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A lot of things in school are experiential - - activities where you can learn what it 's like to be an entrepreneur , understand what international companies want , or discover what it 's like to be an investment banker . Just as there is an optimal level of available capital ( too little and companies starve , too much and you get the excesses of the dot-com era ) , suppose that in the economy at large there is also an optimal level of confidence , one at which entrepreneurs en masse take on just the right amount of risk to flourish and no more . I want businesses to account for their use of research funded by government agencies like the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation , as well as research funded by public universities - - especially when businesses like drug companies sell , at hugely inflated prices , products based on that tax-funded research . For example , when two companies merge , the principle of mean reversion no longer applies and the robot , if not turned off , would perform money-losing trades . We pointed out to your officials that companies sell , rent and trade mailing lists to each other . The object , companies say , is to improve customer service and marketing . The great companies say , well , wait a minute , we can do better .