Archive for October, 2011
Reading the many Steve Jobs obituaries that appeared following the Apple CEO’s death last week, I was struck by the difficulty the writers had in defining exactly what it was he did. Was he a technologist? A designer? An engineer? A businessman? It’s hard to say. Jobs didn’t have a university degree. He didn’t dedicate [ READ MORE ]
There’s a problem with capitalism: it doesn’t quite work. No economic system does, of course. The other great hope, communism, doesn’t have much to show for itself either. Capitalism, however, has promised us so much. Enormous wealth. Security. Abundance for all. Economists and libertarians have long placed their faith in free markets but seldom have [ READ MORE ]
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