Tag Archives: principles

Pricing principles

Posted on June 4, 2021 by koenfucius

(featured image: David Trawin/Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0) Are our principles absolute and unassailable, or are they for sale? In Florida, the COVID-19 vaccination rate among the staff of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities is, by any standard, worryingly … Continue reading →

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Technicalities and voluntary morals

Posted on October 5, 2018 by koenfucius

(credit: Elliot Brown CC BY) Is what is technically right also morally right? Maybe I should have studied law instead of engineering. One day when I was eight, my best friend and I were chatting in class when we shouldn’t, … Continue reading →

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Surreal choices

Posted on July 20, 2018 by koenfucius

When decisions look bizarre, it may be because they involve unfeasible trade-offs Belgium is often associated with surrealism, not just thanks to renowned surrealist painter René Magritte was Belgian, but also because of its somewhat idiosyncratic politics. With six governments, … Continue reading →

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Is it our business?

Posted on November 3, 2017 by koenfucius

(Image credit: stevepb) Sometimes characteristics of products or services, or of those who sell them, immaterial as they are, can greatly influence our willingness to pay. Should they be any of our business? 500 years ago, on 31 October 1517, Martin … Continue reading →

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Selling your soul

Posted on October 13, 2017 by koenfucius

(featured image: wikimedia) The trade-offs we don’t want to make (but believe others should) Not much is known with any certainty about Johann Georg Faust. Wikipedia describes him as an alchemist, astrologer and magician, who was born in either 1466 … Continue reading →

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The problem with principles

Posted on July 8, 2016 by koenfucius

Making decisions can be tough – and if principles are involved, prepare for the impossible. For anyone with an interest in behaviour and decision making, Brexit is the gift that keeps on giving study material. After a wild couple of weeks since … Continue reading →

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