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Monthly Archives: October 2015

Individual vs. social rationality in the matter of self-driving cars

27 Tuesday Oct 2015

Posted by tjungbau in Social Dilemma

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Google Cars, Self-Driving Cars, Social Dilemma

A interesting instance of social and individual rationality contradicting each other is the question of how to program self-driving cars to react in the case of a looming accident. Ignoring the lurid headline the article on this social dilemma is quite interesting. Apparently, early research by Toulouse psychologist Jean-Francois Bonnefon indicates the majority of people agreeing that cars should be programmed to choose the alternative which kills the least amount of people in expectation. Unsurprisingly, this ceases to hold true if this increases the probability of the interviewee being killed in the accident.

International expansion and headquarters location

12 Monday Oct 2015

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Headquarters, International Expansion

My former executive student at Kellogg Jaime Valles wrote this interesting comment on international expansion and headquarters location from a Latin America perspective.

Scottish economist Angus Deaton wins Nobel prize 2015

12 Monday Oct 2015

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Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize, Welfare

Angus Deaton, the Princeton economist best-known for his efforts to measure welfare changes of the world’s poor, has been awarded the Nobel prize in Economics 2015. As I am not as familiar with his work, please find a great comment by my former colleague Kevin Bryan here and a brief account by The Guardian (source of the picture) here.

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