The Harvard Gazette begins with:
Antanas Mockus had just resigned from the top job of Colombian National University.
I'm amused it doesn't say why. (He was going to talk on a stage; students were shouting so loud he couldn't speak; he mooned them, they shut up, he gave his talk. On national television, too.)
[Edit] It does say why, but a while into the article.
I have to say: he certainly 'won'. Rationality or not, that is one impressive list of results.
Is there a difference between a "radical instrumental rationalist" and an unconventionally successful leader?
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