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Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> writes:
> My news feed comes from Eternal-September.  Lately there are few posts
> on <a.f.c>...  so where did everyone disappear to???  :-)

google groups afc gets feed directly from usenet distribution and
there are few there also
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.folklore.computers

past couple days I've been having fun in IBM Retirees social
media groups. One of the topics
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6376872436641656832/

IBM is 21st Century proof that Milton Friedman was wrong. See what some
great industrialists believed. University of California, Berkeley, Haas
School of Business The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Chicago Booth Executive Education

... snip ...

it wasn't my original statement ... by author of (also recommending book
before upcoming IBM stockholders meeting).
https://www.amazon.com/THINK-Again-Maximize-Shareholder-Value-ebook/dp/B074XKQ3B9/

However, some number of IBM retirees objected to besmirching Friedman's
good name.

I was glad to bring up Kahneman (psychologist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman

getting 2002 Economics Nobel prize, in part for debunking Friedman's
assumption about rational people/decision making that are at the basis
of his Free/Efficient Market.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_theory
Old item mentioning "Prospect Theory"
http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2007/01/29/milton-friedman-and-the-ration/

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