entitled "Life among the Econ" was written in the style of an anthropologist's study on a tribe of economists called the "Econ" (Leijonhufvud [1973]).4 In this article, the Econ live in the far north and the status of the members is determined by their skill in making elaborated "modls" (taken from "model" used in economics) of their "field" of study.