Runaway credential inflation may not serve anybody well except for the higher education establishment — is it time to treat college and professional degrees more rationally?
Category Archives: Future
Conspiracy Vs. Transparency
This summer’s open hearings in House Oversight Committee on UAP raise deeper questions than government transparency
Abundance vs. Scarcity
The Abundance Mindset and Scarcity Mindset of Stephen Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” don’t get created only by sheer will power or “positive thinking”!
Time to Rethink GDP
Is there really a trade-off between efficiency and efficacy in economic measurement? Time to try measuring happiness scientifically?
Models
Recently, there has been a flurry of new, highly capable AI products released — I tried ChatGPT, it ain’t there yet!
External Support Found!
Just read this from Emily Stewart at Vox this morning … looks like somebody has read June post, “The Growth Game”! Check it out here (always good to see supporting evidence).
The Growth Game
Since the Club of Rome’s 1972 report Limits to Growth we have seen both decline and resurgence of its conclusions — what comes next in macroeconomic analysis?
More Mysteries of Macroeconomics
What is macroeconomic data measuring, really? Does it matter for a “healthy economy”?
How to Predict the Future
Dealing with emergent properties in science and statistics can be challenging. Some things just can’t be explained or analyzed.
What Is Money?
From simple barter economies to cryptocurrencies, wealth and capital have transformed themselves through history, but in some ways stay the same …
