By Robert Marc Friedman
ISBN-10: 0716731037
ISBN-13: 9780716731030
Advent: mythical Excellence -- everlasting Battles would certainly be Waged for each Prize -- The Stupidest Use of a Bequest That i will be able to think! -- Coming aside on the Seams -- Sympathy for a space heavily hooked up with my very own distinctiveness -- each one Nobel Prize may be Likened to a Swedish Flag -- Has the Swedish Academy of Sciences ... obvious not anything, Heard not anything, and Understood not anything? -- may still the Nobel Prize Be presented in Wartime? -- whereas the Sores Are nonetheless Dripping Blood! -- Small Popes in Uppsala -- Einstein mustn't ever Get a Nobel Prize -- to sit down on a Nobel Committee Is Like Sitting on Quicksand -- Clamor within the Academy -- do not Shoot the Piano participant, he is Doing the easiest He Can -- it might occur That natural Pettiness Enters -- One should imagine the problem Over two times -- Scandalous site visitors -- striking Dialects -- thoroughly missing an Unambiguous, goal common -- The Knights Templar
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Increasingreturnsisn't an isolatedphenomenon at all: the principle applies to everything in high technology. u"iiliffint-to get ihe first copy out the door. It's the same story in electronics, computers, pharmaceuticals,even aerospace. (Cost for the first 82 bomber: $21 billion. ) High technology could almost be defined as "congealedknowledge," says Arthur. " More than that, every copy offers a chance for learning: getting the yield up on microprocessorchips, and so on. So there's a tremendous reward for increasing production-in short, the systemis governedby increasingreturns.
A few weekslater, in May of 1987, Arthur got a telephonecall from a soft-spokenman who introduced himself as George cowan, from the Santa Fe Institute. Cowan thanked him for agreeingto come to the economics meeting that fall. He and his colleaguestook this meeting very seriously indeed, he explained. And economics in building as wide a network of researchers was very much on its agenda. But what he was really calling for, added Cowan, was that Ken Arrow had suggestedthat the institute invite Arthur to be a visiting fellow that f"ll.
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