West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)

Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology. Joseph is an associate professor. Mark is a professional statistician and former math teacher.

Showing posts with label growth fetish. Show all posts

Showing posts with label growth fetish. Show all posts

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Loan Sharks, Facebook and the Growth Fetish

Think about the following game. I'm going to let you pick seven or twelve then I'm going to role a pair of dice. If you pick seven y...

Saturday, May 5, 2012

More on mergers and the growth fetish

As a follow-up to this post (which was part of a larger thread ), this NBER paper (courtesy, I believe, of Felix Salmon or Brad DeLong) su...

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

More thoughts on the growth fetish

I recall a quote from investor Peter Lynch saying (if memory serves) that he didn't like it when companies invested his money, meaning ...

Thursday, March 22, 2012

More on the growth fetish -- Facebook vs. Groupon

There is a worthwhile exchange going on between Felix Salmon and Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry . I've already quoted Salmon , but Gobry makes ...

Venture capital and the growth fetish

Felix Salmon has another smart post on venture capital and the way he feels it distorts American business: Another way to look at this ques...

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