Perspectives Articles
Judgement Kall
No Country for Smart Men
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As you walk down the Colombus Bridge and decide to take the stairs to upper Wacker, look at the side of the fence right where the stairs join the Colombus bridge sidewalk. The word "MENSA" has been written on the maroon-painted steel. Weird, eh? Now some of you may have heard of this organization and may actually be a member of the high IQ society or some similar one.
Please Pass The Catchup
on your marks...
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I'm studying at the London School of Economics and Political Science this quarter as part of the full-term IBEP program. Quite different from Chicago, there is quite a focus on trade and development economics, both on the EU periphery and elsewhere. As is true in many development circles, at some gatherings the attendees are more uniformly left wing than shuttlecocks (trivia for non-badminton-players reading: shuttlecocks contain feathers plucked from only the left wings of geese) - and, often, the word "inequality" is tossed around as though it is, by itself, some sort of sociological problem rather than a mathematical conclusion.
Chicago Business
Email Extravaganza
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I am resigned to the fact that my email inbox will always be full. Whether it's the Energy Group, my Microeconomics TA, old friends, family, Facebook, live nude girls or those damn Google Groups, I receive more emails per hour than I have hours to read them.