Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for September 19, 2014
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Transcript:
Know your branches of economics: How well theory describes scenarios it considers How likely those scenarios are to occur in reality Describes well Will never happen Microeconomics Happens constantly Describes terribly Macroeconomics
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 10 years ago
The hollow drum speaks the loudest!
emptc12 over 10 years ago
Where is Hari Seldon when he’s needed? When will “psycho” history become Psychohistory? I read that Paul Krugman was inspired by the FOUNDATION novels to take up Economics.
Olddog1 over 10 years ago
emptc12: Interesting, since until the Mule appeared the Foundation story was an updating of the breakup of the Roman Empire.
emptc12 over 10 years ago
“The classics never go away because they conform to the basic plotlines of history, sort of like the I Ching describes.”.I agree. I’ve believed that there are only a few basic literary themes, done over and over with variations. And reading various “big” books after a decade or so away, I tend to understand them better, through other reading as well as accumulated life experiences. I think if you reach or surpass an author’s age at the time of his or her writing a book you always admired, you might be entitled to find flaws.. The best works transcend an author’s limitations of age, pass the test of time cultural and personal. Those works stay ever true and the authors are ever your “elders."