The News: A User's Manual by Alain De Botton

Author:Alain De Botton [Botton, Alain De]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307911728
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2014-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

and where:

pi and qi are the respective price and quantity

of the i-th transaction

pT is a row vector of the pi

q is a column vector of the qi

– by which point most of us will be itching to run away, perhaps back to the tragic news story of the couple who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge.

In certain moods, we may feel almost agreeably small before the majesty and intricacy of economics. In their field, theologians sometimes describe a feeling of awe that can result when the tiny human ego is confronted by the divine presence and experiences what is termed in Latin the mysterium tremendum, the mystery of the divine. There may be comparable moments of mysterium tremendum when the mind comes up against a dispersion output graph:

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