Markets or diktats? Our friend and colleague Ilya Somin recently reiterated his call for repurposing May 1st as “International Victims of Communism Day.” We want to be the first to second his modest proposal …
Good riddance
Gregory Lewis poses the following intriguing question in this thoughtful and original essay/blog post: where are the 13 Platos in modern Attica? Here is an extended excerpt from his essay: Continue reading
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The State of North Carolina recently enacted a controversial law limiting the legal rights of “transgender individuals.” The law prevents such persons from using public restrooms that don’t correspond with the gender (male or female) on their birth certificates. (By the way, although the North Carolina law allows private businesses to create their own wash room policies, practically speaking this law is unenforceable. After all, who carries around their birth certificate?) In any case, Tyler Cowen, one of our favorite public intellectuals, has written up a thoughtful post about the N.C. law on his hyper-blog Marginal Revolution. Specifically, he poses the following legal question:
Should there be a legal definition of who is a transgender person and why?
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What? No Virtual Boy? (Image Credit: Narendur.)
This semester, we reenacted many pivotal scenes from the film “The Social Network” — and we read Ben Mezrich’s book “Accidental Billionaires” on which the film is based — in order to explore in-depth many legal and ethical issues in the business world. The movie, which was released in the fall of 2010, ends with the following epilogue:
Facebook has 500 million members in 207 countries. It’s currently valued at 25 billion dollars. Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in the world.
That was before Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2012. Today (spring of 2016), Facebook has three times as many active users (over 1.49 billion) and is valued at over 200 billion dollars!
(By the way, for our last class (4/25), students may volunteer to present their final projects in class. Each student or group of students, as the case may be, will be allocated a maximum of five minutes to make their presentations. The class as a whole will select the best final project, and the professor will feature the winning final project on his blog.)
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Making it big in business after age 40
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remember the good old days...
"Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences." - Sylvia Plath
a personal view of the theory of computation
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