Why weak ties are strong for job searches. Flickr photo by pvickering Mark Granovetter is famous for uncovering the strength of weak ties in job searches (i.e., that weaker ties ironically are more helpful in landing jobs than one’s close friends).
Granoveter, after interviewing job seekers, posited that it was because one’s close friends tie one back to jobs and job leads that one already knew about whereas weak ties connected one to jobs that one hadn’t heard of. Sandra Smith, sociology at Berkeley, is doing interesting work uncovering the why. She’s interviewed 157 workers of various races and various job levels at a public university (Berkeley?) To learn of cases where they did and didn’t help people land jobs and what was good or bad about the experience.
She spoke of one interesting case, “Redmond”, who worked in a growing university department that was hiring 30 new people and whose manager asked workers to help refer good employees. Why The Worst Is Still Ahead For Turkey's Bubble Economy. Documentation by Version. Emerging Europe: Regional Economic Review – 4Q 2013. GraphSketch. Game Theory, Behavioral Finance, and Investing: Part 1 of 5. Watching the market this year has been like observing an exercise in game theory and behavioral finance, and the two fields are closely related.
Game theory is the study of how a rational person makes decisions in uncertain situations. As the name suggests, game theory was developed with the intent of developing optimal strategies in games in which chance or the decisions of an opponent play a role in your outcome. Game theory focuses on how rational players can make the best decisions to maximize their satisfaction. Behavioral finance adds the nuance that, in real life, people do not necessarily have all available information and, even if they do, they often make decisions that are inconsistent with those made by a perfectly-rational and fully-informed decision maker. There is a huge literature of both game theory applied to financial decisions and behavioral finance.
The games on Wall Street come in a variety of forms. Related Links: Folio Investing The brokerage with a better way. Oyun Teorisi (Yale) (Prof. Ben Polak) Game Theory .net - Resources for Learning and Teaching Strategy for Business and Life. 615b011fac6af294b469bb3c7da05dd8c1f68e87. The Costs of “Good” Economics.
If there is a central argument to 13 Bankers, it is that politics matters.
The financial crisis was the result of a long-term transformation of the financial sector and its place in the overall economy, and that transformation occurred because of—and contributed to—a shift in the political balance of power. Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, authors of Why Nations Fail, take up this theme on a much broader scale in their recent article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, “Economics Versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice,” burnishing their reputations as two of the most subversive thinkers around.
People have always known that economics and politics are related: that economic power produces political power and that political institutions constrain economic policy choices. This is what Acemoglu and Robinson contest. One specific consequence of weaker unions is that “income will typically be redistributed from workers to the managers and owners of firms.” This all seems obvious. Nail Satlıgan Marx'ı ve Das Kapital'i anlatıyor! Nail Satlıgan’la Kapital üzerine… Karl Marks’ın başyapıtı Das Kapital’in birinci cildinin Almanca aslından yapılmış Türkçe çevirisi Nisan 2011′de okurla sunuldu. 2005′te yaşamını yitiren Mehmet Selik’in yarım kalmış çabasını kaldığı yerden sürdüren Nail Satlıgan’la Kapital’in Türkçedeki çeviri serüveni, Kapital’in önemi ve güncelliği üzerine konuştuk.
Kapital’in Almanca orijinalinden yapılan çeviri hangi yanlış anlamaları gideriyor? Marks’ın başyapıtı olmakla birlikte tamamlayamadığı bu esere yönelik eleştiriler ne kadar haklı? Antonio Gramsci, “Bolşevik Devrimi” ile ilgili olarak “Kapital’e karşı devrim” derken neyi kastetti? Kapital’in teorik mirası 21. yüzyılda nasıl sürdürülecek?
Kapital neden okunması zor bir eser? Merhabalar hocam. Kimsenin hakkını yememek için biraz daha geriye gidelim. İkinci girişim, bizim bu yayınımızda ortak çevirmen olarak yer alan Mehmet Selik’in Sol Yayınları’nda başlayıp Odak Yayınları’nda devam eden, gene Almancadan yapılan çeviri. Ama şöyle bir durum var. Evet. Oldu, evet. BİZ KİMİZ. Erkin Özalp.