First, the term translated as “judge” denotes a habit of sharp, unjust criticism. The Greek term is krinete, from which our English word, “critic,” comes. We’re not talking about judging in the sense that we may think of it, but criticism. Notice what follows: how we judge is...
This was a sharp contrast with what happened in the first night Iaudited Jack Hirshleifer in the fall of 1962. I raised a seemingly irrelevantquestion. Jack stood up and asked for my name. When he could not find it on hisstudent list because I was an auditor, he wrote down my name ...
By Steven Hill, March 29, 2010,E!Sharp Europe is going through another one of its occasional bouts of self-doubt and pessimism. The great historian Arnold Toynbee once wrote, “Countries have characters that are as distinctive as those of human beings.” The collection of countries known as ...
and which in all likelihood will be recorded in the economic history of China. It began in the fall of 1967, when I walked into Ronald’s office at the Chicago Law School and introduced myself: “Professor Coase, my name is Steven Cheung, a student of Alchian, I had spent several...