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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...et http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neg... ...XIII. The Myth of the Earnings Yield XIV. Immortality and Mortality in the Economic Sciences XV. The Agent-Principal Conundrum XVI. The Green-Eye... ... and Place Marketing XXXV. NGOs – The Self-appointed Altruists XXXVI. The Wages of Science XXXVII. The Lessons of Transition XXXVIII. The Morality... ... laureate Robert Solow and, more importantly, by Paul Romer, an economist from the University of California at Berkeley, clearly demonstrates. Addi... ...nt of information one can transfer through a single fiber optic swelled 100 times. Computer storage catapulted 80,000 times. Broadband and cable mo... ...ous version of market efficiency - i.e., as Aswath Damodaran of the Stern Business School at NYU puts it, that market prices are "unbiased estimate... ... models is called for. The maverick Andrew Lo, a professor of finance at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, summed up the lure of technical ana... ...one involved grows - the very concept of risk is under attack. Value-at-Risk (VAR) computer models - used mainly by banks and hedge funds in "dynam...

Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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