Showing posts with label capitalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label capitalism. Show all posts
Sunday, April 12, 2026

Rory Sutherland’s 10 Rules of Alchemy

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Rory Sutherland is a vice president at Ogilvy in the UK. His YouTube videos advertise and promote the powers of myth, emotion, creativity, a...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

One Million Pageviews

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Because I get paid to write what other people want, I write whatever I want here. And I am cognizant of the fact that other people read this...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Official Innumeracy

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Cutting tariffs by 115% means that everything gets a 15% subsidy, perhaps by a reduction in declared value. Secretary of the Treasury Scott ...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

Brain Drain

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Catching up on the weekends is difficult and I should have written this ten days ago when I first found the bifold handout in an engineering...
Monday, June 10, 2024

Jim Simons and the Quants

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Being centered on mathematicians, this book was not exciting, but it was interesting. James Harris “Jim” Simons (1938-2024) earned his docto...
Monday, December 12, 2022

LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF ATLAS SHRUGGED

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Ayn Rand kept a "Horror File" of current news reports validating the worst aspects of her fictional universe in Atlas Shrugged . S...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

World Peace Through World Trade

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I stopped at Walmart because they have the best organic salad greens in a box at a price even lower than Whole Foods. Usually, it is a quick...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

Massive Constellations of Artificial Satellites: What if they were natural?

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Many of my colleagues in astronomy, both professional and amateur, are vocal in their opposition to Starlink, the SpaceX project that is pla...
Saturday, January 15, 2022

The Invention of Enterprise

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The Invention Of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship  from Ancient Mesopotamia To Modern Times.  David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, William J. Baumol,.  ...