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Guess which macroeconomic concept this illustration is about. (Hint: the concept is named after a Nobel laureate.)
#CUHKecon #ProjectExhibition
好墟冚呀！Crowded!
聽日就係經濟專題展覽啦！
9am有Travis主講開幕講座，9:30-11:30am由近百位二年級同學講解多項研究，不容錯過！
Poster exhibition starts tomorrow morning!
Price Elasticity of Demand of Diners
Basic Micro題：葵芳Euro GoGo價錢係隔籬A-1 Restaurant嘅一半，顧客估計係十倍。問葵芳食客對西餐的需求彈性為？
Basic Microeconomics question: restaurant E’s price is half of restaurant A’s and it had ten times the customers. Calculate the price elasticity of demand of diners in this region.
邊個咁大膽？！未來凸首都咁搞？
美孚睇《十年》，人數比上次《分獎禮》更多！
“Ten Years”, another local-themed movie, played in public. This movie was ran on big screens for only a short duration, perhaps due to the sensitivity of its topic.
係傳統銀行不斷裁員之際，計量金融是少數有增長的領域。所以我成日同同學講：一定要識程式編寫，一定要識程式編寫，一定要識程式編寫。（重要嘅嘢要講三次，好似係。）
For students interested in working in the finance field, learning how to write code is more important than ever before.
“[A]s these firms have grown, so has the demand for a new breed of Wall
Street trader — one who can build financial models and write computer code
but who also has the guts to spot a market anomaly and bet big with the firm’s capital.”
New York Times: A New Breed of Trader on Wall Street: Coders With a Ph.D.
Excellent read on how macro-economists have become more reductionist than physicists in insisting on microfoundations.
我深信民主的珍貴從來不是給你選中一個好的，
而是給你下次機會換走一些做得未夠好的。
這是林日曦就新東補選說的。這話沒錯—只要大家記住，換來換去也不一定換得一個好的。希臘就是個好例子：金融海嘯後國家經濟崩潰，為求得援助，該國兩大傳統政黨接受了城下之盟，大舉緊縮導致民心盡失。一眾極左翼政團在當其時組成Syriza，以反緊縮作口號，以雷霆萬鈞之勢取得執政權。不幸的是，不管Syriza如何努力，甚至舉行過多輪國內公投以取得國民授權，礙於國際形勢還是爭取不到多少喘息空間。經此折騰，不少希臘民眾對政制完全絕望，犬儒主義油然而生。
以香港當下的政制，老實說，我不認為選入一個新議員可以帶來有意義的改變。即使保住直選組別的否決權，在剪布的陰翳下，再多一個「理性」的議員又能有何作為？倒是一些網民實際：「選個激進的去立法會，由政府資助街頭抗爭！」從抗衡政府的角度出發，這樣想法又的確有其道理。
所以投票給誰主要還是個表態。支持進一步抗爭的，心目中早已作出抉擇，不用多說。但不支持暴力的，我認為應投傳統泛民，為的是保全協商的可能。在立法會中建制已是大多數，多一個建制議員非但不會使議會變得理性，反而會給與激進抗爭者一個理由去把抗爭升級。至於黃成智這樣的「第三條路線」，充當笑料也嫌級數低，不提也罷！