Chapter 169: Behavioral Economics
After feeding Xiao Sui's group of coaxing girlfriends and doing a little polite with the Xiao family, Gu Biao hurriedly took the car back to Qiantang, which was the last stop for him to say goodbye before going abroad.
The committee granted him a certain amount of leave, allowing him to stay in Qiantang for a few more days and return to Beijing after Christmas.
Coming down from the train station, it was my sister Gu Min who drove the Mercedes-Benz 770 classic car to pick up the station - Gu Min, who is already a senior intern, has also taken the driver's license test now, and it is no problem to drive.
Xiao Sui greeted her sister-in-law very politely, and brought two gadgets bought at the Hujiang Friendship Store.
"Thank you, it's still Xiaosui's aesthetics that are similar to me, and I like everything I pick. Gu Min said politely.
Of course, the Gu family is not short of money and materials, but they are just trying to provide a psychological comfort for family harmony. However, Xiao Sui and Gu Min are the same age, and they are indeed close in aesthetics, and there is no generation gap.
Gu Biao naturally had to say the arrangements, details, and significance of studying abroad again along the way, and it was inevitable that my sister would go home after her father. He's almost a repeater.
Surprise, nostalgia, pride, and many emotions have to be re-staged in front of everyone.
Gu Min is the most low-key, she just exclaimed to herself after listening to it, and she didn't plan to go to school to show off, but it saved a lot of trouble.
The main reason is that his younger brother Niu is used to it, and Gu Min is also a senior intern, and he is about to be assigned a unit, and he will graduate in one semester. When it comes to this kind of going their separate ways, the comparison between classmates is fading.
Unlike Xiao Sui, who is a sophomore, it is the most turbulent years when girls are busy comparing this and that.
Therefore, after Xiao Sui saw Gu Min's reaction, he also secretly reflected on himself:
I have followed Gu Biao out of the country a few times, I have seen so many big worlds, and I show off my husband's strength when I still have some things...... It's really undeserved, you can't show off everything to your girlfriends in the future, you have to be as mature as Sister Min.
Along the way, Gu Biao also chatted with Gu Min about seeing Shi Yuzhu released from prison in the Special Economic Zone.
Although Gu Min hated Shi Yuzhu's entanglement at the beginning, he still regretted that the other party only went in like this.
After all, hoarding and hyping these things, with the same social atmosphere every year, the acceptance in people's hearts is also very different. Looking back a year later, many of the things that were in prison at the beginning of the year are no longer considered nothing, and 10,000 households are doing it. (Of course, it's still not okay to go S, it's a crime no matter what era.) )
"You use him, aren't you afraid that he will hate you and stab Lou Zi for you?" Gu Min said with concern.
"Of course I can control it, and even if I can't control it, I am sure to destroy it. "Gu Biao is very confident.
Gu Min was slightly uncomfortable: "You always seem to think that Shi Yuzhu has some very bad character?"
Gu Biao can't say, "Because I know the black history of his later life", he can only be far-fetched and talk about some of the other party's performances in this year.
“…… In short, I have carefully observed, this person has the potential to make huge profits by practicing eyeballs, I don't like this kind of person, once such a bad precedent is opened, people can see that they can also be popular and make money, and there will be a big decline in national belief in national morality.
For example, if a judge adjudicates a traffic accident case today and says, 'Why did you help him if you didn't hit him?' then the people's righteousness and courage will definitely decline overall. ”
Regarding his younger brother's idealism, Gu Min persuaded without worry: "Human nature can't be stopped, MARX said that 300% of the profits can make capital trample on all human laws." In economics class, it is also said that where there is demand, there is a market, and there is arbitrage when there is a spread......"
She studied mathematics, and the mathematics department can be an elective economics, obviously Gu Min is using the classic theories learned in class, trying to make her younger brother restrain a little and not do meaningless things.
However, Gu Biao retorted to his face: "You are classical economics, but in fact, 'rational people' do not exist, so arbitrage opportunities will never be discovered by rational people as soon as they appear, and they will disappear as soon as they are exhausted." You should look at Richard Taylor's behavioral economics. ”
Xiao Sui on the side heard it in a fog: Why did my husband casually pull out a new term? behavioral economics? He didn't study mathematics or economics, so how could he know a little bit about everything?
"What do you mean that rational people don't exist? I don't agree with what you say!" Gu Min, who was driving, had a temper aroused, and couldn't help but pull over and talk to his younger brother.
Gu Biao was very calm and said in an orderly manner: "Let's give you an example-I've read all the "Book of Han", right? It doesn't matter if you haven't read it, just read the paragraph translated into the vernacular on "Five Thousand Years Up and Down".
In the biography of the flying general Li Guang, it is mentioned that once Li Guang led a small group of scouts to patrol the border, and was besieged by thousands of Hun cavalry, and Li Guang's soldiers were all killed in battle. After Li Guang himself was seriously injured and fell into a coma, because he was found to be a high-ranking general, the Huns chose to get a stretcher and transport him back alive.
Li Guang recuperated from his wounds for two days and regained some strength, but he still pretended to be unconscious, and finally waited for an opportunity for the Huns to relax, flew into the horse of a Hun cavalryman next to him, pushed the Hun man down, and then took the bow and arrow and fled.
