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Thesis 1: Flat rates mean that the vast majority of light users subsidize a small minority of heavy users. Thesis 2: Flat rates lead with a high probability to lower revenue and profits. From an economic standpoint, flat rate s make no sense.
Hermann Simon • Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything
La science économique a même donné son nom à cet homme nouveau se prenant lui-même comme horizon de toute chose : l’homo economicus, l’individu réduit à la seule quête de la maximisation de ses intérêts personnels.
Raphael Glucksmann • Les Enfants du vide - De l'impasse individualiste au réveil citoyen (French Edition)
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)
William Poundstone • 3 highlights
amazon.comBerne Declaration
Brett Scott • Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money
Packy McCormick • Pipe: Business-Funding Fit
The cost of the universities is stunning and can’t be sustained.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
ask them what the assumptions are behind their models, and under what circumstances they would be violated. You would be surprised how often they can’t give me a clear answer.” Summers was reportedly paid $5 million for playing this role, so it must have been perceived as valuable.
Thomas H. Davenport • Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics
The end or modification of the student loan system will suddenly limit not only how much universities can raise costs but whether they can maintain them.