No doubt, this book is a worldly famous self-help book. The author, Sean Covey , was influenced by his father Stephen Covey, the author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and made it simpler especially for teens. Personally I am highly positively influenced by it. If I hold it to read again, I am not sure if I can stop. Just a little exaggeration, though! And this is why you see this review.
Knowing what is right...
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Thursday, April 9, 2015
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
New Ideas from Dead Economists
I fully concur with Einstein that smart people can make difficult topic easy to understand for laymen. In this sense, Todd Buchholz is a smart economist. His being a smart and insightful economist is clearly manifested in this book.
Who can and should read this book.
This is book is for those who have finished Introduction to Economics or just know or heard about the demand and supply theory. Laymen...
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Book Review,
Economics
Monday, April 6, 2015
Cha Ret Khmer (Khmer Characteristics)
Summary
It is a rather well-known book by a nationalistic politician name Bun Chan Mol (ប៊ុណ្ណ ចន្ទម៉ុល) who spent his life serving Cambodia under many regimes and at the same time observed the atrocity of committed by Cambodians,...
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Analysis,
Book Review,
Bun Chan Mol,
Cambodia,
Politics,
Social Science,
Society
Sunday, April 5, 2015
Why Nations Fail
You may wonder why Cambodia, among other poor countries, fail to develop. Why we are poor and other are rich? You have answers, of course. You may point to the fact that we had wars, thus no human capital i.e. no knowledgeable persons who know how to develop the country. Some would point to the fact that we are born lazy, i.e. our culture does not induce hard working like Vietnamese culture or Japanese culture. Of course, very...
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Analysis,
Book Review,
Cambodia,
Economics,
Education,
Japan,
Politics,
Society,
Why Nations Fail
Monday, March 30, 2015
That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen
When you study a subject for so long, whether it is mathematics, physics, economics, psychology, you tend to lose tract with the reality you see every day. Among many pieces of works of Frederic Bastiat, this piece of work is so brilliant that I can say it allows people who are new to economics to understand the principle of economics firmly.
Economists today use the expression Opportunity Cost to express...
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Book Review,
Economics,
Frederic Bastiat
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