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2021-07-08T14:19:00.001-04:00

A theory that “elite overproduction” leads to political instability (2020)

Can too many brainy people be a dangerous thing?

Some academics argue that unhappy elites lead to political instability

Ten years ago Peter Turchin, a scientist at the University of Connecticut, made a startling prediction in Nature. “The next decade is likely to be a period of growing instability in the United States and western Europe,” he asserted, pointing in part to the “overproduction of young graduates with advanced degrees”. The subsequent surge in populism in Europe, the unexpected votes in 2016 for Brexit and then for President Donald Trump in America, and a wave of protests from the gilets jaunes to Black Lives Matter, has made Mr Turchin something of a celebrity in certain circles, and has piqued economists’ interest in the discipline of “cliodynamics”, which uses maths to model historical change. Mr Turchin’s emphasis on the “overproduction of elites” raises uncomfortable questions, but also offers useful policy lessons.

https://archive.is/HrVFy

2021-05-14T16:06:00.001-04:00

The Use of Knowledge in Society

Understand

2021-04-02T09:26:00.002-04:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understand_(story)

https://twitter.com/nopara73/status/1377715263475486720

2021-02-02T21:04:00.001-05:00

A Brief History of Consumer Culture

Over the course of the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff.

2020-12-27T18:50:00.001-05:00

Introduction to René Girard

2020-12-16T21:55:00.001-05:00

You have a situation now where there are many more elites fighting for the same position, and some portion of them will convert to counter-elites

2020-12-16T21:49:00.004-05:00

A Short Story for Engineers

Cool

2009-12-18T09:32:00.000-05:00

1HGEM1155YL084242

2009-07-31T16:05:00.003-04:00

My 2000 Honda Civic Si with VIN# 1HGEM1155YL084242 was stolen on June 8 2009

If you have any information about this car email me at sifan@m1ck.com

The Spirit of Learning

2009-07-28T08:39:00.002-04:00

Sup

2009-06-18T10:31:00.000-04:00

Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world

2009-04-20T11:56:00.004-04:00

1. What is fragile should break early while it is still small. Nothing should ever become too big
to fail. Evolution in economic life helps those with the maximum amount of hidden risks – and
hence the most fragile – become the biggest.

2. No socialisation of losses and privatisation of gains. Whatever may need to be bailed out
should be nationalised; whatever does not need a bail-out should be free, small and riskbearing.
We have managed to combine the worst of capitalism and socialism. In France in the
1980s, the socialists took over the banks. In the US in the 2000s, the banks took over the
government. This is surreal.

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/tenprinciples.pdf

2009-01-21T14:53:00.000-05:00

Official Google Blog: The global Zeitgeist

2008-12-10T16:40:00.000-05:00

Delve deeper into this year’s top searches

2008-11-19T16:46:00.001-05:00

More Movie, film and book lists added,
to listmania

2008-06-27T08:47:00.001-04:00

Star ratings: test

2008-06-17T08:37:00.000-04:00

2008-04-10T11:54:00.001-04:00

meme clouds launched!!!
A new Meme aggregation method that attempts to cut down on the signal to noise ratio by figuring out what is the most talked about topics ranging from news to entertainments.
The most used phrases are put in a tag clouds or .... "meme clouds"

Blogger JavaScript API

2007-11-19T07:32:00.001-05:00

Blog This - simple editor using the Blogger JavaScript API

2007-09-04T16:17:00.000-04:00

The site has launched!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.listmania.cc/

2006-08-18T16:01:00.000-04:00

Codefetch Tools for Users and Webmasters

2006-08-17T13:55:00.000-04:00

My Amazon Web Service

2006-08-16T08:33:00.000-04:00

m1ck 2.0

Redesign of famous logos in web 2.0 format!

2006-07-26T17:19:00.000-04:00

www.m1ck.net

2005-10-21T16:23:00.000-04:00

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