Sunday, September 29, 2013
Ray Dalio on the Economic Machine
Ray Dalio, founder of the world's largest hedge fund, presents an interesting and easy to understand lecture on the economy as machine.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Weekend reading
Excellent profile of Raghuram Rajan in Caravan Magazine. Strangely, no mention of the Fischer Black...
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Hello again, Julian Simon
Overpopulation is not the problem, says Erle Ellis.
Monday, September 09, 2013
Traveling Salesman, meet Algorithm
Fantastic read. Unhappy Truckers and Other Algorithmic Problems. (Via Marginal Revolution)
Sunday, September 08, 2013
Book Review: The Idealist
Seems like The Idealist is a must read book for anyone in the development business. The sub-title reads "Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty." And here is a review by James Traub.
Nerds and Humour
These have to be among the most high-brow jokes in the world.
Sample 1: The barman says: “We don't serve faster-than-light particles here.” A tachyon enters a bar.
Sample 2. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A fish.
Sample 1: The barman says: “We don't serve faster-than-light particles here.” A tachyon enters a bar.
Sample 2. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A fish.
Friday, September 06, 2013
Cynicism, thank god!
Dalibor Rohac makes an eloquent defence of cynicism.
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
Sweden as a model of economic recovery
Fred Bergsten on Sweden. Money quote: "The country’s guiding principle is that a successful social welfare society must be fiscally conservative and administratively efficient."
