Nobody likes to fail, yet failure is a ubiquitous element of our lives. According to Megan McArdle, failing often — and well — is an important source of learning for individuals, organizations, and governments. Although failure is critical in coping with complex environments, our cognitive biases often keep us from drawing the correct lessons and adjusting our behavior. Our psychological aver...
Among other things, Becker successfully challenged the Marxist view that discrimination helps the person who discriminates. Becker pointed out that if an employer refuses to hire a productive worker simply because of skin color, that employer loses out on a valuable opportunity. In short, discrimination is costly to the person who discriminates.
That does not mean that there will be no discrimination. What it does mean is that those who discriminate are at a disadvantage and, therefore, free markets limit the amount of discrimination.
Becker showed that discrimination will be less pervasive in more competitive industries because companies that discriminate will lose market share to companies that do not. He also presented evidence that discrimination is more pervasive in more-regulated, and therefore less-competitive, industries. The idea that discrimination is costly to the discriminator is common sense among economists today, and that is due to Becker.
Architect’s big idea: Tiny, $11,000 house Architect Macy Miller had a big idea: Build a tiny house.
Awesome idea.
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DECEMBER 9th, 16th, 30th, 2013 + JANUARY 6th, 13th, 2014
This five week class is a cross-pollinated investigation of other spaces. Pulling from texts and visionary architectural drawings, we will look at centuries of variant trajectories within which humans have articulated other spaces, be it utopia, heterotopia, or other-wise.
We will begin with Michel Foucault’s “Des Espace Autres,” the basis of a lecture from March 1967, later published by the French journal Architecture in 1984. Throughout the course we will meander through three centuries of architectural drawings (Buckminster Fuller, Yona Friedman, Paul Rudolf, Superstudio, Arata Isozaki, among others), the writings of Henri Lefebvre, Jean Baudrillard, and Hakim Bey, as well as active spaces understood as “other,” such as Fristaden Christiania in Denmark. This course is organized by Jonathan Rajewski and michael phillip brown.
Class will take place on Monday’s in December (9th, 16th, & 30th only) and in January (6th & 13th only) from 6:30p to 8:30p at Public Pool on 3309 Caniff Street, Hamtramck, MI 48212.
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Thoughts For The Day: The Collaborative Effort
Partnering with other entrepreneurs to form a cohesive collective of small businesses provides an experience that draws people in (for example shopping malls). The development and success of small businesses is crucial to continue economically developing the United States. The U.S was originally built on the premise of independent entrepreneurship, which was to be successful due lower barriers of entry and communities supporting each other as a collaboration of resources that nourished the community. Without joining together in collaborative efforts and interdependent support systems, entrepreneurial ventures will eventually become stagnant and die out due to starvation of resources and support.
As a society we need to care and nourish entrepreneurs and small businesses. Many businesses that do survive (especially in lower socio-economical environments) survive because the people that care have an emotional attachment to the entity for it's positive contribution to the civilian/s living here. Quality of life for the majority would be better if we all supported quality work (in terms of product or services) as best we can in order to keep the economical "ecosystem" thriving.
Above: D:Hive panel discussion regarding Detroit's "BizGrid" and resources for entrepreneurs in Detroit