nov 01 2012
Bruce Schneier collected wisdom from several disciplines to Liars & Outliers: enable the trust that society needs to thrive. My legends from Economics class, the principal-agent problem, Prisoner’s Dilemma, Coase‘s ceiling. Psychological experiments on trick or treat, personal versus group interest, self interest versus the sake of others. Societal dilemmas fill up this book: from …
aug 31 2012
Bruce C. Greenwald (who teaches in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business) and Judd Kahn (a former history professor) prove globalists to be dead wrong in Glob•ali•za´•tion: n. The Irrational Fear that Someone in China Will Take Your Job. While we’re supposed to live in the Globalization 3.0 world according to Thomas L. Friedman c.s. the net …
aug 18 2011
In Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything, which I got from the author, F.S. Michaels through Librarything, this Canadian researches explains the consequences of a dominant paradigm or worldview, story in her words to society as a whole. The rise of the economic story not only changes the way you think, but also the …
apr 01 2008
Als doctorandus bedrijfseconomie heb ik ook onderwijs gekregen over de rationaliteit achter de (economische) beslissingen die elk mens zou hebben. Afwegingen worden keurig op nut gewaardeerd, en alles is terug te voeren op de ratio, althans in de bijbehorende modellen met keurige krommen, wiskundige formules en eenvoudige beslisbomen. Zo ongeveer aan de andere kant van …
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