"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. "
J. M. Keynes
"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. "
Peter F. Drucker
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but I'd like to know him better still
This blog offers a mixture of genealogy, confused contrarian ideas and selected b*y ruminations.
Pablo Carpintero
- Pablo Carpintero
- your devoted servant, is a happily retired economist, and way too old to mend his ways. Pablo knows that many economists have the perfidious tendency to turn into professional idiots. That's why his rule of life is to be as contrarian as possible, and then some ...
A recent picture of me ...
A guy I have known for almost 70 years
but I'd like to know him better still
Economists ...
who take themselves too seriously tend to be dangerous people. Therefore see http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/JokEc.html, the perfect antidose - whenever the link works ...
Contrarian ?
"WHENEVER YOU FIND YOURSELF ON THE SIDE OF THE MAJORITY, IT IS TIME TO PAUSE AND REFLECT. "
(Marc Twain)
(Marc Twain)
Genealogy
is a passion, not a hobby.
This blog
is dedicated to most of my nieces who think genealogy is a total loss of time. It is also dedicated to the one who protests she never said that and who helped me develop this blog.
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3 comments:
I can see you're having fun on your blog.
Don' forget to check your comments and respond to them. Otherwise it isn't so nice for us to visit....
he's just being contrarian ;-)
I'm deadly serious, I think ...
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