Ketika Kau

Jika kau merasa lelah dan tak berdaya dari usaha yang sepertinya sia-sia…
Allah SWT tahu betapa keras engkau sudah berusaha.

Ketika kau sudah menangis sekian lama dan hatimu masih terasa pedih….
Allah SWT sudah menghitung air matamu.

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A Theory of an Intelligently Guided Invisible Hand Wins the Nobel Prize

“WHAT on earth is mechanism design?” was the typical reaction to this year’s Nobel prize in economics, announced on October 15th. In this era of “Freakonomics”, in which everyone is discovering their inner economist, economics has become unexpectedly sexy. So what possessed the Nobel committee to honour a subject that sounds so thoroughly dismal? Why didn’t they follow the lead of the peace-prize judges, who know not to let technicalities about being true to the meaning of the award get in the way of good headlines? (more…)