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The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations (quotes below), by Donald Chew, persuaded me that for-profit-firm capitalism has varied quite a lot over space and time, and that the U.S.
Standard decision theory says that all decisions combine two key factors: opinions on values, and beliefs about facts.
It is relatively easy to identify a list of things that we want, in the sense of preferring a life with more of them to less of them.
We humans have brains that guide our behavior, inserting complex “signal-processing” between input from our eyes, ears, etc., and output to control our hands, mouth, etc.
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One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.
Willing suspension of disbelief is not a good basis for lawmaking
Ultra-tall high-rises against dark skies. A huge distance between the rich and the poor. Robber barons at the helm of large-scale industrial operations that turn man into machine. Machines that have become intelligent enough to displace man. These have all been standard elements of dystopian visions so long that few of us could manage to […]
