Primeiro, a atual população mundial corresponde a aproximadamente 7% de todos os seres humanos que já viveram. Há muito mais mortos que vivos, em outras palavras, 14 para 1, e ignoramos a experiência...
Michael Burleigh de un modo esclarecedor ha empleado en fechas recientes para explicar la característica esencial del nazismo: el liderazgo mesiánico, la necesidad de adoctrinar, el afán de persecució...
La retórica europea de los nazis halló especial resonancia en todos aquellos conservadores para quienes el dominio alemán parecía un mal menor frente al comunismo soviético.
In real terms, stocks increased by a factor of 10.3; bonds by a factor of 3.4; bills by a factor of 1.8. Had my parents made the mistake of simply buying $10,000 in dollar bills in 1964, the real valu...
I would feel happier about professions of high moral principles if they did not so frequently coincide with a policy of minimum risk.189
Because of preferential attachment, most social networks are profoundly inegalitarian.
Balkan Wars
«Creo que tenemos la peculiar idea de que nuestro gobierno es perfecto sin saber real y verdaderamente cómo funciona».72
Welfare state is not part of democracy as the ancient Athenians conceived of it. In bee terms, the welfare state seems to create an ever increasing number of dependent drones whom the worker-bees have...
There could be no planning because no one had time for it
The way the money was spent ensured that Spain’s newfound wealth provided the entire continent with a monetary stimulus.
The financial system is so genuinely complex and so many of the relationships within it are non-linear, even chaotic.
The dichotomy between network and hierarchy is an ancient idea.
The Internet is merely ‘the modern public square’,
The Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae), which was to cater to poor borrowers like military veterans, and a rechartered Fannie Mae, now a privately owned government sponsored enterpr...
Tenuously
Super zip codes’, looks increasingly like a new caste, equipped with the wealth and power to override the effects of mean reversion in human reproduction, so that even their dimmer progeny inherit the...
Striving to be a master of the universe
Six degrees of the mathematician Paul Erdös, himself a pioneer of network theory, as we have seen.13 Recent research suggests the number is now closer to five than six, which suggests that technologic...
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