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It’s interesting to compare scarcity in education to the startup world. YC has grown its class size 25x+ in the last 10 years while elite universities have mostly kept class sizes the same. The startup ecosystem embraces more founders because their status is determined by exits; elite universities keep classes small because their status is determin... See more
Erik Torenberg • Signaling on the Internet
Soaring Inequality
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
he greater the ability of the corporation to extract profits from a pool of nominal GDP relative to what is expected, the greater the beneficial impact on equity prices.
Prometheus Research • Equity Market Outlook
beneficiaries they represent, including their interests in a thriving job market that offers economic
Holly Ensign-Barstow • From shareholder primacy to stakeholder capitalism
At the time, about 8 percent of Amherst students were in the low- and lower-middle-class income categories that qualified them for federal aid under the Pell Grant program or similar programs, even though about half of American families fell into that income category.
Steven Brill • Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It
Neoliberalism
Tara McMullin • 1 card
Donations, both corporate and individual, are great business, with every dollar spent in lobbying returning somewhere between $100 and $2500 to the interests of donors depending on the sector and the method of calculation.