These are my links for March 25th 2009 through April 10th 2009:
- Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world – "Nassim Nicholas Taleb has a comment piece in today’s FT outlining 10 principles that might bring ‘economic life closer to our biological environment: smaller companies, richer ecology, no leverage. A world in which entrepreneurs, not bankers, take the risks and companies are born and die every day without making the news.’
- YouTube – The Most IMPORTANT Video You’ll Ever See – Exponential function and doubling time , hugely important but simple mathematical concepts vital to understanding our world.
- The Postmodern Financial Crisis by André Glucksmann, City Journal Winter 2009 – “It is true because we say it is” has run its course.
- 'Chiefs, Thieves, and Priests': Science writer Matt Ridley on the causes of poverty and prosperity – Reason Magazine – If we continue to go on in the same way, our future is unsustainable. Of course, we never go on in the same way.
- Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » How Rich Countries Die – This is a book report on The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities, by Mancur Olson. There isn’t a whole lot about how nations pulled themselves out of their medieval stagnation (see A Farewell to Alms for that), so a better title for this still-in-print book from 1982 would be “How Rich Countries Die.”
