(I submitted for lols & it got a quick bump within minutes but I expect dang's auto-karma to move it off the frontpage so please don't bother uvoting)
I skimmed through Thurow seeing if he mentions anything about positive-sum, so far, not much it seems, might dig into his analyses of energy allocation later. There's also his other book on solutions and a (official not official) rebuttal from US Steel itself ("Mathematics of Liberalism")
The single Mellon mention was inspirational however.. it suggested that speed (jerk?) of wealth accumulation can be used as a proxy to measure luck (vs investment "schlep"). Thanks!
"Are CEOs Rewarded for Luck? The Ones Without Principals Are"
>...crankish ... manosphere
Yes the blogger-reviewer sounds like a crank. My intention though was to point out that Emmanuel Todd has some interesting takes on... fraternity. He's also taken seriously by academics, see this talk at IAS
Related: I think Niall Ferguson's something of a right wing crank that's taken too seriously by economic historians, but I try to watch out for interesting stuff he says that might be ignored just because of that :)
Related phys org on the Hubris Arc https://phys.org/news/2025-08-hubris-arc-visionary-politicia...
(I submitted for lols & it got a quick bump within minutes but I expect dang's auto-karma to move it off the frontpage so please don't bother uvoting)
I skimmed through Thurow seeing if he mentions anything about positive-sum, so far, not much it seems, might dig into his analyses of energy allocation later. There's also his other book on solutions and a (official not official) rebuttal from US Steel itself ("Mathematics of Liberalism")
The single Mellon mention was inspirational however.. it suggested that speed (jerk?) of wealth accumulation can be used as a proxy to measure luck (vs investment "schlep"). Thanks!
Related:
https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/116/3/901/1899...
"Are CEOs Rewarded for Luck? The Ones Without Principals Are"
>...crankish ... manosphere
Yes the blogger-reviewer sounds like a crank. My intention though was to point out that Emmanuel Todd has some interesting takes on... fraternity. He's also taken seriously by academics, see this talk at IAS
https://youtu.be/4yz4zUGlhK8
Related: I think Niall Ferguson's something of a right wing crank that's taken too seriously by economic historians, but I try to watch out for interesting stuff he says that might be ignored just because of that :)