The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
A few articles on the economy that were sent my way recently. The Good: After Capitalism (Geoff Mulgan) “The era of transition that we are entering will be disruptive—but it may bring a world where...
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I’m giving my “2009 Q1 award for most concise, lucid comment” to Paul Phillips for this gem: Viewed from a thousand miles, the financial system has a incalculably large incentive to fail...
View ArticleDon't Eat That Marshmallow!
Short but brilliant TED talk by Joachim de Posada. I love the economic point he makes at the end. Related posts: Red Pill or Blue Pill? Behavioral Economics With Dan Ariely Notes from TED
View ArticleWorld’s Most Ambitious Crowdsource
Everyone has heard about the Large Hadron Collider, arguably the most ambitious and complex engineering project ever undertaken, anywhere. The purpose, no less ambitious, is to answer all sorts of...
View ArticlePaying Women to Not Get Pregnant
What’s fascinating to me about this is not that it works so well and or that there might actually be support in the Obama administration for doing it on a national scale, but rather that there has not...
View ArticleShould We Tax Poor Nutrition?
I just tweeted on a subject that I suspected would cause a stir, and so it has, I’m moving it here: RafeFurst: I strongly support a soda tax! RT @mobilediner: check it out: a Soda Tax?...
View ArticleName That Financial Debacle!
The following quotes are from a book describing a real set of events: [The incident] is an extraordinary example of what happens when you get… a dozen people with an average IQ of 160… working in a...
View ArticleHealth Care Parallels Education
I was listening today to a Fresh Air interview from a couple of weeks ago on the reasons for the high cost of health care: Highly informative and thought provoking. One thing that struck me was the...
View ArticleThe Limitations & Dangers of Incentives
Click here to view the embedded video. If you liked this, check out these posts: Behavioral Economics with Dan Ariely Management 2.0 Executive Compensation World’s Most Ambitious Crowdsource My...
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Investing in Superstars
This is the first in a four part series. The other are here: part 2, part 3, part 4. Imagine you are in your early twenties, out of college several years and your best friend, who recently came into...
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