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Via the WSJ’s Real Time Economics blog, PayScale has released the results of a study that attempts to provide an ROI for college education. From the WSJ: The study surveyed results from self-reported compensation data from 1.4 million college graduates across 852 public and private institutions. ROIs were calculated based on the cost of college [...]
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When I used to teach undergraduate courses in International Relations and Security I would typically start any balance of power lecture by making students guess how much the United States spent on the military versus the rest of the world. At that time, the United States spent as much as the next 12 largest spenders [...]
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
