The New York Times Book Review, Sunday, November 27, 2005, had a review of the book, The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin M. Friedman. Dr. Friedman is a professor at Harvard.
Here is a link to the review.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/books/review/27easterbrook.html
The title of the review is, The Capitalist Manifesto. The reviewer is GREGG EASTERBROOK. I highly recommend the review. The gist of the book is that growth is key to effecting political and social liberalization.
Economic growth is a topic whose importance is overlooked by too many people.
Robert
Monday, May 27, 2013
Adding Skills on Your LinkedIn Profile
The LinkedIn website adds skills to your LinkedIn Profile and invites your contacts to endorse you. I have a number of skills on my profile, but I have not added a single one of them. I believe my contacts have been notified by the website, not by me, to endorse me for the skills the website has added.
The website has done a fine job listing skills I have, but wonder about the appropriateness of LinkedIn to modify my profile and communicate to my contacts on my behalf.
Isn't this over-reaching?
Robert
The website has done a fine job listing skills I have, but wonder about the appropriateness of LinkedIn to modify my profile and communicate to my contacts on my behalf.
Isn't this over-reaching?
Robert
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Soren Kierkegaard the Philosopher
Soren Kierkegaard was mentioned twice in today's New York Times (Sunday 5/5/2013). In the book reviews there was an interview with Robert Bly where he was asked this question: "Which books have had the most impact on you as a writer?" His answer was: "One was “The Present Age,” by Kierkegaard. He predicts the rise of savagery. It is all around us now as we’re becoming more and more a sibling society."
I read Kierkegaard in high school and the experience changed my life.
The second article was "Rogue Philosopher, Great Communicator" by JEFFREY FRANK. It is on page 6 of the Sunday Review section (5/5/13). The article trots out interesting facts about Kierkegaard, then discusses a theory of indirect communication. If you want to see an example of indirect communication, I think the book "Fatal Strategies" by Jean Baudrillard fits into that category. There are other ways to describe his writing style, which does not fit neatly into a single box.
Soren Kierkegaard was born 200 years ago today: May 5, 1813. That is why there were two articles about him today. I'm glad he is remembered.
I read Kierkegaard in high school and the experience changed my life.
The second article was "Rogue Philosopher, Great Communicator" by JEFFREY FRANK. It is on page 6 of the Sunday Review section (5/5/13). The article trots out interesting facts about Kierkegaard, then discusses a theory of indirect communication. If you want to see an example of indirect communication, I think the book "Fatal Strategies" by Jean Baudrillard fits into that category. There are other ways to describe his writing style, which does not fit neatly into a single box.
Soren Kierkegaard was born 200 years ago today: May 5, 1813. That is why there were two articles about him today. I'm glad he is remembered.
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