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Embracing Paradox
Exploring the balance between opposing principles in investment, such as trust versus skepticism, patience versus urgency, and transparency versus confidentiality, emphasizing the importance of harmony in decision-making.
static1.squarespace.comEconomically relevant information is discovered from experimentation, not deduced from a model.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World Book 21)
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“cliometrics” or economic history.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
In PNAS today, Greg Clark documents the inheritance of social status in an impressive dataset on 422,374 people born in England between 1600 to 2022.
Clark finds a strong persistence in social status going from close to distant relatives, which fits a model dating back to RA Fisher's 1918 work on correlations between... See more
These data make a strong case that, as human social networks grow, they necessarily lead to systems that require fewer resources per person, and produce more per person. In other words, the benefits of scale for human groups have always been there.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Thomas Sowell
en.wikipedia.org • Thomas Sowell - Wikipedia
cleverest observer. Consider