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Nigel Marsh – best-selling author, renowned advertising CEO, public speaker and life coach. Henry Hazlitt. Ludwig von Mises. Robert Prechter. Robert R. Prechter, Jr. (born 1949) is an American author and stock market analyst, known for his financial forecasts using the Elliott Wave Principle. Prechter is an author and co-author of 14 books, and editor of 2 books,[1] his book Conquer the Crash is a New York Times bestseller.[2] He also has published monthly financial commentary in the newsletter The Elliott Wave Theorist since 1979, and is the founder of Elliott Wave International and New Classics Library.[3][4] Prechter served on the board of the Market Technicians Association for nine years, and as the Association's President in 1990-1991.

In recent years Prechter has supported the study of socionomics, a theory about human social behavior.[5][6] Biography[edit] Prechter attended Yale University and graduated with a B.A. degree in psychology in 1971. So I tracked down R.N. Prechter has also said, "after I decided to make markets a career, I realized that mass psychology is what they're all about. " [8] Prominence[edit] Homma Munehisa. Munehisa Homma (本間 宗久, Honma Munehisa?) (also known as Sokyu Homma, Sokyu Honma) (1724-1803), was a rice merchant from Sakata, Japan who traded in the Dojima Rice market in Osaka during the Tokugawa Shogunate. He is sometimes considered to be the father of the candlestick chart. Until about 1710, only physical rice was traded but then a futures market emerged where coupons, promising delivery of rice at a future time, began to be issued. From this, a secondary market of coupon trading emerged in which Munehisa flourished.

Stories claim that he established a personal network of men about every 6 km between Sakata and Osaka (a distance of some 600 km) to communicate market prices. [1] In 1755, he wrote (三猿金泉秘録, San-en Kinsen Hiroku, The Fountain of Gold - The Three Monkey Record of Money), the first book on market psychology. He describes the rotation of Yang (a bull market), and Yin (a bear market) and claims that within each type of market is an instance of the other type. See also[edit] Barry Schwartz: Homepage. 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397 Phone: (610) 328-8418 • Fax: (610) 328-7814 • Email: bschwar1@swarthmore.edu —web design by Gerald Tan '04—

Nisargadatta Maharaj. Nisargadatta Maharaj /ˌnɪsərɡəˈdɑːtə ˌmæhəˈrɑːdʒ/ (April 17, 1897 – September 8, 1981), born Maruti Shivrampant Kambli, was an Indian spiritual teacher and philosopher of Advaita (Nondualism), and a Guru, belonging to the Inchgiri branch of the Navnath Sampradaya. In 1973, the publication of his most famous and widely translated book, I Am That, an English translation of his talks in Marathi by Maurice Frydman, brought him worldwide recognition and followers.[1] Biography[edit] Early life[edit] In 1915, after his father died, he moved to Bombay to support his family back home, following his elder brother.

In 1924 he married Sumatibai and they had three daughters and a son. Awakening[edit] In 1933, he was introduced to his guru, Siddharameshwar Maharaj, the head of the Inchegiri branch of the Navnath Sampradaya, by his friend Yashwantrao Baagkar. My Guru ordered me to attend to the sense 'I am' and to give attention to nothing else. Later years[edit] Style of teaching[edit] Teachings[edit] Films. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D. - Workshops & Events. From 1974-76, and then again from 1983-94, Stephen, (Narayan) maintained a private psychotherapy practice. In addition, he traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe presenting workshops until late 1999.

In December 2000, he stopped traveling and offering workshops to the general public and began offering retreats every 1 1/2 to 2 years. At that time, these retreats were open only by invitation. In November 2007, Stephen, (Narayan) began to offer two retreats per year (Fall and Spring) to all of those who were interested. At the present time there will be only one semi-residential retreat every year and a half which will, (at the present time), remain open to all of those who are interested. * Workshop in 2014 October 2014 A Seventeen Day Intensive The Teaching Mastery of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Madhyamika Buddhism:The Eight Negations of Nagarjuna Quantum 2.0:The Vedanta of Advaita-Vedanta Advaita: Reflections of the Absolute The Absolute Prior to Consciousness. Peter Checkland. Peter Checkland (born 18 December 1930, in Birmingham, UK) is a British management scientist and emeritus professor of Systems at Lancaster University.

