• Archive for September, 2008

    Acumen Fund fellowship applied for

    by  • September 7, 2008 • Personal • 0 Comments

    http://www.acumenfund.org/ Not a snowball’s chance in hell of getting it, but I apply for these things from time to time partly to spread the understanding of what we’re doing with the hexayurt etc. inside the organization and partly to keep retelling the story in different ways, to communicate it for different perspectives. We shall see. [...]

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    BRIC economies on the verge of collapse?

    by  • September 7, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    After a dizzying expansion, the BRIC bubble appears ready to burst. Share prices in Brazil, Russia, India and China — the so-called BRICs — have been declining sharply because of the global credit crunch and military tensions, likely forcing Japanese retail investors to change their investment strategies. In the past year, the Shanghai A-Share index [...]

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    Yaaar! This is great!

    by  • September 7, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    Three Great Social Contractarians: Hobbes, Locke, and … Blackbeard? A Guest Post By PETER LEESON Peter Leeson, the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at George Mason University and author of the forthcoming book “The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates,” blogged here earlier this week about U.F.O.’s and dominoes. This is his [...]

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    The Two Things…

    by  • September 7, 2008 • Personal, Trivia and Media • 0 Comments

    The Two Things summarizes essential professional wisdom in two sentences, such as The two things about economics One: Incentives matter. Two: There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” I have five examples. The two things about hexayurts: One: take twelve 4×8 panels, as close to Thermax HD as you can find, and then cut [...]

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