Is there a good person?

How to decide if a person is good or bad? What make people think of an action as bad or good? Can one person be good, if he or she has bad elements inside them? Is there any one on earth without bad element inside? Is there a person perfect? Well, enjoy this video!!...

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The Lucifer Effect: Review

Brain is the master of all evils and devils. Yet, we have understood it so little. How are human behaviors shaped, were human born good, can good people turn evil etc. remain unending questions. Among subjects in undergraduate level, psychology deals with this kind of issues and brain the most (unless your major is neuroscience). My encounter with two psychology classes in my under shaped my ways of thinking in a positive...

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Theoretical Research vs. Empirical Research in Economics

Back in Waseda University, I was wondering what a theoretical research in economics is and how different it is from an empirical one. Most students from Cambodia, at least, choose empirical research for both undergraduate and graduate studies. I do not like empirical research because  I would have to look at computer screen with millions of data there. It took me quite a long time to see the difference and finally I chose...

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An Example of Theoretical Research in Economics, Master's Thesis

My Master's paper is not the best paper, nor is it rigorous. It is not published any where else. I publish it here with the sole purpose: to allow you to take it as an example for your research and write a better one. ...

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Rich Dad, Poor Dad

I was curious about finance and surfed the web for the best book for laymen like me. The title came up but I did not dig into it. However, when I walked in different libraries in my graduate school of Waseda University, I frequently saw it in both Japanese and English versions, which means it is seemingly popular. So I decided to read it. I put it in my iPhone, printed out some pages and also borrow the English version from my...

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Free to Choose

Prof. Mankiw of Harvard has written two worldly popular textbooks in economics: Principles of Economics and Macroeconomics. There are many universities and professors who use his textbooks in classrooms. In my university, Kobe University, his textbooks are popular for undergraduate and graduate levels. I enormously like his books, and that is where I got to know the book Free to Choose.    In his note on his further...

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Essays on Liberty

Summary  The birth of modern government system began with two simple principles: one is government is to protect one citizen from being abused by another citizen. Two is government is to protect itself from abusing citizens. The first principle requires that government sets up laws to protect property rights of all citizens. The second principle requires that government assigns limited roles to itself...

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

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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Cambodia promotes motorcycle helmets to halt rise of traffic deaths

In the end of 1990s to 2000s, the largest social ill in Cambodia was the spread of HIV/AID. Recently this is no longer the issue. Most people now understand about the disease and how to prevent it. However, currently the largest social ill is death toll from traffic accidents. Statistics aside, I can see traffic accident one every day in average on my way of commutation from and to workplace. The article is right in that people...

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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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