Stephen, I was just looking down your list of 'rants', and a book review of Mandlebrot's last book grabbed my attention. It is a book I read quite a few years ago. I was wondering if you bring it into your course and how students would respond to that kind of subject matter. Chris Anderson's book, The Long Tail, would be a really nice book for many students to put on their holiday/summer reading list I would imagine. All about the death of shelf space etc, etc. But it would feed back in a roundabout way then, into Mandlebrot and those theories surely.
The other thing that springs to my mind now, is that there are different types of shelf space in a place such as Limerick city nowadays, that were never there before. Existing shelf space that was always there, is going through all kinds of traumatic transformation - at least each decade as far as I can see. Not to mention empty retail units with no shelf at all. I quizzed a long time trader on this a couple of years back, and they told me this kind of churn of businesses had always been a feature of the environment in cities. I am not so sure though, that some of the upheaval we see today, was always there.
Niall
30/05/2011 at 7:32 pm
Oops.... I should really watch what im pasting, im guessing you know what Economics is 🙂 Interesting talk, had a link to add, ill find it again
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
Thanks for the video link. B.
I have read that somewhere before Niall 🙂
Stephen, I was just looking down your list of 'rants', and a book review of Mandlebrot's last book grabbed my attention. It is a book I read quite a few years ago. I was wondering if you bring it into your course and how students would respond to that kind of subject matter. Chris Anderson's book, The Long Tail, would be a really nice book for many students to put on their holiday/summer reading list I would imagine. All about the death of shelf space etc, etc. But it would feed back in a roundabout way then, into Mandlebrot and those theories surely.
The other thing that springs to my mind now, is that there are different types of shelf space in a place such as Limerick city nowadays, that were never there before. Existing shelf space that was always there, is going through all kinds of traumatic transformation - at least each decade as far as I can see. Not to mention empty retail units with no shelf at all. I quizzed a long time trader on this a couple of years back, and they told me this kind of churn of businesses had always been a feature of the environment in cities. I am not so sure though, that some of the upheaval we see today, was always there.
Oops.... I should really watch what im pasting, im guessing you know what Economics is 🙂 Interesting talk, had a link to add, ill find it again