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“Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.” - Richard Wagner
Oh hey, Richard got something right after all!
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André Kertész: On Reading
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The Multiple Personalities of Coffee. I am totally The Businesswoman crossed with The Snob, occasionally verging on The Night Owl, should circumstances call for it.
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Raise your hand, bibiophiles, if you have this problem too!
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Everyone loves a morality play. “For the wages of sin is death” is a much more satisfying message than “Shit happens.” We all want events to have meaning.
When applied to macroeconomics, this urge to find moral meaning creates in all of us a predisposition toward believing stories that attribute the pain of a slump to the excesses of the boom that precedes it—and, perhaps, also makes it natural to see the pain as necessary, part of an inevitable cleansing process. When Andrew Mellon told Herbert Hoover to let the Depression run its course, so as to “purge the rottenness” from the system, he was offering advice that, however bad it was as economics, resonated psychologically with many people (and still does).
By contrast, Keynesian economics rests fundamentally on the proposition that macroeconomics isn’t a morality play—that depressions are essentially a technical malfunction.
"Paul Krugman, “How the Case for Austerity Crumbled”
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“Hi, my name is Roger Federer, and I am a massive, effing dork.”
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Rhye — 3 Days
there’s a window in time
three days to feel each other, crack this spine
it’s gonna break cave in on itself
love is terminal not built to last
burn bright burn fast
"…contemporary economics in North America has one great weakness, and that is the excessive focus on methods at the expense of breadth in terms of social and historical perspective. PhD programs now train applied mathematicians and statisticians rather than real economists. To become a true economist, you need to do all sorts of reading – from history, sociology, and political science among other disciplines – that you are never required to do as a graduate student."
Dani Rodrik, “What is wrong (and right) in economics?”
