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    Cricket and baseball has at least one thing in common, both of them are a very boring game to watch. But baseball has one advantage over cricket, they sell beer in the stadium. Jul 22nd 2010, Economist Comparing cricket with baseball is a good… [...]


  • Why Money Makes You Unhappy

    Everyone knows the law of diminish of return from high school economics textbook. How come the writer sounds like they have discover something now. The more money you have, you will need even more money to give you the same happiness. ItR… [...]


  • Socialist workers

    China is reaching the turning-point, India is probably not far behind. Where the outsourcing will go next? Africa or Middle East? Jun 10th 2010, Economist Is China’s labour market at a turning-point? ON JUNE 7th strikers at a rubber factor… [...]


  • Hong Kong’s economy, End of an experiment

    The minimum wage legislation marks the last straw for Hong Kong’s death. The city is still there, but it is no longer the city once famous for its economy freedom. In 20 years, we will see whose economical policy is right, Cowperthwait… [...]


  • How to Make an American Job Before It’s Too Late – Andy Grove

    Offshore levy sounds like an economical suicide. Protectionism is never the solution. I do agree Andy Grove’s opinion about off source is long term problem as we are losing our technical expertise. My solution is two folds. On techn… [...]


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Useful Jargons

11th Commandment – Thou shalt not get caught.

Betamax

Broken Window Theory

Butterfly Effect

Bystander Effect

Domino Effect

Dunbar’s Number (The Rule of 150)

Economy of Scale

Floodgate Effect

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

Herd Behavior

Holy Grail

Hutber’s Law – Improvement means deterioration.

Hygiene Factor

Invisible Hand

Law of Diminishing Returns

Law of Unintended Consequences

Magical Number Seven

Marginal Utility

Murphy’s Law – If anything can go wrong, it will.

Musical Chair

Nash Equalibrium

Network Effect

Occam’s Razor

Pandora’s Box

Pareto Principle – 80/20 rule

Parkinson’s Law – Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Peter Principle – In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Placebo

Power Law

Prisoner’s Delimma

Rabbit Hole

Ratchet Effect – Processes cannot go backwards once certain things have happened.

Rosetta Stone – Critical key for decryption or translation

Schadenfreude

Sleeping Dragon

Snowball Effect

Streisand Effect

Stockholm Syndrome

Survival of the fittest

System Justification

Third Rail – don’t touch!

Tragedy of the Commons

Weak Anthropic Principle

White Elephant

Witch Hunt

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