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White on Pareto & Kant
Mark D. White (College of Staten Island) has posted Pareto, Consent, and Respect for Dignity: A Kantian Perspective (Review of Social Economy, Vol. 67, No. 1, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:This paper argues that the Pareto standard, by...

Farewell to a Management Guru
Joe Juran died this week, at the ripe age of 103. You may or may not know him by name, but his remarkable contributions to management are visible in worksites around the globe. In 1937, he coined the Pareto Principle, also known as the 80-20 rule, which states that 80% of effects come from 20% of causes...

A small portion of anything accounts for a large portion of importance
It is entirely probably that 80 percent of the value in this blog ? perhaps wildly optimistic ? exists in 20 percent of the posts. Why not, since Pareto?s Rule crops up everywhere (See my post of June 27, 2007...

SSRN Top-10 List of Recent Employment & Labor Downloads
Richard L. Kaplan, A Guide to Starting Social Security Benefits (975). Marcos Pompeu Pareto, The Health Care Crisis in the United States: The Issues and Proposed Solutions by the 2008 Presidential Candidates (111)...

Meet the Class of 2007: TechnoLawyer Preferred Vendors (The TechnoList)
The importance of clients needs no explanation. Your law firm would not exist without your clients. And TechnoLawyer would not exist without our clients. Although we're grateful for all our clients, the so-called Pareto Principal applies to us just as...

Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Thinking is a skill. But how often do we train our thinking? Does reading the newspaper or even general-interest non-fiction improve our thinking? Is sitting around just thinking sufficient? Perhaps not, if you believe that your mind can play tricks on you...