Got an e-mail from Vinit Allen yesterday announcing the Sustainable World Symposium, to be held Saturday, June 14, 2004 at St. Mary’s Cathedral Conference Center in San Francisco, California. From the e-mail: (9F) The Symposium is a dynamic, intensive one-day conference for the general public on the most critical global issues that we face, [...]
During last Saturday’s playoff game between the Cubs and Marlins, Tim Mc Carver raised an interesting point about baseball players. He noted that when a player was hitting well, he would usually just shrug his shoulders about it and not try to analyze it for fear of jinxing things. However, when a player was in [...]
Nathan Rosenberg, Professor of Economics at Stanford University, gave a talk last Thursday at PARC entitled, “The Endogeneity of Technological Change in 20th Century America.” Endogeneity, as defined by Rosenberg, is the process of responding to changes in market forces. (97) According to Rosenberg, up until recently, economic historians viewed technological innovation largely as [...]
