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Professor, Mailman School, Columbia University

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InnovationRuminations

Will frivolity sustain the development of the new AI?

March 26, 2023 Amar Bhidé 1048 Views

Google’s Bard has been rather a disappointment for me so far.  Several days after promising to try to edit my

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UncertaintyBlog

Part One of forthcoming book Posted on SSRN

February 8, 2023 Amar Bhidé 1005 Views 0 Comments

Ive been hacking away — for way too long — on a new book, Uncertainty, Justification, and Enterprise: Renewing Knights

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Ruminations

Too good to be true? Adventures in ChatGPT-land

December 11, 2022 Amar Bhidé 925 Views chatGPT

For decades I have been unimpressed by AI hype. (I had a boss at McKinsey in the early 1980s who

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Ruminations

Reading/Listening Lists for millennials

December 7, 2022 Amar Bhidé 929 Views 0 Comments reading lists

A student in my entrepreneurship class — a millennial naturally –asked for general reading suggestions. I sent the following email

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UncertaintyBlog

The Birth of Behavioral Finance.

December 4, 2022 Amar Bhidé 880 Views 0 Comments

Jottings for my forthcoming book on Knightian uncertainty. Finance had not interested Herbert Simon and the other “old” behavioral economists.

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HealthCareBlogRuminations

My nutty nut-free diet

December 1, 2022 Amar Bhidé 986 Views medical innovation

And NOT by any means a recommendation In April 2015 I had dinner with an old friend in Paris, who

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Productive KnowledgeRuminations

The “fact” of rain

April 2, 2022 Amar Bhidé 1012 Views 0 Comments

Social Agreement v. objective facts/information Professor Reed writes on his blog. “Facts are independently testable and verifiable, with truth independent

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Public PolicyRuminations

The dangers of dismantling local zoning rules

March 8, 2022 Amar Bhidé 877 Views 0 Comments

Well said Joel Kotkin! Zoning rules have become a target in many libertarian circles. Joel Kotkin who I believe is

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Ruminations

My mother and her friends started the Association 50 years ago

January 11, 2022 Amar Bhidé 1015 Views 0 Comments

Being very proud son of extraordinary parents, I have endowed a scholarship in their name. Modest sums go a long

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Opeds and MediaPublic PolicyRuminations

The Selective Sovietization of American Capitalism

January 1, 2022 Amar Bhidé 1162 Views Credit markets,  monetary policy

Project Syndicate Op-ed This oped, just published in Project Syndicate memorializes Janos Kornai. I never met Janos but we published

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