- Bernard Salanié on general financial (il)literacy. Vraiment incroyable!
- Hal Varian on the future of leisure…that never arrived. I pretty much agree with every single line Varian writes in there.
Sometimes learning is costly…but always worthwhile!
This is about a nice interview with Economics Nobel Laureate Myron Scholes, in the WSJ Editorial Page. I think the way the interviewer introduces Scholes is just great:
You know him better as a winner of the Nobel Prize in economics.
→ Read more Quote for the week 4th to 10th of March ’07
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
“Fabulospirit” e doar un alt termen, mai ‘fabulos’, pentru “branding Romania”. Punct si de la capat
Lucian Georgescu clarifica niste lucruri in interviul pe care i l-au luat cei de la Hotnews.
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Am scris initial despre treaba asta aici. Intre timp Gabriel Liiceanu a raspuns cu mai multe detalii si unele au sens perfect (a propos, insa, vezi si la finalul postului meu, cel care ii ia interviul, il si “conduce”, e o practica josnica in jurnalism, autorul trebuie ca e un bigot, asta in cazul “bun”, care vrea sa-l scoata pe Liiceanu cu orice pret de unde, posibil, sa nu poata fi scos); de exemplu, este ca treaba cu plagiatul e subtire de tot (si parea astfel de la inceput), dar, dupa cum ma asteptam, Liiceanu e foarte vag si evaziv referitor la acuzatia de a fi “dizident postrevolutionar” -si poate chiar mai grav, in context general, de falsificare a istoriei (antedatarea unor documente, chiar personale, scoaterea unor pasaje cel putin ‘compromitatoare’ din texte mai vechi, in loc de asumarea si explicarea lor s.a.m.d.)-
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