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...that mean for regulation? You can set up certain decision rules that try to keep people on the straight and narrow, but too much regulation about the details is going to get you in trouble. The big banks should probably be fairly boring and reasonably well regulated. And their core businesses are - but they were able to get away from their core activities and move further out on the risk spectrum and jeopardize the whole operation. So much more stringent capital requirements for banks as they get larger, to make sure that as they get larger they get more boring...
...comes to the phenomenon known as crowdsourcing. Wikipedians - the volunteers who run the site, especially the approximately 1,000 editors who wield the most power over what you see - have been in a self-reflective mood. Not only is Wikipedia slowing, but also new stats suggest that hard-core participants are a pretty homogeneous set - the opposite of the ecumenical wiki ideal. Women, for instance, make up only 13% of contributors. The project's annual conference in Buenos Aires this summer bustled with discussions about the numbers and how the movement can attract a wider class of participants...
...cities in the 1950s and '60s, when abandoned homes helped set off blight. What we really need to do, Leinberger says, is reinvent entire communities as the sorts of places where people want to live. That means building mass transit and urban-style city centers away from the metropolitan core. Finding new, creative uses for McMansions is a start, but the ultimate goal may be to design neighborhoods in which such large houses wouldn't make sense in the first place...
...Idea Bank is one more way we are trying to engage the entire FAS and Harvard College community as we all consider how to best advance our core mission of teaching and research in a more efficient and cost-effective manner,” the Web site reads...
...Economic cycles are an inevitable part of the job, and I would say that it requires discipline,” Kirwan said. “It’s important in all times to emphasize the sustainability of the core mission...