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So the relevant qualifier to my statement above is top 50 institutions in the country. Florida isn't among them. To make the qualifier more precise, I was thinking of institutions …

One thing that gets lost in most of these debates is the fact that many students don't pay the sticker price that universities advertise. At most of the top 50 universities in the …

Kauffman Foundation paper evaluates how growing wage and skill premiums in finance suppress innovation and entrepreneurship

Not familiar with the programs at either university, but consider that Stanford is one of the wealthiest private institutions in the world against the budget crisis that the state …

Just curious, where did you acquire this knowledge? Is there somewhere that I can read up on the industry, or did you learn all this from experience?

Michael Lewis gets amazing access for the pieces he writes about finance. Not too technical, but he really gets into the characters that are involved with different parts of the in…

Why can't I rent ebooks? All I want is to pay $X to take out Y books at a time like I do with Netflix for movies. Who do I need to talk to get this done? I'd love to do it myself, …

An interesting related piece about Nokia's strategy: http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/07/obituar...

This is the Ruef paper if anyone is interested. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1519766 The study of social networks is incredibly fascinating, but the discipline is definitely in a na…

That completely misses the point of the piece. The author does a great job of outlining how Nokia's mobile strategy was pretty rational, even in retrospect, and why a head to head …

There is absolutely nothing about methodology on the ASCI site. Here is their official commentary on the results: http://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&task... The MS…

you know, it's funny. most people would put the start of economic thought ~1776 when Adam Smith wrote the Wealth of Nations. That means it's been around less than 250 years. Sure i…

The original article. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/exploitation_elle_mag_h...

Well first off, everyone should read the New Yorker article referenced. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/31/090831fa_fact_... The issue at hand is not teacher compensatio…

I think I'll be there. I just joined up a few days ago, but this could be fun.

When does the author talk about double sided coins? The example is based on the premise that the coin is fair and each toss is independent of the others.

Wired had a writeup of this guy last year. Pretty interesting: http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2008/02/blind_hacker?...

Fun fact about that picture (if I've identified it correctly): It was taken for Warren Buffett's annual Christmas card. After the photo was taken, the Hooters girls all fawned over…