Friday, April 25, 2014

Paul's Update 4/25


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How do you round numbers? The answer matters
I learned something surprising this weekend. A rule I was taught back in elementary school turned out not always to be true. In the process, I d...
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Human capital and income inequality | vox
The rise of income inequality in many countries from 1985 onwards, and particularly during the recent crisis, has prompted a current debate on th...
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Barack Obama's Flip-Flop and the End of Net Neutrality
It threatens to make the Internet unequal in a way that deeply threatens our long-term prosperity.
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The Qualified Self: Going Beyond Quantification
Eric Boam & Jarrett Webb As humans, we are driven to seek ever-deeper understandings of both the world around us and 
the world within us. 
A...
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Speak Your Piece: Hijacking Universities | Daily Yonder ...
04/24/2014 0 comments print Land-grant colleges have gone from serving the public interest to serving private agendas of caree...
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Ten questions for Thomas Piketty, the economist who exposed capitalism’s fatal flaw
Thomas Piketty is in high demand. The 42-year old French economist's new book Capital in the Twenty-First Century offers a nerve-wracking argument: Because the return on investment tends to exceed the rate of growth, inequality isn't an unintended con...
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Does the thinking of yesterday’s management g...
Ansoff’s Matrix, Porter’s Five Forces competitive analyses and Drucker’s Management By Objectives are 3 of the best known and most frequently app...
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Even Good Employees Hoard Great Ideas
The right incentives are not obvious.
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The Trouble with Sunspots
A personality-driven history of economic forecasting by business historian Walter Friedman points up the limitations of the prediction bus...
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