He is the developer of soft systems methodology (SSM): a methodology based on a way of systems thinking. Biography[edit] He worked in the industry for 15 years as a manager in ICI's chemicals business. At the end of the 1960s he joined the pioneering department of Systems Engineering at Lancaster University, where he became professor of Systems. At Lancaster he led a programme of action research. This research team developed a new way of tackling problem situations faced by managers - Soft Systems Methodology.

The SSM approach is now used and taught worldwide.[2] Since the 1990s he is Professor Emeritus of Systems in Lancaster University Management School. In 1986 Peter Checkland was president of the Society for General Systems Research, now International Society for the Systems Sciences. See also[edit] Publications[edit] References[edit] Francisco J. Ayala. Francisco José Ayala Pereda (born March 12, 1934) is a Spanish-American biologist and philosopher at the University of California, Irvine. He is a former Dominican priest,[2][3] ordained in 1960,[4] but left the priesthood that same year. After graduating from the University of Salamanca, he moved to the US in 1961 to study for a PhD at Columbia University.

There, he studied for his doctorate under Theodosius Dobzhansky, graduating in 1964.[5] He became a US citizen in 1971. Research and work[edit] He has been publicly critical of U.S. restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. He attended the Beyond Belief symposium on November 2006. Awards and honors[edit] In 2001, Ayala was awarded the National Medal of Science.[9] On April 13, 2007, he was awarded the first of 100 bicentennial medals at Mount Saint Mary's University for lecturing there as the first presenter for the Bicentennial Distinguished Lecture Series. Personal life[edit] Books[edit] Ayala, F.J.

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Immanuel Kant. Immanuel Kant (/kænt/;[1] German: [ɪˈmaːnu̯eːl kant]; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher who is widely considered to be a central figure of modern philosophy. He argued that fundamental concepts structure human experience, and that reason is the source of morality. His thought continues to have a major influence in contemporary thought, especially the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics.[2] Kant's major work, the Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft, 1781),[3] aimed to explain the relationship between reason and human experience.

With this project, he hoped to move beyond what he took to be failures of traditional philosophy and metaphysics. He attempted to put an end to what he considered an era of futile and speculative theories of human experience, while resisting the skepticism of thinkers such as David Hume. Kant argued that our experiences are structured by necessary features of our minds. [edit] Michel Foucault. Born in Poitiers, France to an upper-middle-class family, Foucault was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV and then the École Normale Supérieure, where he developed an interest in philosophy and came under the influence of his tutors Jean Hyppolite and Louis Althusser.

After several years as a cultural diplomat abroad, he returned to France and published his first major book, The History of Madness. After obtaining work between 1960 and 1966 at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, he produced two more significant publications, The Birth of the Clinic and The Order of Things, which displayed his increasing involvement with structuralism, a theoretical movement in social anthropology from which he later distanced himself.

These first three histories were examples of a historiographical technique Foucault was developing which he called "archaeology". Early life[edit] Youth: 1926–1946[edit] "I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school... École Normale Supérieure: 1946–1951[edit] Ivan Illich. Ivan Illich (/ɪˈvɑːn ˈɪlɪtʃ/;[1] 4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and "maverick social critic"[2] of the institutions of contemporary Western culture and their effects on the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, transportation, and economic development. Personal life[edit] He wrote a dissertation focusing on the historian Arnold J. Toynbee and would return to that subject in his later years. In 1951, he "signed up to become a parish priest in one of New York’s poorest neighborhoods—Washington Heights, on the northern tip of Manhattan, then a barrio of fresh-off-the-airplane Puerto Rican immigrants.

