Showing posts with label Intellectual Trespassing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Intellectual Trespassing. Show all posts
Thursday, September 2, 2010

BH Blog Awards Nominee for Intellectual Tresspassing

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RK's Musings
Friday, February 19, 2010

Make Games Not War

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A great book- highly recommended; The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses Free Chapters; Chapter 6: The game begins with an idea. Chapt...
Friday, January 16, 2009

THE ART INSTINCT

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THE ART INSTINCT-Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution By Denis Dutton Denis Dutton is the founder and editor of the hugely popular Web site...
Sunday, July 13, 2008

Quote of the Day

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“ How the discipline of economics fares in revealing previously unrecognized social relations depends on the competition of disciplines in t...
Sunday, June 22, 2008

Parenting Advice from Steven Pinker

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Pinker goes on to suggest that we'll probably never really know exactly what part genetics plays in the differences between races and ge...
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Thursday, April 24, 2008

The Global Power Elite

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Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making by David Rothkopf Related Book- The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Is Chinese action in Tibet terrorism?

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Jerrold M. Post and Louise Richardson talks with Riz Khan on what motivates terrorists. Their books; The Mind of the Terrorist: The Psycholo...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

How many economics books have acknowledgments like the following

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" I'm also grateful to world-leading artists and humanitarians including Bono, Angelina Jolie, Quincy Jones , John Legend , Madonna...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Futility, Perversity and Jeopardy

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We have to gird ourselves against the unholy trinity of reactionary rhetoric identified by the great development economist Albert Hirschman ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

The Making of Dani Rodrik, political scientist

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So within two months of arriving at Harvard, I set my sights on political science, which seemed like a lot more fun. The test was going to b...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

Rodrik's students are lucky

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I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for sending my resume to ... 2 years ago.... I love my job mainly because I get to do what I...
Monday, January 28, 2008

Lt. Col. John Nagl is leaving the Army

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Why is the Army losing so many talented midlevel officers? The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual - this is one book (and...
Saturday, January 26, 2008

Origin of Norms

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Interesting talk- Origins of Norms: The Place of Value in a World of Nature Featuring Akeel Bilgrami , Lorraine Daston , Gerald Edelman , Jo...
Monday, January 14, 2008

Death by Sewer Gas

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Peter D. Ward, paleontologist talks with Carl Zimmer. via Gene Expression
Friday, January 11, 2008

Stern-omics, climate change and academics having fun

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David Warsh has interesting comments on the recent Ely lecture by Stern; But the centerpiece of the convention was a lecture by Nicholas Ste...
Monday, January 7, 2008

The Economist who's only an economist

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"The physicist who is only a physicist can still be a first-class physicist and a most valuable member of society. But nobody can be a ...
Thursday, December 13, 2007

Watch Dani Rodrik talk about One Economics, Many Recipes

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IMF Book Forum on One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth
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Sunday, November 18, 2007

One Economics, Many Recipes- IMF Bookforum

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One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth Thursday, November 29, 2007 In an important new book, Dani Rod...
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Working Paper of the Day

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Action bias among elite soccer goalkeepers: The case of penalty kicks Abstract;In soccer penalty kicks, goalkeepers choose their action befo...

Rodrik writes

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Hirschman believed that the possibilities for economic development are not nearly as constrained as comprehensive theories lead us to believ...