Apologia Pro Vita Sua: The Vanishing of the White Whale in the Mists
There are many analogies among fortune hunting in business, politics, and science. The prime task of the gold digger was to go to the Klondikes, find the right mine and mine the richest veins. This task requires motivation, sense of purpose and ability. Techniques and equipment must be developed. Fo...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.hbun9e 2023-05-15T18:44:03+02:00 Apologia Pro Vita Sua: The Vanishing of the White Whale in the Mists Shubik, Martin 2018-07-25 http://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09577 en eng 10670/1.hbun9e http://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09577 undefined arXiv socio phil Text https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_18cf/ 2018 fttriple 2023-01-22T18:27:33Z There are many analogies among fortune hunting in business, politics, and science. The prime task of the gold digger was to go to the Klondikes, find the right mine and mine the richest veins. This task requires motivation, sense of purpose and ability. Techniques and equipment must be developed. Fortune hunting in New England was provided at one time by hunting for whales. One went to a great whalers' station such as New Bedford and joined the whale hunters. The hunt in academic research is similar. A single-minded passion is called for. These notes here are the wrap-up comments containing some terminal observations of mine on a hunt for a theory money and financial institutions. Comment: 7 pages Text White whale Unknown Bedford ENVELOPE(-67.150,-67.150,-66.467,-66.467) New Bedford ENVELOPE(-61.250,-61.250,-73.367,-73.367) |
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There are many analogies among fortune hunting in business, politics, and science. The prime task of the gold digger was to go to the Klondikes, find the right mine and mine the richest veins. This task requires motivation, sense of purpose and ability. Techniques and equipment must be developed. Fortune hunting in New England was provided at one time by hunting for whales. One went to a great whalers' station such as New Bedford and joined the whale hunters. The hunt in academic research is similar. A single-minded passion is called for. These notes here are the wrap-up comments containing some terminal observations of mine on a hunt for a theory money and financial institutions. Comment: 7 pages |
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