" Is it just another way of referring to enlightened common sense? How many sheep does it take. In each chapter we develop the basic ideas and then provide a brief account of the theoretical and empirical literature on the topic. "Unless you drop your stuff in a shop, people don't believe you are a real company," he said. Popular culture rose to the occasion, with new music, new entertainments, new fashions and new distractions. The Age of Abundance is an artifact of our era, a theory of modern American culture that is also a piece of that culture. Economics is not just about business or the stock market or the Federal Reserve; it's also practical. And you can enjoy it all without moving an inch from your office desk or your easy chair. These businesses range from food giants to the inventors of a popular virtual world that has confounded skeptics who believed only nerds would sign on. A new Governor of the Bank of Japan, less concerned with supporting the U. New product development is among the most important activities any enterprise undertakes. It won't make students that happy, usually. You have to make it fun for yourself; you have to create your own incentives. The open-source product refinements and extensions take place in what the company calls the SugarForge. A lot of science works on the same basis. I'm trying to bring a love of economics to a much broader audience, to make economics more human. A common problem with bonuses, however, is people often feel, rightly or wrongly, that they are used to reward favorites. This suggests that emerging countries are more prone to crises and particularly to currency crises. Framing it the wrong way, for example, would be penalizing somebody without saying what they are doing right. Not content with having established a virtual world built by the crowd, Linden has taken its crowdsourcing a step further. " In other words, it lives or dies by software developers. They were actually more prone to currency and twin crises than the emerging countries.