Your occasional reminder that Gary Becker was right. Taste discrimination is a business opportunity. https://t.co/6Xro4Q2fmS
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If skilled labour is being kept out of the workplace for unreasonable reasons then that’s an opportunity for someone else to gain that labour on the cheap. Which is exactly what Dame Steve Shirley did
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What Do Entrepreneurs Actually Do?
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What Do Entrepreneurs Actually Do?
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The wages of sin had a good run @USAMViceFund
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Demonetization in India: Superfluous discovery and money laundering @srajagopalan
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Want to Make a Big Bet on Oil Prices? Try Measuring Shadows | @WSJ
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Chapter 2 – The One Lesson of Business
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Always remember the market test
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What Do Entrepreneurs Actually Do?
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Why women’s pockets suck: @voxdotcom @thegoods spot persistent, known but untapped profit opportunity in supplying unflattering pants to women?
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