Parveen Kaler
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Shafir and Mullainathan gave batteries of tests to Indian sugar farmers. After they sell their harvest, they live in relative prosperity. During this season, the farmers do well on the I.Q. and other tests. But before the harvest, they live amid scarcity and have to think hard about a thousand daily decisions. During these seasons, these same farmers do much worse on the tests. They appear to have lower I.Q.’s. They have more trouble controlling their attention. They are more shortsighted. Scarcity creates its own psychology.
The Unexamined Society - NYTimes.com
10 months ago
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#nytimes #behavioural psychology #david brooks
A good chart of where the US spends its budget.
Google is not associated with things you pay for, and Android is an extension of that,” said Mr. Hall of Larva Labs. “You don’t pay for Google apps, so it bleeds into the expectations for the third-party apps, too.
Android Market Is Attracting More App Developers - NYTimes.com
It’s worse than that. Every dollar that is exchanged for an App is one less dollar exchanged through advertising. There is no incentive for Google to improve payments.
1 year ago
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#google #android #nytimes
When I say “moon shots” I mean big, multibillion-dollar, 25-year-horizon, game-changing investments. China has at least four going now: one is building a network of ultramodern airports; another is building a web of high-speed trains connecting major cities; a third is in bioscience, where the Beijing Genomics Institute this year ordered 128 DNA sequencers … and, finally, Beijing just announced that it was providing $15 billion in seed money for the country’s leading auto and battery companies to create an electric car industry, starting in 20 pilot cities.
Op-Ed Columnist - Their Moon Shot and Ours - NYTimes.com
1 year ago
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#nytimes #thomas friedman #china
They (the British Empire) became a rich and very powerful country because, around about the early 19th century, mechanics took the findings of science and applied them to capitalism. They became a poor country because the great grandchildren of those mechanics weren’t that interested in being mechanics or inventors or dirty hands. They became something more prestigious. And so the country declined because of the loss of that vigour.
You should also read David Brooks op-ed piece, The Genteel Nation. He argues that America is declining because the young and bright are choosing to become lawyers, accountants, and managerial consultants rather than engineers and skilled trade workers.
Manufacturing firms can’t find skilled machinists. Narayana Kocherlakota of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank calculates that if we had a normal match between the skills workers possess and the skills employers require, then the unemployment rate would be 6.5 percent, not 9.6 percent.
1 year ago
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#david brooks #nytimes #charlie rose #pbs
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