Remember the presentation we were working on? Well, we presented it, but before I start talking about the actual presentation I will tell you what happened before.
We had lunch, and it was delicious. While we were having lunch we each sat down next to a teacher in order to tell them about the MPC. I sat down next to a doctor and next to a guy who runs the economic experiments here at the university. We chatted over what the MPC was about, and I think I gave them a good idea.
So then it was time to present. I was the first one to start so I gave the introduction. Afterwards I remained as the person who changed all the slides. I think everyone did a great job. After the presentation we had a dialogue with everyone in the room, and I also thought it went well. We also gave a tour of the MPC space.
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Wayne A. Leighton
Our guest today was Wayne A. Leighton, and he came to talk about his new book Madmen, Intellectuals and Academic Scribblers: The Economic Engine of Political Change.
His books main question is: where does political change come from? By political change we mean political outcome, change within a society or the rules that certain groups have. His book is mostly about how changing rules (or institutions as he names this) affect human behavior. Rules create incentives and by changing incentives you can change behavior.
The three main question of his book are the following: 1) why do democracies generate inefficient and unjust policies? 2) why do failed policies persist, even when better alternatives exist? 3) why do failed policies sometimes get replaced with better ideas?
The framework of the book is: ideas determine institutions, institutions shape incentives and incentives matter.
the main characters of his book are 3: the Madmen, Intellectuals, Academic Scribblers.
Things happen when ideas and circumstances meet.
I really enjoyed this dialogue, now I want to buy the book and read it.
His books main question is: where does political change come from? By political change we mean political outcome, change within a society or the rules that certain groups have. His book is mostly about how changing rules (or institutions as he names this) affect human behavior. Rules create incentives and by changing incentives you can change behavior.
The three main question of his book are the following: 1) why do democracies generate inefficient and unjust policies? 2) why do failed policies persist, even when better alternatives exist? 3) why do failed policies sometimes get replaced with better ideas?
The framework of the book is: ideas determine institutions, institutions shape incentives and incentives matter.
the main characters of his book are 3: the Madmen, Intellectuals, Academic Scribblers.
Things happen when ideas and circumstances meet.
I really enjoyed this dialogue, now I want to buy the book and read it.
Math in the Morning.
Today was Diego's Morning Meeting. I really liked his presentation and you could tell he put a lot of effort into it. He started out by giving a small presentation on how to double and quadruple numbers easier. He showed us two methods and had us do some exercises. When one of us got an answer right Diego would give us a candy. I really found this entertaining.
He later showed us a rap video of Hayek vs. Keynes. I had already seen this video when I used to be in business. I have always enjoyed this video and learned a lot from it, but this wasn't the case for everyone. Those didn't have an economy class in their background didn't get it. There were only about 5 of us laughing at the video and shaking our heads.
The last thing he showed us was a video about the right way to eat cupcakes. I found this hilarious. I never had really thought that there were certain ways to eat a cupcake. As a treat and to practice, Diego brought us some cupcakes to eat.
He later showed us a rap video of Hayek vs. Keynes. I had already seen this video when I used to be in business. I have always enjoyed this video and learned a lot from it, but this wasn't the case for everyone. Those didn't have an economy class in their background didn't get it. There were only about 5 of us laughing at the video and shaking our heads.
The last thing he showed us was a video about the right way to eat cupcakes. I found this hilarious. I never had really thought that there were certain ways to eat a cupcake. As a treat and to practice, Diego brought us some cupcakes to eat.
John Blundell
Today we were joined by John Blundell and Giancarlo.
John is the author of Margaret Thatcher: A Portrait of the Iron Lady and an honorary professor at UFM. We were supposed to explain what the MPC was about, in order for John to get an idea of what we are about, but instead we we talked about the rubrics and never really got around to the subject of the MPC. We talked about the importance of rules and more stuff about rules. I tried to intervene once by saying that the MPC was a college for students created by students with hopes that someone would see that as a start to talk about the MPC, but this didnt happen.
All I can say is that, for me. this dialogue was a disaster.
John is the author of Margaret Thatcher: A Portrait of the Iron Lady and an honorary professor at UFM. We were supposed to explain what the MPC was about, in order for John to get an idea of what we are about, but instead we we talked about the rubrics and never really got around to the subject of the MPC. We talked about the importance of rules and more stuff about rules. I tried to intervene once by saying that the MPC was a college for students created by students with hopes that someone would see that as a start to talk about the MPC, but this didnt happen.
All I can say is that, for me. this dialogue was a disaster.
Consilience 1,2 & 3
The first couple of chapters in this book are a bridge to really start getting to know what the enlightenment is about, this was the beginning of our dialogue. We related this book to the MPC, in the sense that it talks about unifying knowledge and different fields of study in order to see them as a whole. This, I think, is really the heart of the MPC.
We also discussed that one of the main points or reasons of why the book was written was to discover why we are here. When we have unified enough certain knowledge, we will understand who we are and why we were created.
We found out what Wilson's Metaquestion was. It is What its the relationship between science and humanities?
We also discussed that one of the main points or reasons of why the book was written was to discover why we are here. When we have unified enough certain knowledge, we will understand who we are and why we were created.
We found out what Wilson's Metaquestion was. It is What its the relationship between science and humanities?
TED Morning Meeting
Today we had a TED morning meeting. We were supposed to watch more than one TED talk but we ended up watching only one. The one we watched was a great one given my Steven Johnson titled "Where Do Good Ideas Come from". It made me see things differently, specially in the way of generating ideas. Now I understand why Bert likes us to have Agora. I really enjoyed most of all the anecdote of the GPS.
This was actually the fist TED talk I have ever seen and I do think it is a good idea if we have more TED Morning Meetings.
This was actually the fist TED talk I have ever seen and I do think it is a good idea if we have more TED Morning Meetings.
Thinking Fast & Slow Ch. 1, 2
Our dialogue started out with the flexibility of system 1 and we came to the conclusion that it depended on the person, for example, not everyone can intuitively play chess. Other times people become lazy even though their system 1 is very developed, maybe it is because they think so much already.
One of the things that I found interesting was that something that was part of your system 2 becomes part of your system 1. Like driving a car, at the beginning one has a hard time driving, one thinks about everything going on and the technicalities of how to drive. After driving for a while and consecutively the driving system becomes automatic and it becomes an intuition (system 1).
Another thing I found interesting is that after using your system 2 too much you have less will power, meaning that it is harder to decline a cookie or a cupcake after working on math problems.
One of the things that I found interesting was that something that was part of your system 2 becomes part of your system 1. Like driving a car, at the beginning one has a hard time driving, one thinks about everything going on and the technicalities of how to drive. After driving for a while and consecutively the driving system becomes automatic and it becomes an intuition (system 1).
Another thing I found interesting is that after using your system 2 too much you have less will power, meaning that it is harder to decline a cookie or a cupcake after working on math problems.
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