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CANCION DE BEN BERNANKE Y LA RESERVA FEDERAL: Every Breath You Take Dean Glenn Hubbard |
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Con una preciosa cita del matemático francés Henri Poincaré
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.- Henri Poincaré.
El científico no estudia naturaleza porque es útil; él estudia lo porque él entusiasma en lo, y él entusiasma en lo porque es hermoso. Si la naturaleza no eran hermosas, no valdría sabiendo, y si la naturaleza no eran el mérito sabiendo, la vida no valdría viviendo.-
Con otra del novelista Henry Miller
Chaos is the score on which reality is written - Henry Miller.
El caos es la partitura sobre que realidad se escribe - Henry de Molinero.
UNA CITA PARA ECONOMISTAS Y HOMBRES DE CIENCIA
as mephisto says
to the eager student in Goethe's Faust:
Gray, my dear friend, is every theory,
And green alone life's golden tree.
ALGUNAS RESPUESTAS DE ALUMNOS TOMADAS DE LOS FOROS DE INTERNET
Sobre una famosa cita de Keynes:
How about this one from a first year student:
In the long run unemployment is not a problem because we will all be dead.
However, in the short run unemployment is a big problem and can last
forever.
Sobre el siempre difícil concepto de incertidumbre:
Your heart sinks when you see kids say things like this, but the reality
is that uncertainty is a difficult concept to grasp, especially when you're
too young to have experience on your side. But one of my students came up
with a brilliant example of uncertainty which communicated in an instant
what the distinction is all about.
"When you roll a dice, you have a one in six chance of rolling a six;
that's risk.
But let's say you are really attracted to someone, and she has accepted
one in six of the invitations she's received in the past.
Does that mean you have a one in six chance of being successful if you
'pop the question'? I don't think so! That's uncertainty."
If you get slapped the seventh time...that's certainty.
"Keynes made the distinction between risk and uncertainty. When you use risk you know your odds, but when there is uncertainty the chance is 50-50."
A mathematician, an accountant
and an economist apply for the same job.
The interviewer calls in the mathematician and asks "What do two plus
two equal?" The mathematician replies "Four." The interviewer
asks
"Four, exactly?" The mathematician looks at the interviewer
incredulously and says "Yes, four, exactly."
Then the interviewer calls in the accountant and asks
the same question
"What do two plus two equal?" The accountant says "On average,
four -
give or take ten percent, but on average, four."
Then the interviewer calls in the economist and poses
the same question
"What do two plus two equal?" The economist gets up, locks the door,
closes the shade, sits down next
to the interviewer and says "What do
you want it to equal?"
Einstein is discussing accommodation at the reception
desk in Heaven.
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> Receptionist. 'You will have to share a room.'
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> E. 'That is OK. I like someone to talk to.'
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> 'It might be someone with an IQ of 180.'
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> E. 'That is OK. We will discuss philosophy and Plato.'
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> 'But it might be someone with an IQ of 160'
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> E. 'That is OK. We will discuss relativity.'
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> 'Of course it could be someone with an IQ of 130.'
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> E. 'Well we can talk about history.'
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> 'What if it is someone with an IQ of 100?'
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> E. 'We can talk about gardening and homely things. Very nice.'
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> 'But what if it is someone with an IQ of only 70.'
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> E. 'Then we shall have to discuss economics.'