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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.
In 2020, David Gallagher, who runs SF Memory, opened a cabinet found abandoned in San Francisco’s Mission District, somewhere around Tiffany and Duncan streets. Inside were 920 Kodachrome slides by a then unknown photographer capturing life in the city throughout the 1960s. They show us the construction of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) … Continue reading "The Mystery Remains: Found Kodachrome Photos From 1960s San Francisco" The post The Mystery Remains: Found Kodachrome Photos From 1960s San Francisco appeared first on Flashbak.
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.
Early Modern Millers’ Tales JamesHoare Thu, 04/03/2025 - 09:05
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant exploded. The fallout left large parts of modern-day Ukraine and Belarus uninhabitable. Six years after the explosion, the Soviet Union collapsed. Many historians, including Mikhail Gorbachev himself, believe Chernobyl was the real cause of the collapse. The disaster undoubtedly proved a catalyst for the collapse in […]
