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Economists
Economics, the dismal science that showers so many good things on those who bother to learn anything about it. — Ben Stein Where to begin. Economists. LOL. Consider first this joke which does its best to sum up the problem: A physicist, a chemist, and an economist are strande…
Invisible Hand
The invisible hand is an imaginary force, invented (arguably 'discovered') by Adam Smith, to explain the way that markets, composed of selfish desires, can have non-selfish consequences. It is a classic case of "emergence", where a thing of one type leads to a thing of an entire…
Natural Monopoly
(These are just my half-baked thoughts. I am happy to adjust them in part or in whole, and to annotate them with links to relevant research etc.) In Economics (and econ. of capitalism) it is generally understood that Monopolies are Bad. Monopolies mean that a single player gets…
What Should I Do Now?
One of the greatest questions in life, in philosophy, in management, in personal productivity is the ever present: WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW? (The now is redundant, as you can only do things "now". If you're talking about something to "do" in the future, then you're talking about "W…
Why are firms so dysfunctional?
It's fair to say that "firms" (companies, commercial entities, multi-nationals, businesses.... call them what you will) — "firms" — when viewed from the inside, seem to be riddled with what modern economics academicians would — had they permission to use a sufficiently expressive…
Why Do Cities Exist?
You might have lived in a city your whole life, or moved to a city from somewhere smaller, or visited a bunch of cities, without ever pondering this question: why on Earth do these monstrous places exist at all? These sort of questions can be considered on a philosophical scale,…