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O'Reilly Media
APRIL 23, 2024
But as Mazzucato points out , to the classical economists—Smith, Ricardo, and Mill—who lived in a world of inherited power and privilege, rents were a pernicious and persistent consequence (and source) of inequality. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation.
Hacker News
JULY 2, 2023
In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.”
Hacker News
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
This is part 2 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. But what I coveted most was the largest physics book collection there: a series of five plushly illustrated college textbooks. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. How Did We Get Here? Then the third. The second. The fourth.
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