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ed yong • What Counts as Seeing
The flood of effective altruists into the firm was worrisome. These people arrived with their own value system. They had their own deep loyalties to something other than Jane Street. They didn’t have the usual Wall Street person’s relationship to money; they didn’t care about their bonuses in the ways Wall Street people were supposed to care. Sam B
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Se não podemos confiar que as forças de mercado da oferta e da demanda fixarão ótimos preços de mercado, e não podemos contar que mecanismos do livre mercado ajudem a maximizar nossa utilidade, talvez tenhamos que buscar outra solução.
Dan Ariely • Previsivelmente irracional: As forças invisíveis que nos levam a tomar decisões erradas (Portuguese Edition)
“Programs should be judged based on results, not intentions.” —Milton Friedman,
Henry Alkire • Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time
The main point is simply that if the gains to the future are significant and ongoing, those gains should eventually outweigh one-time costs by a significant degree, and they will likely carry along other plural values as well.
Tyler Cowen • Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
Fairness is a function of effort and effort is shown through transparency.