Thousands of Hun cavalry rushed to encircle and chase and intercept, Li Guang shot more than ten people without false arrows, and the rest were easily separated by Li Guang - this example, if we use classical economic theory to calculate, I am afraid that the conclusion should be 'Li Guang will never escape'.
Because the Huns knew that he had a horse's quiver of up to 50 arrows, and at the beginning he had killed more than 10 people in a row, so the Huns should continue to chase, and then die more than 30 more, and exchange one life for one arrow for Li Guang, and when he finishes shooting, he will catch up again, and can he destroy a peerless general of the Han army? At this time, if he is scared away again, wouldn't the first dozen or so people die in vain, and it is not cost-effective!
However, how does the Society of Behavioral Economics interpret it: It is true that more than 30 more deaths can break through Li Guang's obscenity, and the question is, who do you want to be the first 30 or so to be sent to death? No one will want to, so Li Guang has maintained deterrence with half an arrow. Specifically, I have pressed history and breeding pigs in the palm of my hand today, and I will destroy him as soon as he is out of line, which really can't stop the profit-seeking heart of a billion people.
But my power in the business world, as long as I have the prestige of Li Guang's archery technique among the Huns, I can deter the people from doing that kind of shameless thing in the last few years. This is not a mantis arm as a car, I just need to prove that I have the ability to be a 'sharpshooter', 'the top 50 businessmen in the country who commit crimes to earn traffic have all been destroyed by me, and I can't do anything from the 51st onwards'. Let's see who dares to be in the top 50. ”
Gu Min chewed on his younger brother's golden words, and suddenly found that his level of opening his eyes to see the world was still too low.
"I thought that it was not easy for domestic universities to open economics courses, even if they were in line with international standards. I didn't expect that there would be a day outside the sky, is the one I learned outdated......" She felt very frustrated.
"It's okay, I'm just giving you a perspective and telling you that there is another opposing class, and you can learn it together. "Gu Biao was originally chatting with his sister, and he didn't plan to engage in economics academics.
"I won't ask you about your decisions in the future, you can make up your own minds. Gu Min sighed, knowing that her brother's IQ and insight were no longer on the same plane as hers.
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Mercedes-Benz classic car drove along Jiefang Road, from the city station all the way to the West Lake, turned through Qingbo Gate, and turned into the villa that the Gu family spent 30,000 yuan and bought before the summer vacation.
Daddy Gu Yong had already asked for leave to go home, ordered a large table of dishes, and waited to pick up the wind for his son - in fact, he couldn't talk about asking for leave, because he was the deputy factory director and second-in-command, and he was just leaving a message with the secretary, in case Lao Qin looked for him, he would say that he went home to see his son. If Director Qin didn't ask, no one would ask.
My sister can keep a low profile and not show off her brother, but Gu Biao can't stop my father from showing off his son.
After asking about the causes and consequences of Gu Biao's study abroad, my father couldn't help but open two bottles of Moutai at one time, drink one bottle by himself, and forced his children and prospective daughters-in-law to drink it.
"This is an unruly reception, and there will be a send-off wine in a few days. Go to Kissinger to study, such a long-faced thing, how can you not drink well!"
"Dad, beware of high blood pressure. Gu Biao couldn't help but persuade.
As a result, my father came back with a word: "What high blood pressure! That's what retired veteran cadres are worried about! We are only in the prime of life in our 50s, what are we afraid of!"
Let's forget it today and drink it ourselves. In a few days, I will go to the exhibition hotel to set up wine in the hall of the exhibition hotel! Colleagues at the leadership level of the factory are all shouting! The leaders in charge of the city's industrial bureau and the province must be invited!
Last year, the son of the director of the steam turbine factory, Wu, went to Lijiapo to study at Nanyang Polytechnic University, and he showed off his stinky beauty, and skillfully set up a name to put wine and give people souvenirs. The more solemn we are, the more we attach importance to Sino-US cooperation!"
Listening to his father's self-proclaimed "middle-aged man in his 50s", as well as the follow-up pile of crooked reasoning, Gu Biao couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, wanting to laugh but not daring.
"Then do you want me to follow the 'international practice' and go around the factory with you again and listen to others say good things about you?" Gu Biao teased helplessly.
In my memory, when I made a little progress in middle school, I was taken to the factory by my father and accepted compliments from my colleagues, which was really embarrassing.
But fortunately, this time, Dad also knows ugliness, and he doesn't have to be so cheesy anymore.
"That's not necessary, your father is the factory director, and if you go to the subordinates in the factory to show that you have a good son, then what sense of accomplishment is there? Even if you are a second ancestor who has no ability, they will blow you as if you are more productive!
Since you are the director of the factory, of course, you must have the appearance of the factory director, and only in front of the directors of other fraternal units can you be called capable! You can do your own things well these days, and just listen to my final arrangements for entertainment. ”
Gu Biao pondered for a while, and suddenly felt that what his father said seemed to be very reasonable.
Showing off his son in front of his subordinates is something that people who don't have self-confidence do.
"Then I'll follow you, I'll go to Flower Harbor to watch the fish in the past two days and see how the movie made by the ponies is doing. ”