Does anyone know if anyone has held an "economist Olympics?" via one of these
games (e.g. Sim City)? It seems like it might be a fun tool for evaluating
policy proposals. For example, suppose two economists disagreed about the
effects of a given policy proposal. To resolve the issue, they
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4054474,00.html
Cashing in on biology Money problems? Blame evolution, says John L
Casti.
Some economic strategies are hard-wired
John L Casti
Guardian
Thursday August 24, 2000
How do our concepts of economic exchange arise out of
psa.html
Not directly related to software patents, but Hal Varian and Carl Shapiro's book
_Information Rules_ may be useful:
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/people/hal/articles.html
Hope this helps!
Chris Rasch
I found a number of anti-patent quotes posted by Gordon Irlam in the
Coalition for Networked Information mail archive
at http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/1994-04/0648.html.
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Subject: Re: Articles, Books Against
Just thought I would offer a pointer to www.eh.net, the Economic History
Services web server. It has several dozen book reviews, an abstract
database, and a number of other useful services.
http://www.eh.net/bookreviews/title.php
Chris Rasch
Does anyone know of any studies examining how much firms benefit (if
any) from non-compete agreements?
While doing research on that question, I found this interesting paper:
BIASES IN THE INTERPRETATION AND USE OF RESEARCH RESULTS
Robert J. MacCoun
Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public
Hi
Not true. If the audience is randomly distributed, then even a
sequential selection of questioners gives everyone an equal chance of
being chosen. I admit that it would appear biased, which is
important to the audience, but from a purely rational viewpoint, is
it helpful to choose
THE CASE AGAINST THE PATENT SYSTEM
by Pierre Desrochers
Senior Research Fellow, Urban Studies, Institute for Policy Studies,
Johns Hopkins University
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/000902-3.htm
"As many psychologists and historians of technology have
Hi Pierre,
I don't see how the incentives of government, public-health
bureaucrats, or the way they are selected, makes them more impartial.
The EPA's manipulation of evidence in the secondhand-smoke case
illustrates this quite strikingly. U.S. District Judge William Osteen:
?The court is
Hi David,
To begin with, neither John Lott nor David Mustard is or was a
University of Chicago professor. Mustard was, I'm pretty sure, a grad
student, and Lott was an Olin Fellow--a visiting position.
Thank you for the correcting my error. I don't think that my error(s)
detract from my
Hi David,
Unfortunately, as the reaction to Lott's work demonstrated, that
perception has very little connection to reality. Opponents claimed
that the work was funded by the firearms industry--on the grounds
that the Olin foundation got its money long ago from the Olin
Corporation, which
jsamples wrote:
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I agree with you--I don't believe that public health bureaucrats will
necessarily be more impartial. The point of Ropeik's article was that,
initially, the EPA and the automobile
Hi,
I came across a couple of articles I thought you might enjoy.
Competitive advantage through people
California Management Review; Berkeley; Winter 1994; Pfeffer, Jeffrey;
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/pagana/mg330/pfeffer.html
I believe this article summarizes a book of the same name:
Coming from Good Stock: Where Do Innovative Ventures Come From?
Research by Jesper B. Sorensen
Capital Ideas
Vol. 2, No. 2 Fall 1999
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Some of the most radically innovative products and technologies
today are developed and commercialized not by
Chris Rasch wrote:
Coming from Good Stock: Where Do Innovative Ventures Come From?
Research by Jesper B. Sorensen
Capital Ideas
Vol. 2, No. 2 Fall 1999
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Oops, I forgot the URL for the rest of the research summary:
http
I recently came across this recently in an article on bias in hiring
practices:
"Accounting for Unintended Bias
Even among the most well-intentioned of individuals, the possibility of
unintended bias is present. That is, without knowing that he or she is
doing so, those responsible for hiring
William Dickens wrote:
Be wary of numbers like this. As you might expect, they vary considerably from job
to job. There are big problems with restriction of range in most studies since, for
example, you don't see many highschool dropouts applying for jobs that require a PhD.
Also, is a
velled off
and actually been falling in recent years, especially in California.
