Econ Autodidactic
There is only one true answer to any economic question: "It depends".
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Goal Setting
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Find the Target In my organization, I have long been an advocate of Hofstadter's law, named after a data scientist. The idea is t...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Risk Management with Known Risks: Volkswagen
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One thing about the Volkswagen issue is that the executives seem to have been caught flat-footed on the whole thing. It is as if th...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Market Skeptics: Akerlof and Shiller's "Phishing for Phools"
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Akerlof and Shiller between them have as many Nobel-Branded Prizes as Marie Curie did, so each of them are half a Curie. Basically, ...
Boards: Separate and Unequal
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Should Board members be held to the same or higher ethical standards as employees and administrators? Of course, everyone involved in yo...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Diversity: Real and Imagined
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I think that there are two senses of diversity. The first is when you have some idealized group of people who visually can reflect all s...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Nonprofits and the Entrepreneurial Spirit
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Get Your Loaves, Get Your Fishes! There is a sense in the economic situation that we have that if what the mission is is important in i...
Thursday, August 6, 2015
This Strange Machine: The One Percent and the Zero-Sum Economy
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I know Kung Fu. So the last will be first and the first last, for the called are many and the chosen ones are few. ~Matthew 20:1...
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