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"N ow there are four chief obstacles to grasping truth, which hinder every man, however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to earn a clear title to knowledge; namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by the ostentatious display of our knowledge."
Roger Bacon, Opus Majus.
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Monthly Archives: June 2009
A Preponderance of the Evidence
It is fairly well known that the field of business management can be susceptible to fads. Organizational scientists have studied the adoption of business approaches like management-by-objectives, total quality management (TQM), business process re-engineering, just-in-time manufacturing, scorecard methods, and others. … Continue reading
Down to Business
The links between elaborate economic models and reality can be downright mysterious! In 1959 one economist described economic models this way: “Econometric theory is like an exquisitely balanced French recipe, spelling out precisely with how many turns to mix the … Continue reading
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Tagged arts and culture, econometrics, economic impact, garbage in-garbage out, value
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