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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The Constitution of Liberty

The book as well as the author are well-known but not as one would expect, although the ideas have changed the world in a great extent. Most students of economics do not even know his name. Some professors do hear his name but never actually read his books. That is my experience while I studied in Japan as well as of today when I asked people around me about that... Of course, if you read only textbooks, you would probably never...

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