Showing posts with label Bourgeois Virtue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bourgeois Virtue. Show all posts
Friday, June 27, 2014

Video: Cafe Hayek's Don Boudreaux on The Hockey Stick of Human Prosperity

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Cafe Hayek's Don Boudreaux explains the hockey stick of human progress. (from Marginal Revolution )
Thursday, October 17, 2013

The Virtue of Failure: Billionaire Sara Blakely’s Success Recipe

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In the realm of capitalism, failures serve as stepping stones to success as I pointed out here here and here Take for example, billio...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

Video: Gary North on the World's Transition to the Modern Economy

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Via BBC's Hans Rosling , I have previously posted a video showing the modern economy's dramatic growth transformation which begun ...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Quote of the Day: Leading Myths About Entrepreneurship and Effective Start Up Communities

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What are the leading myths about building more effective startup communities? There are there common ones: 'We need to be more lik...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Survey: China a Marxist Country with Blossoming Capitalist Sentiment

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It appears that the average Chinese has been more accommodative to capitalism than Americans. From Bloomberg , (bold mine) Survey ...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

15-Year Old Wonderkid Dramatically Improves Pancreatic Cancer Tests

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Talk about the magnificence of human capital . From Make : (hat tip Professor Mark Perry) [bold mine] Maryland young maker Jack Andra...
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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Quote of the Day: Bourgeois Virtues

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Give a woman some rice, and you save her for a day. That’s the simplest form of what Christians flatter themselves by calling “Christian...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Graphic: The Virtue of Failure

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The incredibly creative Ms. Jessica Hagy has a great illustration of what I have been lately discussing about as the virtues of failure (wh...
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

The Virtue of Failure

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Here is a helpful career tip from my favorite marketing guru Seth Godin Too many MBAs are sent into the world with bravado and enthusi...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Quote of the Day: In Liberty, Institutions Matter

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However that may be, the main point about which there can be little doubt is that Smith's chief concern was not so much with what man...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Asians are World’s Top Blog Readers

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That’s according to Comscore.com Global analysis of the Blog category revealed that Japan led all markets in blog engagement, with the ...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Cities, Mathematics and Human Action

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Below is an interesting talk by physicist Geoffrey West at the TED forum on Cities. Some points he makes; -It’s hard to kill a city. ...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

We are Living in the Best Years in over Two Thousand Years

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The Economist has this interesting population weighted chart which shows that much of human history and progress has been happening during t...