One of the many podcasts that I subscribe to are the short lectures given at the TED conferences. TED is a non-profit group that hosts multiple conferences each year in which they invite gifted speakers to share their ideas. People from around the world attend these conferences and pay a few thousand dollars for the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Economics’
November 21, 2009
Institutions and Culture…
In my last post I addressed why I thought we need to return to assuming that poverty is the natural state of man. From that assumption we could explore wealth, its sources, and its distribution. This is not to dismiss poverty or to say that nothing can be done about it. Wealth and poverty are two [...]
November 20, 2009
Wealth…
Where does it come from? It was the question that motivated Adam Smith when he wrote “The Wealth of Nations” and it is a question that came back to my mind when I started reading “The Worldly Philosophers” by Robert Heilbroner, a book that I highly recommend. Adam Smith is widely credited with the founding [...]
