I had heard about Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers long before I actually decided to read it. My reluctance was due to the emphasis of reviewers—who tended to focus solely on the so-called 10,000 hour rule. That is, one does not have to be a born genius to master a particular activity (the example in the book […]
Month: May 2018
Who Should Pay? Egalitarianism, Luck, and Redistributive Policies
Recent studies of egalitarian ethics have attempted to resolve the conflict between redistributive egalitarianism and personal responsibility. That is, how much of where one ends up in life depends on individual effort or merit as opposed to random luck should make a difference in how much of the surplus should be returned to help support […]
Is The Job Market Working For Us?
Many of us may remember something we learned in either introductory psychology or management classes called “the hierarchy of needs,” or Maslow’s Pyramid. Abraham Maslow (1908 – 1970) was an American psychologist who proposed that human motivation operated along a continuum of need fulfillment. Maslow’s model is frequently depicted as a pyramid, where the lower […]
