Creative Destruction: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty

Creative Destruction: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty: "Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950) coined the seemingly paradoxical term “creative destruction,” and generations of economists have adopted it as a shorthand description of the free market’s messy way of delivering progress. In Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942), the Austrian economist wrote:
The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop to such concerns as U.S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation—if I may use that biological term—that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one. This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. (p. 83)"

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Patent Pending

Patent Pending: " baby alligators came out. And they all look just like me!”
“And you don’t know how it happened?”
“No. So I’d like to patent it.”
“Well, it’s certainly bigger than a chicken egg and the shell is much thicker. But I’m afraid an egg is an egg and, buddy, you’re too late. Charlie the Chicken over there already applied.”
“Darn it. Just my luck.”
“Next!”
“Good morning. Ossie the Ostrich here.”
“Morning. Whaddya got?”"

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looking for the aliens among us » weird things

looking for the aliens among us » weird things: "900 year old skull of a young boy he calls the Starchild. Found in Mexico during the 1930s, it’s an odd artifact with an abnormally large space for a brain, shallow eye sockets with oval orbits, and canals for the optic nerves situated in the wrong place. According to Pye, it looks like the result of a Gray alien and a human creating a hybrid and he’s submitted the skull for DNA testing several times to prove that there may be some traces of an extraterrestrial lineage somewhere in its genome."

Insulting A "Religion"?- Is It Okay?

Sandwalk

Sandwalk: "Horace Freeland Judson died on May 6, 2011. He is best known as the author of The Eighth Day of Creation first published in 1979 and later re-published in an expanded edition in 1996. This is a 'must-read' book for all students of biochemistry and molecular biology.

Mark Ptashne has published an obituary in PLoS Biology [Horace Judson (1931 - 2011)]. Ptashne raises an issue that should be of concern to all biological scientists; namely, the fact that modern molecular biologists seem to be completely unaware of the history of their field and of all the fundamental work done with bacteria and bacteriophage."

Why Evolution is True: About the Author

Why Evolution is True: About the Author: "About the Author


Jerry A. Coyne, Ph.D is a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago and a member of both the Committee on Genetics and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology. Coyne received a B.S. in Biology from the College of William and Mary. He then earned a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology at Harvard University in 1978,"

Why Evolution is True: About the Author

Why Evolution is True: About the Author: "About the Author


Jerry A. Coyne, Ph.D is a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago and a member of both the Committee on Genetics and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology. Coyne received a B.S. in Biology from the College of William and Mary. He then earned a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology at Harvard University in 1978,"