Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Making Money: Like Alchemy but Less Messy

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I have to say as having read the previous 30 or so discworld books with there being no mention of the real economics or banking industr...
Friday, December 27, 2013

O'Sullivan's Microeconomics. I guess it's ok.

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I guess, after looking at the thing, there isn’t much to give credit to not to denigrate this thing. Most people, if given the ch...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Hopeful Science, Doubtful Economics: Reading Zhavoronkov's "The Ageless Generation"

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The Author of this work, Alex Zhavoronkov   is highly optimistic about the eventual success of biological technology in vastly increasi...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

The Marshmallow Index.

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If I have to read one more shorthand description of the famous "Marshmallow Study" in a social science book, I'm going to expl...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Short and Lacks Focus: Cass Sunstein's "Simpler"

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I don’t know what I really expected when I picked this book up.   I liked “Nudge” and I am a fan of most of the Behavioral Economics book...

Get this to the President: Reading Baker and Bernstein's "Getting Back to Full Employment"

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We are at the level of employment we have only because people have made the decision that this level is acceptable.  Bernstein and Baker l...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

On "Scarcity" by Mullainathan and Shafir

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Here’s the bottom line.   Not having enough is bad. It is not just the absence of material goods, but also the price is paid in cogniti...