Furthermore, the so-called litigation explosion was actually not
much of
an explosion after all. The article is available in the Times
archives
(with free registration) for another day or two. Here are some
excerpt
Hi,
Quoting a forward by Yann Le Du,
* Between 1983 and 1995, only the highest-earning five
percent of
households saw an increase in their financial net
worth. By 1995, the
bottom 40 percent of families headed by those between
the ages of 25-54
had no savings. The middle quintile of
http://www.babson.edu/entrep/fer/papers99/I/I_B/I_B%20Text.htm
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH . . . TOWARD A PSYCHOLOGY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL
FAILURE AND RE-MOTIVATION
Melissa S. Cardon, Columbia School of Business
Rita Gunther McGrath, Columbia School of Business
ABSTRACT
This paper extends a
[Remarkable growth rate in e-gold accounts--3,000 to 130,000
in eighteen months. They also charge much lower transaction fees than
credit card
companies. And via OmniPay, you can pay bills from your e-gold
account. It
will be interesting to see what happens when more and more transactions
Thanking Web Sites, With Cash
By MICHELLE SLATALLA
February 15, 2001
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/15/technology/15SHOP.html?pagewanted=all
ALL me stingy, but I
can't think of a single
time I suddenly got the urge
to pay for something I had
been getting free and could
Despite the recent court decisions against Napster, free music file
sharing (and eventually software, images, film, and anything else that
can be digitized) will likely continue to grow, given the difficulty of
controlling de-centralized P2P systems like Gnutella and Freenet.
According to
Via Joseph Sterlynne on the Extropy list:
NEC Research Institute Technical Report #2000-168.
A brief version appears in Science 291: 987-988, February 9 2001
(Letters).
The Power of Play: Efficiency and Forecast Accuracy in Web Market Games
David M. Pennock
Steve Lawrence
C. Lee Giles
Finn rup
Found this at http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/alumni/assets/news.html.
Finance Professors Pedro Santa-Clara and Rossen Valkanov Find Higher
Equity Premium Under Democratic Presidents: Researchers conduct
analysis of the connection between presidential elections and the
stock market and find some
Hi,
Most of you probably know about the bet between Julian Simon and Paul
Ehrlich. (In brief, Simon bet Ehrlich that the price of any five
commodity metals, of Ehrlich's choosing, would fall. Ehrlich bet they
would rise. The price on all five actually fell, and Ehrlich lost the
bet. For
From: http://www.nature.com/nsu/010906/010906-3.html
Is that study really necessary?
Economics helps decide if we should put our money where
researchers' mouths are. 3 September 2001
JOHN WHITFIELD
Stuck for a punchy conclusion to a
scientific paper? Best avoid the mantra
This looks quite interesting. I'm planning to go. Any armchair denizens
care to join me?
THE FDA: A Healthy Examination -- Live Presentation (3/7/02)
By federal law, all new pharmaceuticals and medical devices are
banned until specifically permitted by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration
Thought that some on this list might be interested in this:
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Among other things, McElroy is a leading propopent of economic freedom for
sex workers. Bay area armchairs may be interested in this lecture:
WENDY McELROY TO DISCUSS LIBERTY FOR WOMEN (San Francisco, Thursday,
May 2, 2002)
http://www.independent.org/tii/forums/020502ipf.html
Individualist
I'd be curious to know where the researchers were when they actually did
the work for which they won the prize. For example, Smith was at Purdue
when he began doing experiments in experimental economics.
http://reason.com/hod/fe.ml.smith.shtml
I think Harsanyi is still at Berkeley.
I enjoyed Alfie Kohn's book Punished by Rewards, which is a
popularization of much of this research.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618001816/qid=1037396034/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-2976940-3732712?v=glances=booksn=507846
I haven't read them yet, but Deci and Dweck seem to be a
Hi,
Some concepts I think that it would be useful for reporters to know:
broken windows fallacy.
Wars don't create jobs on net--war-related jobs supplants jobs that
would've been created by providing non-war related goods/services.
seen vs. unseen
How FDA regulations actually harm health by
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