Why poor countries are poor
“We still don’t have a good word to describe what is missing in Cameroon, indeed, in poor countries across the world. But we are starting to understand what it is. Some people call it “social capital,” or maybe “trust.” Others call it “the rule of law,” or “institutions.” But these are just labels. The problem is that Cameroon, like other poor countries, is a topsy-turvy world in which it’s in most people’s interest to take action that directly or indirectly damages everyone else. The incentives to create wealth in any way at all are turned on their heads just as surely at the roof of the school library.
Out of the box
Sodobni svet kljub pretiranemu zamegljevanju, zapletanju in očitnim prevaram ni nerazumljiv, ni neprepoznaven, pač pa je – če zastavimo prava vprašanja – celo bolj zanimiv, kot si mislimo. Vse kar potrebujemo, je nov način gledanja nanj.
Obsedno stanje na urgenci
Skupina dvajsetih pacientov z običajno kartoteko in bolečinami v prsih je bila izročena skupini zdravnikom – kardilogom, internistom, zdravnikom na urgenci in stažistom, ki so imeli veliko izkušenj s presojo v takih primerih.
Vprašanje je bilo ali bodo bolniki ocenjeni podobno, vendar se niso strinjali v ničemer. Istega pacienta bi neki zdravnik poslal domov, drugi na intenzivno nego, enako je nihala verjetnost srčne kapi. Zdravniki so mislili, da presojajo razumsko, v resnici pa so bolj ali manj ugibali.
How China sees the world?
“So China is in a more precarious situation than many Westerners think. The world is not bipolar and may never become so. The EU, for all its faults, is the world’s biggest economy. India’s population will overtake China’s. But that does not obscure the fact that China’s relative power is plainly growing—and both the West and China itself need to adjust to this.”
Too many?
“Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, came up with the idea for Facebook one day in his dorm room. Perhaps he had snacked on too many magic mushrooms that day, or maybe he tired of watching the same Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reruns and decided to conjure up wild plans for new ways to foster his unsociability. Whatever. Who knows.”
