jan 27 2013
I often watch the news or read magazines and papers and ask myself: what’s wrong with the metaphor? Exactly this is what Anat Schenker-Osorio unfolds in her first book. There’s a lot of nonsense talking about the economy, as if it’s an abstract object, in motion or not, as variable as the weather or worse: …
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 …
feb 14 2012
Scott Berkun wrote 1,500+ essays on various topics, before compiling 30 of them in Mindfire – Big Ideas for Curious Minds. Though the originals were published over a timespan of more than 10 years, they were rewritten to their Mindfire’s version. You’ll learn to find passion, think free, manage time, pay attention and more. Scott Berkun is …
feb 06 2012
Daniel Kahneman got the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for his work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, (now translated into Dutch as Ons feilbare denken) Kahneman explains the two systems that drive the way we think and decide. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; …
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