Content tagged economics
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Negative, rather political review of Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: “But Klein was intellectually unfazed. Rather than re-think the economicist … gulfstream/2483
Excellent timeline of the chain of events that led United Airlines’ stock to plunge from $12 to $3 on the strength of a false news story that it had … gulfstream/2516
Lehman and AIG FAQ, from two of Levitt’s UChicago colleagues. gulfstream/2525
James Surowiecki: “All companies, of course, worry about how their stock is doing. But for most the stock price is a product of performance, rather than … gulfstream/2528
James Surowiecki ever bit as good a blogger as you might expect. Shame about the lack of RSS feed. [Update: A few people pointed out that there is one … gulfstream/2541
Chris Anderson on the Long Tail: “I’ll end by conceding a point: It’s hard to make money in the Tail.” gulfstream/2554
“Cash-strapped American Airlines announced a new series of fees this week that will apply to all customers not currently flying, scheduled to fly, or … gulfstream/2559
Bruce Schneier answers some questions on security. Not as paranoid as you might think: he uses the same password for low security sites, buys stuff from … gulfstream/2359
Differences in consumption per person are much less dramatic than differences in income (in the US): “If we look at consumption per person, the difference … gulfstream/2395
In 2001 the Swiss ambassador to London invited graffiti artists to decorate the underground carpark of the Swiss Embassy, one of whom turned out to be … gulfstream/2405
“Today, more than 40 percent of the black girls born in California in a given year receive a name that not one of the roughly 100,000 baby white … gulfstream/1721
“To this end, Chen has taken steps to ensure that future monkey sex at Yale occurs as nature intended it.”—do monkeys understand money? gulfstream/1767
Curious: Cory Doctorow endorses ISP’s plan to monitor network traffic, report what songs are being traded (via audio-analysis software) back … gulfstream/1825
“Why is Africa Still Poor?” (Book reviews.) gulfstream/1857
Adam L. Penenberg proposes that Apple run iTunes like a stock market, with price determined by demand. “The more people who download the … gulfstream/1901
The restaurants in Ikea’s German stores are apparently very popular: there’s only 37 stores, but they have the 11th highest revenue.“Flocks … gulfstream/1921
Julian Dibbell makes $11,000 selling items on Ultima Online, asks the IRS if this is taxable income, or what. They don’t know, and suggest that … gulfstream/1937
(Debt as a percentage of GDP.) The US is below a whole lot of countries, including Japan, Germany and France. I don’t really understand what all this … gulfstream/2031
A whole heap of stuff is being built—somewhat improbably, given its history, climate, prospects—in Dubai. gulfstream/2040
Measuring poverty: in the US, the poverty line for the last 40 years has been set at three times a (very minimal) food budget. This approach has many … gulfstream/2045
The sad story of Nauru: in the 1970s, the people of Nauru were amongst the richest in the world (the whole island is basically phosphate); now the government … gulfstream/2065
The shapeless official website of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffet’s $136bn (+ $25bn in B stock?) holding company. The Message from Warren Buffet … gulfstream/2081
Long Tail doubters: Slate says Anderson is overreaching; the WSJ says his data is bogus. I’m still pretty skeptical of this (previously); whatever the … gulfstream/2127
Malcolm Gladwell: the success of a company (or country) is determined, to a great extent, by the ratio of workers to dependent non-workers. (GM has 453,000 … gulfstream/2141
Great story: Steven Levitt, playing in a poker tournament to celebrate his 10 year wedding anniversary, plays like a crazy man in order to either lose … gulfstream/2170
James Surowiecki: Nintendo is #3 in the console game, but is making solid profits. Do you need to aspire to be #1? gulfstream/2195
Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics, argues against tenure. “What does tenure do? It distorts people’s effort so that they face strong incentives … gulfstream/2251
the economics of drug distribution (amusingly academic). Many other good, related, articles: see the "In this Survey" sidebar. gulfstream/483
"My Life as a Nontraditional Ticket Reallocation Special." The alternative economics of ticket scalping. gulfstream/681
New Yorker article on the ethics and economics of AIDS research. This is blurbed as being on whether it’s appropriate to subject AIDS research … gulfstream/1117
Slate is now making money. (Also discussion of how being an arm of Microsoft helps, general analysis of the economics of web publishing.) … gulfstream/1130
There’s a great article in yesterday’s Australian Financial Review about how Washington—which in 2001 convinced Vietnamese officials … gulfstream/1165
Nobel Prize for Literature committee is still fucking up citations. The subjugating power of cliches? What? (Compare them to the citations for … gulfstream/1584
Overview of time-sensitive road tolls. Economics prof: “Everyone accepts that if your car is stationary, it’s fine to pay for parking. But if you … gulfstream/2230
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arch-capitalism! kinda lazy economics here too, but provoking nevertheless.
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tax levied to change behaviour, rather than raise revenue
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