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Authors@Google: Salman Khan →
AtGoogleTalks, youtube.com
Progress in education.
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The directors of such [joint-stock] companies, however, being the managers...
– Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure | Michael C. Jensen Harvard Business School & William H. Meckling University of Rochester
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Techdirt: Shouldn't There Be Significant... →
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You’re not going to believe this, Ted. You know what this evil bastard did? Yes,...
– Niall Ferguson Endorses Mitt Romney for President - Niall Ferguson
I wish Ted would have run for the office in his lifetime.
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The right answer is to promote the kind of diversity and competition that...
– Yes, Wall Street Helps the Poor - Niall Ferguson
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This Week in Review: Institutions and news... →
Do institutions have a place in news innovation?: About three weeks after Dean Starkman’s indictment of future-of-news thinkers was posted online by the Columbia Journalism Review, NYU professor Clay Shirky — one of the primary targets of the piece — delivered a response late last week in the form of a thoughtful essay on the nature of institutions and the news industry. Shirky explained the...
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The Internet isn’t really a technology. It’s a belief system, a philosophy about...
– MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito on innovating by the seat of our pants. Related, the untold story of how MIT Media Lab became a mecca for innovation.
(via curiositycounts)
And it’s a system that is irrevocably altering the nature of political discourse, as the Arab Spring, the Tea Party,...
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The recent volatility in financial markets – be it the dizzying swings in...
– Prepare for a different financial landscape | Mohamed El-Erian
Calling on all financial-creatives to disrupt (save) our markets with new products for managing our global markets more efficiently. Is is possible that the failed models of physicists, mathematicians, and programmers will give way to...
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Why is it that able, public-spirited people produce such different results...
– Milton Friedman | Why Government Is the Problem
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Population x Consumption = Planet's Carrying... →
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