Philosophy Archives - Sarbojeet Saha https://sarbosaha.com/tag/philosophy/ Independent consultant and entrepreneur Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:48:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 175164789 Why Financialisation Damages Markets and Destroys Value https://sarbosaha.com/why-financialisation-damages-markets-and-destroys-value/ https://sarbosaha.com/why-financialisation-damages-markets-and-destroys-value/#respond Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:42:45 +0000 https://sarbosaha.com/?p=789 When future economic (and regular) historians will look back over the past century of financial crashes and panics, one wonders what they will conclude. They may argue that we sowed the seeds of our own fiscal and financial destruction. If so, they will certainly be correct. We must ask ourselves why this keeps happening. Supposedly, […]

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]]> https://sarbosaha.com/why-financialisation-damages-markets-and-destroys-value/feed/ 0 789 Beware of geeks bearing models https://sarbosaha.com/beware-of-geeks-bearing-models/ https://sarbosaha.com/beware-of-geeks-bearing-models/#respond Sun, 13 Dec 2020 13:05:01 +0000 https://sarbosaha.com/?p=713 Modelling complex phenomena is as much an art as it is a science. The past twenty years have given us a number of examples where models have gone very badly wrong. These examples serve to demonstrate very clearly the inherent dangers of taking models too seriously. Above all, they have shown us that we must […]

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]]> https://sarbosaha.com/the-difference-between-risk-and-uncertainty/feed/ 0 673 How to recover from losing your job https://sarbosaha.com/how-to-recover-from-losing-your-job/ https://sarbosaha.com/how-to-recover-from-losing-your-job/#respond Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:34:39 +0000 https://sarbosaha.com/?p=661 Everyone suffers severe losses at some point in his or her life. In my personal opinion, three of the absolute worst kinds of loss are: the death of a child; divorce (especially for men, who are very often blindsided by them); and losing your job due to a layoff. Each of these events leaves a […]

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