Tünnif and other unlikely musings

Saving Capitalism by Robert Reich

Anyone who still believes people are paid what they’re worth is obliged to explain the soaring compensation of CEOs in America’s large corp...
Myths of Modern Capitalism by Joseph Heath

Increasingly, economists are becoming aware of this - there has been a significant move toward so-called behavioral economics within the p...
Niall Ferguson - on the consequences of the 1914 European war

Civilization: The West and the Rest - Niall Ferguson The war that began in 1914 was not a war between a few quarrelling European states....
Barbara Tuchman on the Renaissance

A nice summation of the Renaissance by Barbara Tuchman in The March of Folly: Christophe r Columbus statue at downtown Seattle'...
Luxury, rather than necessity, is the mother of invention...

From The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petrosk Think about it: ...whereas the shortcomings of an existing thing may be expressed ...
It’s my stock and I love it

A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market by John Allen Paulos ; a must read if you're going to dabble (don't dabble!) in the stock ma...
Richard Branson - Business Stripped Bare

Richard Branson - Business Stripped Bare Business is creative. It's like painting. You start with a blank canvas. You can paint anyt...
The End of Faith by Sam Harris

Religious moderation springs from the fact that even the least educated person among us simply knows more about certain matters than anyone...
Joseph E. Stiglitz on the wealth of lower and middle classes

... much of the wealth of the bottom and the middle, resting on the value of their homes, was phantom wealth—based on bubble housing prices....
Adam Smith: the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interests

"Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individ...