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The year in review at Credit Writedowns – Crony Capitalism
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The year in review at Credit Writedowns – Crony Capitalism is a post from: Credit Writedowns Before the Christmas break, I wrote a post to tie together my thoughts on why I have found the Obama economic program so unsatisfying despite some obvious success in stabilizing the economy. This first part framed the ...13 hours ago -
Relational Models Theory: Business and friendship, and love oh my!
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Audio mp3 of this article Its after Christmas dinner at your brothers house. The fire is crackling in the fireplace. Kids are running around. Youre drinking egg nog, feeling warm all over. Your brother stands up and says "Folks, Im hoping you had a good time tonight. Ill have your bills by the door, please ...1 day ago -
Hmmm, by Arnold Kling
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In Rands study...There were more than two hundred grocers cartons, each divided into sections and filled to the brim with colored stones Rand had collected and sorted. This is from Anne C. Hellers biography of Ayn Rand. Based on reading Tyler Cowens Create Your Own Economy , I would view this stone-sorting behavior ...1 day ago -
A Sentence to Ponder, by Arnold Kling
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from Razib : More often when you strip away adherence to theology you do not get atheism, you get animism. Ponder his whole post.2 days ago -
Selective Memory, by Arnold Kling
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The New Republic has a list of successful progressive reforms that conservatives opposed. It focuses on quotes from conservatives that today look bad. My guess is that one could comb through the back issues of their magazine and find quotes that are equally embarrassing. Just in case you were convinced by the ...2 days ago -
Negotiation Genius: A Book Review
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I don’t usually pick up business books on negotiation, much less read them cover to cover. As a clinical psychologist, I tend to rely on my "clinical skills" to negotiate interpersonal relationships and anything else in my life that needed negotiating. In a nutshell, I’ve always felt that books on negotiation were ...2 days ago -
Usable Insight – Too late to buy Apple stock?
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Apple shares hit record high on more ‘tablet’ rumors Like many of you who are wishing to make back what you lost in 2008, I’m kicking myself for not buying Apple Computer stock when it was much lower than its 12/24/09 record high of $209.04 up a massive 145% year to date after plunging 57% in the market ...2 days ago -
Time Consistency, by Arnold Kling
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Time consistency is one of those terms that economists throw around, and it has come up several times recently on this blog. It might be worth defining/explaining. The situation arises when someone makes a commitment to take an action in the future. If the incentive to keep the commitment is the same as the ...4 days ago -
The Ahistoricity of the SIVH, by Bryan Caplan
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The Self-Interested Voter Hypothesis ( SIVH ) is a poor predictor of political views in the modern U.S. In his interview in FP2P , Joel Mokyr claims that the SIVH has been a flop for centuries: My forthcoming book is called The Enlightened Economy , and it will be a long discussion of the economic history of ...5 days ago -
Stamp Out Regifting--Give Cash
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Youre about to open a gift, and you notice that the bow on the Macys box is a bit off-center, and then you unwrap it, and the tape on the package is at an odd angle. You may be the victim of regifting. Or its countdown to the office party, and you have nothing for Secret Santa, and theres that oyster opener you got ...5 days ago -
Gladwells Stickiness Problem
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The aughts been a good decade for Malcolm Gladwell. The reigning king of urban intellectuals has never not had a book among the New York Times s top 10 bestsellers since his first book, The Tipping Point , debuted in 2000. (Currently, he has four .) With so much success, of course, invariably come brickbats. ...6 days ago -
Nasty surprises, or - what would Jesus do
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My mom and I frequent visitors at the eye clinic. Or clinics, I should say, because weve been at it for years. Cataract when she was young, which left her with glasses as thick as the bottoms of beer bottles, if not thicker, without which she can barely see. And now, for ages, she has acute glaucoma. So acute that the ...6 days ago -
Think outside the box: ten outrageous predictions for 2010
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Think outside the box: ten outrageous predictions for 2010 is a post from: Credit Writedowns Just like last year, I am going to present the list of ten outrageous predictions from Denmark’s Saxo Bank. When I presented the list in 2008, I gave the following disclaimer: Their list is outlandish — and I’ll ...6 days ago -
Everybody Wins When Children Play Less
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In his post, Stop That Runaway Train!, Jim Taylor, writes to parents, "Your challenge is to recognize how this runaway train called family life is hurting your family." His advice is well-founded and helpful. Theres one important message I want to add: The real risk of injury and burnout to child and adolescent ...1 week ago -
BEYOND BAD BODY LANGUAGE: DC COP BRINGS A GUN TO A SNOWBALL FIGHT
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*** Special Report That Could Save Your Professional Life*** The last time Washington, DC was hit with such a heavy snowstorm was in the winter of 2002. My husband and I had just started dating. He lived on Capital Hill, so the two of us bundled up and walked to a local restaurant called Tunnicliffs at ...1 week ago -
Externally self-motivated: A winding tale of love, unemployment, evolution, theology, apples, and oranges.
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My writing drives some people crazy because I make big jumps from one topic to another. One minute Im talking romance, the next Im talking the origins of life. I aim to edit for smooth transitions but theres a bigger problem than prose styling. Ive invested decades in research that trains my mind to follow ...1 week ago -
Does Genius Bloom in Individuals or in Groups?
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Wikipedia has shown the power of group genius. When people put their many minds together, they often reach a precision or breadth of ideas more quickly than individuals can. Another good example of the power of collective genius came this year, when British mathematician Timothy Gowers proposed to solve an elusive ...1 week ago -
MERRY FRICKMAS: Maximize Your Visual Information Channel & Transform Cubic Zirconia Relationships into Diamond Relationships
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I. THE ROADBLOCK The hidden challenges and detours lurking within our professional and personal lives that hold us back from reaching the potential that we are perfectly capable of achieving II. THE FAST LANE TO GETTING WHAT YOU WANT Non-verbal communication case studies, experiments, and strategies that give ...1 week ago -
Why Kant Was Smarter Than Behavioral Economists
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by Mario Rizzo Behavioral economists who like to indulge in normative pronouncements have decided that quasi-hyperbolic discounting violates rationality. In other words, suppose a person decides today that he will give up the hamburgers he loves beginning in 2010 (because of the high fat content). But then when ...1 week ago -
Crypticism Reveals a New Rule of Persuasion!
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Reason metaphorically with me. Consider concepts and clichés, propositions and prepositions, images and imaginations, then cross the bridges. The classic scientific cliché for discovery is Isaac Newton sitting under a tree, watching a falling apple, and experiencing a eureka moment that ends with gravity and ...1 week ago
