{"id":123,"date":"2013-08-31T17:44:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T07:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/?p=123"},"modified":"2013-08-31T17:44:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T07:44:19","slug":"this-week-i-learned-12-31-august-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/2013\/08\/this-week-i-learned-12-31-august-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week I Learned #12 &#8211; 31 August 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/freeexchange\/2013\/08\/labour-markets-0?spc=scode&amp;spv=xm&amp;ah=9d7f7ab945510a56fa6d37c30b6f1709\">An interesting and thought-provoking piece on the automation of work<\/a>, then and now. Well worth the free registration.<\/li>\n<li>David Landes, economic historian, has died. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/2012\/01\/why-the-west-industrialised-before-the-rest-david-landes-the-wealth-and-poverty-of-nations-kenneth-pomeranzs-the-great-divergence\/\">I wrote about one of his (excellent) books here<\/a>; and <a href=\"delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2013\/08\/we-economic-historians-all-mourn-that-david-landes-has-died.html\">here is a great excerpt from another of his works<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com.au\/technology\/watch-a-professor-control-another-professor-s-mind-from-across-campus\">Remote controlling the actions of another human being<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/finance-and-economics\/21583649-trading-equities-old-fashioned-way-day-after-fall\">Doing business the old-fashioned way on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Poetic justice? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-23869462\">A British man is making money from cold callers by redirecting them to his own premium line<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting and thought-provoking piece on the automation of work, then and now. Well worth the free registration. David Landes, economic historian, has died. I wrote about one of his (excellent) books here; and here is a great excerpt from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/2013\/08\/this-week-i-learned-12-31-august-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-week-i-learned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}