A grab-bag of thoughts entering year three of entrepreneurship.
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The Death of Graduate School?
Is Congress to blame for the “death of graduate school” or is it universities’ failure to heed price signals?
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How Will You Spend Your Energy?
On life and the decision to pursue entrepreneurship
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Technological Acceleration and the Wet Noodle of Monetary Policy
The American boy of 1854 stood nearer the year 1 than to the year 1900. The education he had received bore little relation to the education he needed. Speaking as an American of 1900, he had as yet no education at all. He knew not even where or how to begin.1 If science were to …
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Henry Kissinger’s World Order and the Question of Universal Values
On the tension among “universal” values, world order, and U.S. power
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Thoughts on James Fallows’s “Chickenhawk Nation”
In a Chickenhawk nation, policy still matters (featuring a case study on Somalia)
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Favorite Books of 2014
Following the smashing success1 of last year’s post on my favorite books from 2013, I thought I’d aim for a repeat and perhaps inspire some gift ideas for the holidays. Here are 11 standouts that I remember from this year.
QE & Inequality
Why Quantitative Easing increased inequality, and we knew it would ex ante
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Entropy: The Defining Characteristic of Global Affairs
Markets are pricing for utopia but is tectonic change afoot?
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Vox on Millennials, Risk Aversion, Investing and Success in Life
OMG. Millennials are idiots. They put less than half of their savings in stocks. When they’re old, they’ll subsist on a cat food diet because they were terrible investors. Reading this article on Vox.com raised my blood pressure and left me baffled/speechless.1 Conor Sen (@conorsen) asked me why, so I’ve pulled together some thoughts on why …
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