Economics
by N. Gregory Mankiw, Mark Taylor · first published 2020
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…catlog, I originally checked it out from the library to listen to on my commute but bought my own copy when they went on sale. [1] http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.asp... -- "Economics, 3rd Edition" by Tim Taylor.
on “Bitcoin: The Cyberpunk Cryptocurrency” ↗It really depends on what level of Economics understanding you currently possess. For a complete newbie to economics, I would definitely recommend: http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-N-Gregory-Mankiw/... It is a solid book, and you cannot…
on “Ask HN: What is the best Economics read?” ↗…to his education, and how much to the industry structure's ability to make people pay $233 for his textbook? http://crookedtimber.org/2011/11/04/occupy-greg-mankiw/ http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-N-Gregory-Mankiw/... It should not be that hard to take income (or labor income) and regress against educational level and get a pretty good sense of how much inequality is related to educational achievement,…
on “Greg Mankiw's Blog: Educating Oligarchs” ↗Actually, to be fair, the $233 price is for a prior edition--the latest edition "only" costs $192 (and $154 on Kindle): http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-N-Gregory-Mankiw/...
on “Greg Mankiw's Blog: Educating Oligarchs” ↗…faculty officials. or more recently (Harvard, 2008) http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2008/3/4/professors-find-d... : > Since N. Gregory Mankiw returned to Harvard to teach the College’s introductory economics class, 2,278 students have filled his weekly lectures, many picking up the former Bush advisor’s best-selling textbook, “Principle of Economics” along the way. ... So, what has professor of economics…
on “Supreme Court sides with student in case over textbooks” ↗…management and his System of Profound Knowledge and be far better off than adopting the agile fad of the week; even as I admit I still have open questions on how to apply his work to Software. (See "The New Economics" 3rd Edition, and "Out of the Crisis", both written by Deming).
on “Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects” ↗