In 1961, Illich founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación (fr) (CIDOC, or Intercultural Documentation Center) at Cuernavaca in Mexico, ostensibly a research center offering language courses to missionaries from North America and volunteers of the Alliance for Progress program[5] initiated by John F. Contributors. The Gross Mismanagement of Mexico's Oil Industry. Mexico should be rich. Instead, the country provides a disheartening example of what author P.J. O’Rourke might call “making nothing from everything.” We’ve been trekking around the Pacific Coast – well, a very small part of it – for the past week or so. The stretch between Puerto Vallarta and Sayulita – about 40 miles – boasts some of the most pristine coastland your Aussie-born editor has ever seen. It is the type that might inspire California’s “trustafarian” community to erect multi-million dollar beachfront mansions, around which they would shoot opening credit footage for teen reality shows about the trials and tribulations of the good life.

But down here, the towns are tiny, peaceful and conspicuously devoid of L.A. The locals, at least from what we’ve seen, are an especially hard-working bunch. But so what? The real wealth, of course, is to the east, in the Gulf of Mexico. “After decades of production,” continues Byron, “Cantarell is getting long in the tooth. Eve Ensler | Playwright, Performer and Activist. Juan Enriquez | Managing Director, Excel Venture Management. The Recession Started 35 Million Years Ago | Laurie Santos. Paul Allen. Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist, best known as the co-founder, with Bill Gates, of Microsoft Corporation.

As of March 2013, he was estimated to be the 53rd-richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $15 billion.[1] He is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc., which manages his various business and philanthropic efforts. Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio including technology companies, real estate holdings, and stakes in other technology, media, and content companies. Allen also owns two professional sports teams, the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL),[2] and the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).[3] He is also part-owner of the Seattle Sounders FC, which joined Major League Soccer (MLS) in 2009.[4] Early life and career[edit] Microsoft[edit] Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1982.

Recognition[edit] Paul G. Customer Reviews: The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future. As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth (9780609609033): Juan Enriquez. Juan Enriquez: Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge: Stewart Brand and The Long Now Foundation: Movies & TV. 3RD CULTURE BIO. Robert Engle | Nobel Prize-Winning Economist. We live in a time of information abundance, which far too many of us see as information overload. With the sum total of human knowledge, past and present, at our fingertips, we’re faced with a crisis of attention: which ideas should we engage with, and why?

Big Think is an evolving roadmap to the best thinking on the planet — the ideas that can help you think flexibly and act decisively in a multivariate world. A word about Big Ideas and Themes — The architecture of Big Think Big ideas are lenses for envisioning the future. Every article and video on bigthink.com and on our learning platforms is based on an emerging “big idea” that is significant, widely relevant, and actionable. We’re sifting the noise for the questions and insights that have the power to change all of our lives, for decades to come. For example, reverse-engineering is a big idea in that the concept is increasingly useful across multiple disciplines, from education to nanotechnology.

Nouriel Roubini | Professor of Economics, New York University. We live in a time of information abundance, which far too many of us see as information overload. With the sum total of human knowledge, past and present, at our fingertips, we’re faced with a crisis of attention: which ideas should we engage with, and why? Big Think is an evolving roadmap to the best thinking on the planet — the ideas that can help you think flexibly and act decisively in a multivariate world. A word about Big Ideas and Themes — The architecture of Big Think Big ideas are lenses for envisioning the future. Every article and video on bigthink.com and on our learning platforms is based on an emerging “big idea” that is significant, widely relevant, and actionable.

We’re sifting the noise for the questions and insights that have the power to change all of our lives, for decades to come. For example, reverse-engineering is a big idea in that the concept is increasingly useful across multiple disciplines, from education to nanotechnology. Jean-Pierre Rosso | Chairman, World Economic Forum USA. We live in a time of information abundance, which far too many of us see as information overload.

With the sum total of human knowledge, past and present, at our fingertips, we’re faced with a crisis of attention: which ideas should we engage with, and why? Big Think is an evolving roadmap to the best thinking on the planet — the ideas that can help you think flexibly and act decisively in a multivariate world. A word about Big Ideas and Themes — The architecture of Big Think Big ideas are lenses for envisioning the future. Every article and video on bigthink.com and on our learning platforms is based on an emerging “big idea” that is significant, widely relevant, and actionable. We’re sifting the noise for the questions and insights that have the power to change all of our lives, for decades to come.

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