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Niall Ferguson: The six "killer apps" of western civilization
An oldie but a real goodie, in the regular rotation for my management classes, highlighting the importance of innovation in prosperity as...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20234 min read
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Wealth and poverty: Acts 4:32-35
The whole group of believers was united, heart and soul; no one claimed for his own use anything that he had, as everything they owned...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20232 min read
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Myths of rich and poor: The American dream... and less[1]
June 19, 2015. The “American dream” means building a better life for your children. Is the dream realistic in the twenty-first century? A...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20233 min read
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Steve Jobs' advice for a better life
Jobs, the CEO founder of Apple, died a billionaire. Here are some of his last thoughts about life. "I reached the pinnacle of success in...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20232 min read
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Fauci v Fauci
Covid v AIDS. What follows are some random thoughts on the differences and the devil in the details of these two pandemics united by...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20233 min read
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Eulogy for Bobby Friedmann, October 2011
The toughest and best fifteen minutes I ever delivered, honoring Dr. Roberto "Bobby" Friedmann, an untimely victim of pancreatic cancer...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20231 min read
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Biography 2019
Peter Lorenzi Sellinger School of Business and Management Loyola University Maryland Peter Lorenzi is professor of management at Loyola...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20233 min read
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Covid: NYT cherry-picking apples and oranges
Febraury 22, 2023. The New York time cherry picks data to confirm a false, preconceived narrative about the pandemic. The death rate in...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20231 min read
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What IPCC and friends got terribly wrong
The forecasts of global warming have been remarkably incorrect.

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20231 min read
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Strategies for business deans, 2005
I served two tenures as a business dean, first at the University of Central Arkansas from July 1992 to June 1995, then at Loyola...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20231 min read
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The minimum wage and the value of a college education
If the minimum wage rises to $15 and hour and humanities and social science graduates of expensive private colleges spend $300,000 to...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20233 min read
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Characteristics of wealth-creating countries
More from the management notes archives. David Landes (upper left); Niall Ferguson (lower right) Landes and Ferguson provided excellent,...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20237 min read
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What colleges won't tell you
February 22, 2023. In 1980, I was the youngest professor ever to be named a finalist for the university-wide teaching award at the...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20235 min read
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3158 East Church Street winter memories
The place I think of as home, East Church Street in Eden, New York, includes plenty of memories covered in snow, and winters that seemed...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20231 min read
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Two fracking faces of Green Joe
We can't make this stuff up. And even the media conspirators can't hide it. Where does the Biden administration stand on fracking and...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20231 min read
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Joy, hope and opportunity
Joy, hope and opportunity. This may just be my new and last mantra, my simple way of both reminding myself as to what is most important...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20233 min read
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Eighth grade report card, 1965
Looks pretty good. I never had any talent in music. Did not like the teacher. And who takes 'reading' these days? in eighth grade?

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20231 min read
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Teachers: The real meaning of sharing, giving and giving back
Thoughts on the false idea that the sharing economy is anything new. We have long had an economy where people leverage their idle...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20235 min read
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Covid reality sets in
February 22, 2023. The material below I collected and posted a year ago. It provides good context for today's Wall Street Journal...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20239 min read
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College hacks
When I reflect on my college days, I sometimes have to marvel at all the many little entrepreneurial acts and hacks that helped me to...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20231 min read
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