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A milestone in the fast changing business of education: Georgia Tech, one of the top computer science programs in the country, is offering an online masters degree in computer science for just $7,000. Unlike competitors who price their online degrees about the same as their residential ones, Georgia Tech decided to charge just enough to cover costs. From the New York Times article:
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Economics: The Remarkable Story of How the Economy Works
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Fixed: Why Personal Finance Is Broken and How to Make It Work for Everyone:
"Fixed is a terrific book about how badly broken personal finance is—and what should be done about it. I particularly appreciated the unique (to my knowledge) way in which this book is deeply grounded in international scholarship, drawing especially o"
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“The laws you see today are a direct consequence of economic illiteracy in the general population. If every voter learned economics tonight, the laws would change tomorrow.”
― Economics: The Remarkable Story of How the Economy Works
― Economics: The Remarkable Story of How the Economy Works
“It’s important to keep in mind that in economics, the value of something to a person refers solely to the amount of other things that the person is willing and able to give up for it—nothing more.”
― Economics: The Remarkable Story of How the Economy Works
― Economics: The Remarkable Story of How the Economy Works
“The free market system works by channeling our deep-seated selfishness into socially useful actions. The”
― Economics: The Remarkable Story of How the Economy Works
― Economics: The Remarkable Story of How the Economy Works
“Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.”
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
“There was a Princess Somebody of Denmark sitting at a table with a number of people around her, and I saw an empty chair at their table and sat down.
She turned to me and said, "Oh! You're one of the Nobel-Prize-winners. In what field did you do your work?"
"In physics," I said.
"Oh. Well, nobody knows anything about that, so I guess we can't talk about it."
"On the contrary," I answered. "It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance--gold transfers we can't talk about, because those are understood--so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!"
I don't know how they do it. There's a way of forming ice on the surface of the face, and she did it!”
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
She turned to me and said, "Oh! You're one of the Nobel-Prize-winners. In what field did you do your work?"
"In physics," I said.
"Oh. Well, nobody knows anything about that, so I guess we can't talk about it."
"On the contrary," I answered. "It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance--gold transfers we can't talk about, because those are understood--so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!"
I don't know how they do it. There's a way of forming ice on the surface of the face, and she did it!”
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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