Here's how Volkswagen's system for fooling the emission tests worked: nyti.ms/1Fdlcus http://t.co/U7hlLejNK0—
NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) September 22, 2015
Entrepreneurial alertness in vehicle emissions testing
23 Sep 2015 1 Comment
in economics of crime, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, survivor principle, transport economics Tags: air pollution, entrepreneurial alertness, vehicle emissions testing, Volkswagen
Mises on entrepreneurs and consumer sovereignty
21 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, economic history, industrial organisation, Ludwig von Mises, survivor principle Tags: competition and monopoly, consumer sovereignty, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, market selection, The meaning of competition
I am still not using that piece of junk #windows10
19 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in administration, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, Microsoft, Windows
After a solid launch, 75 million devices are already running #Windows10
statista.com/chart/3772/ope… http://t.co/ORemyeOGNz—
Statista (@StatistaCharts) September 04, 2015
The Software That Detects When a Cat Is Messing with Your Keyboard
15 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in cats, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship Tags: entrepreneurial alertness
The Software That Detects When a Cat Is Messing with Your Keyboard:
priceonomics.com/the-software-t… http://t.co/6dkU6e8ors—
Priceonomics (@priceonomics) September 09, 2015
Creative destruction in mainframe computers
04 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness
First IBM computer, the IBM 702 Mainframe, 1955 http://t.co/TU4hqVrtGT—
OnThisDay & Facts (@NotableHistory) August 22, 2015
Creative destruction in Silicon Valley
29 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: competition as a discovery procedure, creative destruction, efficient markets hypothesis, entrepreneurial alertness, ICT, Silicon Valley
Surging #SiliconValley — in 5 charts ow.ly/Qftvp http://t.co/1bGCz8G1dB—
(@AEI) July 29, 2015
#Drones and entrepreneurial alertness in thieving
27 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, technological progress Tags: creative destruction, crime and punishment, drones, entrepreneurial alertness
I welcome #amazon drones. But I also think future drone rustlers will shoot down or net them. New crime opportunity. http://t.co/KjAuqhA8Lm—
Danny Rose (@_DannyRose) July 30, 2015
@NZGreens @GreenpeaceNZ @PeakOil and peak #coal are in the past
25 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics Tags: antimarket bias, devastate prophecies, entrepreneurial alertness, peak coal, peak oil, rational ignorance
The evolution of American energy consumption since 1776 businessinsider.com/evolution-of-a… http://t.co/APT8NQZfmg—
Elena Holodny (@elenaholodny) August 21, 2015
Average Income for the top 0.01%
24 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, top 0.01%, top 0.1%, top 1%
Average Income for the top 0.01% since 1913 bit.ly/1wZhZHE #inequality http://t.co/a6w7xo2Kqq—
Catherine Mulbrandon (@VisualEcon) November 03, 2014
Where is it easiest to start a business?
20 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation Tags: cost of doing business, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, freedom of entry
Where is it easiest to start a business? Explore the fully interactive map. buff.ly/1GPl5DM #progress http://t.co/YlN3vtfKpt—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) June 18, 2015
Julian Simon and William Buckley on Cross–Fire
18 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, environmentalism, liberalism, resource economics Tags: commodity prices, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, Julian Simon, peak oil, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, William Buckley
Has the ‘Peak Oil’ drama peaked?
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, resource economics Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, peak oil, The Great Enrichment
Roger Kerr, New Zealand Business Roundtable Executive Director
Remember Peak Oil? Just a few years ago Green Party leaders Jeanette Fitzsimons and Russell Norman routinely issued warnings about ‘the world running out of oil’ and told us that we needed to move freight off roads and on to shipping and rail, and commuters out of cars and on to trains, buses and bicycles.
They weren’t alone of course. An April 2006 article in The Economist reported that:
For years a small group of geologists has been claiming that the world has started to grow short of oil, that alternatives cannot possible replace it and that an imminent peak in production will lead to economic disaster. In recent months this view has gained wider acceptance on Wall Street and in the media. Recent books on oil have bewailed the threat. Every few weeks, its seems, “Out of Gas”, “The Empty Tank” and “The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can…
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Julian Simon on Resources, Growth and Human Progress
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmentalism, health economics, liberalism, resource economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, commodity prices, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, Julian Simon, life expectancies, peak oil, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Creative destruction in advertising revenue
16 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, legacy media
Soon American internet-ad revenue will surpass newspapers, magazines and billboards combined econ.st/1GjiIny http://t.co/17pxfdVWcE—
The World in 2015 (@EconWorldin) July 14, 2015

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