Sunday, December 31, 2017

Using The Market (ala Airbnb) To Help Migrating Birds

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See Using the Airbnb Model to Protect the Environment by Seema Jayachandran in The NY Times. Seema Jayachandran is an economics professor ...
Saturday, December 30, 2017

Higher economic status can offset lower physical attractiveness in men much more easily than in women

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See Different impacts of resources on opposite sex ratings of physical attractiveness by males and females . "Abstract Parental in...
Friday, December 29, 2017

Can the Robot Revolution Create Enough Jobs?

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See How the Robot Revolution Could Create 21 Million Jobs: Data detective, man-machine teaming managers: some of the ways human workers are ...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

Why Economics Is Really Called 'the Dismal Science': The (not-so-dismal) origin myth of a ubiquitous term

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By Derek Thompson of The Atlantic Monthly . From 2013. "The story goes like this: Thomas Carlyle, a Scottish writer and philosopher,...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Must-reads of 2017, from monopolies to sexism

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By Noah Smith . He is a Bloomberg View columnist. He was an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University. Here are my three fa...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Is Technology Holding Down Inflation?

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See As the Fed Deliberates, Amazon Is Making Its Job More Difficult: Comparison shoppers keep a lid on inflation, complicating deliberations...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

Vanilla is so valuable now that it needs to be guarded

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See Your Passion for Fancy Vanilla Ice Cream Is Creating World-Wide Havoc: With the price skyrocketing, farmers in Madagascar, the industry’...
Friday, December 22, 2017

Would You Pay $50,000 So Your Baby Can Be Born In The USA?

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See Saipan: The Island Where Chinese Mothers Deliver American Babies: Women looking to give birth to U.S. citizens have found a loophole in ...
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Thursday, December 21, 2017

The time demands of many jobs can explain much of the gender pay gap

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See How to Win the Battle of the Sexes Over Pay (Hint: It Isn’t Simple.) by Claudia Goldin. She is a professor of economics at Harvard Univ...
Friday, December 15, 2017

Does It Matter If We Call Entrepreneurs Heroes?

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First, a funny comic from Non Sequitur Should society call entrepreneurs heroes? Are they like heroes from mythology? Those may seem l...
Tuesday, December 05, 2017

Is There A Christmas Tree Shortage?

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See No Tannenbaum! There’s a Christmas-Tree Shortage by Valerie Bauerlein of The Wall Street Journal. They seem to be saying that there h...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Does It Matter If We Call Entrepreneurs Heroes?

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First, a funny comic from Non Sequitur Should society call entrepreneurs heroes? Are they like heroes from mythology? Those may seem l...