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Thde quality and value of its insights have held up remarkably well
With the exception of devil in the white city this is the best non fiction book ever written that ive read
Nate silver did an excellent job of exposing these areas and suggesting better ways of dealing with the reality of the situation
Krugman believes the velocity of money makes no difference which is at variance with the established theories of economics and ... Read More
Competitiveness
His preferred model in the bayesian approach conceptually right on but oh so difficult to pull off the in the real world
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Otherwise too much exposition and not enough technical detail
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Yet he goes on to expound on the power law scaling of the number of people killed per attack and how that comparess to earthquake
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Yet he had no discussion on the prior of terrorist attack on usa vs
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Worse yet he limits discussion of terrorist incidents from almost exclusively islamic extermists
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Then look at the irish republican army
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All of those sequences of terrorist activities ended when there was political settlements which substantially satisfied the grievances of the population
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Failed to explore an underlying theory and data to only focus on power law description
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The author really breaks down how and where statistics are gathered and passed on to the public and just how skewed these numbers can really be