Great Man theory Concepts

Think Complexity

by Allen B. Downey · 23 Feb 2012 · 247pp · 43,430 words

systems are critical, that suggests that major historical events may be fundamentally unpredictable and unexplainable. Example 9-9. Read about the Great Man theory of history at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory. What implication does self-organized criticality have for this theory? Chapter 10. Agent-Based Models Thomas Schelling In 1971, Thomas Schelling

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10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less

by Garett Jones · 4 Feb 2020 · 303pp · 75,192 words

same rate as democracies on average. But they use that fact as a starting point, not an ending point. They wanted to test the traditional “great man” theory of history—that things really change (on average) when a nation’s leader changes. To look for an answer, they investigate times when a political

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–91; independence of regulators, 88–91; judiciary vs. government regulators, 82–83, 88, 90–91; of telecommunications, 65, 80–82, 85–88, 89 grandfathering, 114 “great man” theory of history, 25–26 Greek sovereign debt, 133, 165 Grilli, Vittorio: on independent central banks, 49 gun owners’ rights, 64–65 Gurri, Martin: on Arab

Chaos: Making a New Science

by James Gleick · 18 Oct 2011 · 396pp · 112,748 words

did sometimes think he was a little crazy—a Jewish mystic amid the rationalists, a Gaullist where most scientists were Communists. They joked about his Great Man theory of history, his fixation on Goethe, his obsession with old books. He had hundreds of original editions of works by scientists, some dating back to

Emergence

by Steven Johnson · 329pp · 88,954 words

leaving behind their pheromone footprints. Histories of intellectual development—the origin and spread of new ideas—usually come in two types of packages: either the “great man” theory, where a single genius has a eureka moment in the lab or the library and the world is immediately transformed; or the “paradigm shift” theory

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On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

by Nate Silver · 12 Aug 2024 · 848pp · 227,015 words

the motivation of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, with their interest in technologies like space exploration. Some of them subscribe to a version of the Great Man Theory—that because of the shortcomings of the Village, they must take the future into their own hands. Whether or not this can be described as

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?,” Devex, November 27, 2018, devex.com/news/sponsored/can-this-movement-get-more-donors-to-maximize-their-impact-90903. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Great Man Theory: Will Oremus, “Analysis: Elon Musk and Tech’s ‘Great Man’ Fallacy,” The Washington Post, April 27, 2022, washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/27/jack-dorsey

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Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street

by Peter L. Bernstein · 19 Jun 2005 · 425pp · 122,223 words

. He explained to Cook the vacuousness of the traditional methods of portfolio management, which, he pointed out, were little more than “. . . a variation of the Great Man theory. A Great Man picks stocks that go up. You keep him until his picks don’t work any more and you search for another Great

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jacket in a banking environment that was far more conservative than Wells Fargo’s. Like McQuown, Vertin was totally opposed to the dominance of the Great Man theory in the world of professional investing. His own metaphor is perhaps more colorful than McQuown’s. He conjures up a medicine man who tries to

One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility

by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness · 28 Mar 2010 · 532pp · 155,470 words

in, 135; drivers in, 130–131; pedestrian and cyclist fatalities in, 268n117. See also England Greater new york automobile Show and “bike-by” protest, 62 Great Man theory, 199 Green, Harriet, 245n74 Green Hummer project, 94–96 Gridlock, 208–209 Groom, Tom, 34 Grootveld, robert Jasper, 55, 242n50 Grossberg, lawrence, 168 Guerilla Girls

The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio

by William J. Bernstein · 26 Apr 2002 · 407pp · 114,478 words

no longer ignore the avalanche of data documenting the failure of supposed expert money managers. Up until that point, money management was based on the Great Man theory: find the Great Man who could pick stocks and hire him. When he loses his touch, go out looking for the next Great Man. But

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Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever

by Robin Wigglesworth · 11 Oct 2021 · 432pp · 106,612 words

IBM conference. McQuown argued that a more scientific approach to investing was the future. In his telling, the traditional approach followed a version of the “Great Man” theory first espoused by the nineteenth-century philosopher Thomas Carlyle. Some preternaturally gifted hero would pick stocks that he thought would rise. When his touch inevitably

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–93, 194 departure, 192–93 Great Crash of 1929, 27, 88, 89, 92, 225–26 Great Depression, 26, 30, 39, 40, 88, 122, 169, 214 “Great Man” theory, 57–58 Greece, 258 Green, Michael, 266–71, 281 “greenwashing,” 290 Greenwich Associates, 35, 109 Griffin, Ken, 2 Gross, Bill, 124, 261 Grossman, Blake, 185

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Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

by Michael Bhaskar · 2 Nov 2021

time really is different. Such cascading impact is also found in the social sciences. It's a curious irony that while Karl Marx dismissed the ‘Great Man’ theory of history, he personally altered the trajectories of entire nation states. The mind boggles to think how, in a little under a century, the mind