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Even leaving aside the cultural problems which TSMC's management should have been better prepared for--anyone who's been through an MBA program recently probably has had instruction in the importance of corporate culture--the inadequate preparation for the language barrier seems remarkably inept.    But these problems might be understood as consequences...

Yes. The model of perfect competition poses a problem for economics instructors. On the one hand you want to tell students to pay very little attention to it. But on the other hand students understandably hate when you teach against what the textbook says. And there's also the old advice to writers that you should learn grammatical rules before you...

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Interesting: "Endogenous technological change" is only 5th highest and "A contribution to the theory of economic growth" is only sixth. Academics can check their citations in "policy documents" here. You need to give them an email and you should be careful to state your name including a middle initial if you use it (and edit out other variants of...