tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post3602027450963855722..comments2024-02-20T12:42:49.383+05:30Comments on Ugly, but Bearable: On borrowing books versus buying themAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13798639260026686429noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-86484413865499798532010-12-04T14:12:02.045+05:302010-12-04T14:12:02.045+05:30Allright. Hmph.
Thanks for the good wishes, we&#...Allright. Hmph. <br /><br />Thanks for the good wishes, we'll both see you sometime.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-1724218369544279752010-12-04T00:31:55.835+05:302010-12-04T00:31:55.835+05:30So now I finally get an invite, huh? And that too ...So now I finally get an invite, huh? And that too on my blog! :) <br />I'd love to come but I'm going to be in Delhi from the 9th to the 14th, so I'll have to pass, unfortunately. <br />Congratulations, and best of luck! One of these days we must meet.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13798639260026686429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-15681290396465435222010-12-03T23:42:23.600+05:302010-12-03T23:42:23.600+05:30Oye,
Come for my wedding. Its on the 14th. Bin b...Oye, <br /><br />Come for my wedding. Its on the 14th. Bin bin is coming from bang bang too. <br /><br />Looking forward to seeing you. <br /><br />Love,<br /><br />SalilSalilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-64955609249572239062010-10-09T20:52:55.627+05:302010-10-09T20:52:55.627+05:30ha this is fun
for (a) and (b) to be the same eac...ha this is fun<br /><br />for (a) and (b) to be the same each would have to imply each other.<br /><br />why wouldn't you think you'd be able to impress? <br /><br />what is a more fundamental reason for not making this investment - ex ante investment distortions or ex post lost surplus?khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10083241735659476266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-21810981476401892512010-10-08T22:30:30.184+05:302010-10-08T22:30:30.184+05:30aren't (a) and (b) effectively the same?
Let...aren't (a) and (b) effectively the same? <br /><br />Let's say I don't think I'll be able to impress people with what I read, but then if they aren't going to be impressed by what I read, why should I bother impressing them anyway..?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13798639260026686429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-67422774392341233812010-10-08T01:44:27.739+05:302010-10-08T01:44:27.739+05:30so do you
(a) not want to impress
or
(b) feel...so do you<br /><br />(a) not want to impress <br /><br />or <br /><br />(b) feel impress-ing is likely to be wasted effort?<br /><br />I managed to find bollywood radio on my ipod. so I have bollywood pop songs playing while I write about contractual incompleteness and incentive structure.khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10083241735659476266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-16685668534791193722010-10-06T23:50:22.328+05:302010-10-06T23:50:22.328+05:30There's nothing wrong with engineers per se. I...There's nothing wrong with engineers per se. I just don't think I'm going to impress very many of them with the sort of books I typically read.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13798639260026686429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-85005984425192364212010-10-06T07:36:27.036+05:302010-10-06T07:36:27.036+05:30what's wrong with the engineer or BPO type?
...what's wrong with the engineer or BPO type? <br /><br />here's Kornai: http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/kornai<br /><br />and the book: http://www.kornai-memoirs.hu/english/english.htmlkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10083241735659476266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-86816981306855559452010-10-05T23:42:56.402+05:302010-10-05T23:42:56.402+05:30Well it depends on whom you want to impress. Consi...Well it depends on whom you want to impress. Considering that I live in south Bangalore where most folks are engineers or BPO types, there's not too many people I want to impress anyway. Though there is a NIFT down the road from the library, hence the possibility of reaching for Kahlil Gibran. <br />Given that Russel Crowe's already played John Nash, maybe they can get DiCaprio to play Kornai, since he seems to be specializing in roles that require him to screw up his face and speak in strange accents.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13798639260026686429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7557651362769702661.post-35279114517768518592010-10-05T06:59:50.698+05:302010-10-05T06:59:50.698+05:30why don't you have to worry about angle? In so...why don't you have to worry about angle? In some ways, angle becomes more important, (if) said reading library is habituated by a small set of people (which is what I suspect since we don't read all that much). <br /><br />By "we", I mean our "generation", not you or me or our company, because that is not representative. <br /><br />Try getting your hands on Janos Kornai's autobiography "By Force of Thought". It's really inspiring and well written. <br /><br />Kornai is a Hungarian economist who was the first voice in economics heard beyond the iron curtain; his dad died in a concentration camp. He describes the difficulties he faced wrt censorship and the ways he sought to avoid it. He's also got a very non-mainstream approach because of the difficulties he faced with the communist regime. <br /><br />He has a famously difficult paper with a Hungarian mathematician where they proved that a centrally planned economy can reach the same sort of equilibrium described by the thoroughly decentralized Arrow-Debreu model. Thus showing how silly that model was. The mathematics in that paper are unbelievably obtuse. I suspect they made it that way to evade suspicion. The mathematician became insane soon after the paper. <br /><br />Courtesy that paper, Kornai was invited to Harvard, where Arrow welcomed him with the smile, saying: "So you put general equilibrium theory in its grave." Recommended. <br /><br />Btw, this all sounds like some oscar type movie doesn't it? Upstart economist with little training breaks through communist lines, insane mathematicians, challenging the mighty gods of economics etc.khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10083241735659476266noreply@blogger.com