Many things in life are decided by groups of people making judgments together—in courts, committees, board rooms, legislatures, etc. Collective decision-making has much to recommend it: groups of people can pool their wisdom, no one person can rule by fiat,…
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Interesting Links, Journalism
Interesting Articles, Links, Etc.
by Rafe Kinsey •
Some more links. Why do companies buy out startups just to get their employees, rather than just offering them higher salaries, which seems like it would be cheaper? An interesting article in the NYT gives some answers to this puzzle…
Literature
Allusion and Undertones in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Rafe Kinsey •
I wrote in my introductory post that I am ambivalent about much of contemporary fiction. Well, it’s wonderful to come across as singular a counterexample as Mohsin Hamid’s beautiful novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist. This is the sort of work that…