![]() In 2022, Jack Monroe announced work on the Vimes Boots Index (VBI), a price index that would measure the cost of the cheapest staple foods, stating the Office of National Statistics' (ONS) Consumer Price Index underestimated inflation. The theory has been cited with regard to analyses of the prices of boots, gas prices, and economic conditions in the United Kingdom. ![]() Inspirations may have included similar scenes in Robert Tressell's 1914 novel The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists and a 1954 column for The Observer by Paul Jennings. In the novel, Sam Vimes, the captain of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, illustrates with the example of boots. The term was popularized by English fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett in his 1993 Discworld novel Men at Arms. The Duck Man is quite happy as he is.įor unknown reasons the Assassins' Guild has a substantial price on his head, although he is probably safe as few assassins would want to be recorded as assassinating a beggar.The Sam Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness, often called simply the boots theory, is an economic theory that people in poverty have to buy cheap and subpar products that need to be replaced repeatedly, proving more expensive in the long run than more expensive items. Confused memories of a time before he became the Duck Man occasionally arise, but are soon disregarded. ![]() Other small clues such as that he cannot recall his past will not be observed except in an extensive conversation. The reason that the Duck Man is called the Duck Man, and considered insane, is that there is forever a duck sitting on top of his head, though he insists that there is not. It is possible that someone who sits down blindfolded with the Duck Man at the same table can carry out a normal conversation on a non-personal and non-controversial topic without finding out that the Duck Man is a beggar (no longer in the Beggars' Guild) who is considered insane. He is the most coherent of the Canting Crew he can estimate how much food can be bought with a certain amount of money. The Duck Man is a beggar in Ankh-Morpork, who unlike Foul Ole Ron, talks like an intellectual. Wears fine (if somewhat tattered) clothing, has a duck on his head ![]()
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