Tag: Change
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How Will You Spend Your Energy?
On life and the decision to pursue entrepreneurship Read →
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The Ancien Régime and the Revolution
With all the hubbub about China as of late, I thought it might be worth reading Alexis De Tocqueville’s The Ancien Régime and the Revolution (Penguin: 2008). A number of China Hands say the Party has used this book to inform their approach to domestic stability and harmony.1 I have no idea whether these assertions […]
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Reflections on a Winding Road to EM Private Equity
In late 2005, I would arrive at the office early and catch up on the latest news of sectarian violence in Iraq. It made for gruesome reading—bodies discovered in vacant houses, tied to chairs with clear evidence of torture. A favorite tool seemed to be power drills, which were used on knees, ankles, heads. There […]
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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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The Reckoning
Unsustainable economic trends will lead to populist politics and demagogues (Jan 2014) Read →