Category Archives: The People

As a ten year old, I dreamed of going into space, to the moon. Maybe other places outside the immediate neighborhood. The science fiction books I read encouraged me that such adventures were possible within my lifetime. And until 1981, … Continue reading →

Around the table sat twelve very educated, very intelligent scientists and leaders of scientists, at the sprawling corporate offices of one of the largest pharmaceutical firms in the world. The subject was the presentation of research by a tiny biotech … Continue reading →

In recent years, there has been a challenge to the classical economist’s interpretation of market behavior. From the earliest times of the field of economics, there has been proposed the existence of homo economicus, that is, the “economic man”, a … Continue reading →

I don’t care who you are or how great your store of wisdom, there are times in your life when you are clueless about how you represent yourself.  And those times of befuddlement occur at a frequency rate directly correlated … Continue reading →