2008-05-6 - 2 commentaires
Patchwork de liberté
Au final, notre patchwork de pays le plus ralistement libéral sur Terre serait un genre de Hong Kong nordique doté d’une common law à l’anglo-saxonne avec un système judiciaire à base de juges locaux élus gérant des juridictions indépendantes, sans douane ni réglementation de l’emploi, utilisant le Yen, et doté de banques australiennes et suisses…
Très intéressante synthèse des pays les plus ou moins libéraux de la planète selon plusieurs critères fondamentaux pour la prospérité économique.
2007-11-24 - 1 commentaire
Who’s on First
by Cass R. Sunstein & Richard Thaler
Post date: 08.27.03
Issue date: 09.01.03
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game By Michael Lewis (W. W. Norton, 288 pp., $24.95)
Michael Lewis’s new book is a sensation. It treats a topic that would seem to interest only sports fans: how Billy Beane, the charismatic general manager of the Oakland Athletics, turned his baseball team around using, of all things, statistics. What next–an inspirational tale about superior database management? But there are some broader lessons in Lewis’s book that make it worth the attention also of people who do not know the difference between a slider and a screwball. Those lessons have to do, above all, with the limits of human rationality and the efficiency of labor markets. If Lewis is right about the blunders and the confusions of those who run baseball teams, then his tale has a lot to tell us about blunders and confusions in many other domains.
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