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
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=glance&s=books&n=507846
I haven't read them yet, but Deci and Dweck seem to be a
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.
Hi,
Thought this may be of interest.
Also, a reminder that S.F. Bay Area members can sign up for the BA-armchair
list by sending an e-mail to:
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Chris
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From: "Marian
Note:
Since it's doubtful that S.F. Bay Area specific events are of interest to
those of you in say, Fairfax, VA I've created a mailing list for Bay Area
armchairs:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ba-armchair
It's intended for both discussion and announcements, though I expect that it
will mos
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 fem
Hi,
Can anyone recommend some papers/books that cover the operational performance
of companies following emergence from bankruptcy?
Thanks!
Chris
Thought that some on this list might be interested in this:
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You are invited to subscribe to a free news
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
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
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 more
Hi,
Yes, I agree that a decision/idea futures market would be a great idea for
resolving such issues.
Incidentally, any news regarding the implementation of a real money,
full-fledged idea futures market? I heard rumors that someone was actively
working on an real-money exchange in England.
Ch
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 sur
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 Årup N
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 Dolfsma,
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
contin
[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
occur
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 carefu
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 o
s
>> (with free registration) for another day or two. Here are some
>> excerpts:
>
Chris Rasch
According to a Feb 1 article in the Los Angeles Times, "We Aren't
Seeing You in Court", America's litigation levels have levelled 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 a
Roger Lowenstein recently wrote a NYT profile of Richard Thaler and his
work on behavioral economics:
Exuberance Is Rational
By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
February 11, 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20010211mag-econ.html
"...I met Thaler two days after the election, and he was already
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 c
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 ma
Why Do Political Action Committees Give Money to Candidates? Campaign
Contributions, Policy Choices, and Election Outcomes
by Christopher Magee
Department of Economics Bard College
Working Paper 292
December 1999
INTRODUCTION
Rational political action committees (PACs) will give campaign
cont
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 resear
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 exi
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:
H
jsamples wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
>
> 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 automobil
s, we're afraid that while the
results of such studies may give succor to our existing supporters, they will be
unpersuasive to those who have yet to make a decision on the issue. How can the
NRA fund research that won't be easily dismissed as thinly veiled NRA propaganda?"
How would you answer him? (Substitute the HCI, if you support gun control
regulations.)
Chris Rasch
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, whi
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 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 cour
I would suggest if you already have strong belief's about the value of
gun control laws, your opinion on the issue is unlikely to be swayed by
statistical studies counter to your belief, regardless of the quality of
the study. Research by Jonathon Haidt and others suggest that most
people form em
etion Bonds To
Fund Open Source Software Development
http://www.openknowledge.org/writing/open-source/scb/
I would welcome any suggestions, questions, or criticisms you may have.
I'm especially interested in your thoughts regarding my analysis of the
public goods problem in free software development.
Chris Rasch
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
>
> 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 choos
I agree with Bill that people flirt because it's "fun"--but I agree with Robin, that
the reason that people find flirting "fun" is because it is an aid to finding high
quality mates.
>From what I've read, for the most part, women drive the courship process (1). Both
>male and females seek the
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 Pol
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
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.
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gordon Irlam)
Subject: Re: Articles, Books Against Copyrigh
tin/pubs/95psa.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
>From http://www.apa.org/journals/bell.html
Views Two of The Bell Curve
The following book reviews will appear in the May 1995 (Volume 40,
Number 5) issue of Contemporary Psychology, APA's journal of book
reviews.
Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray The Bell Curve: Intelligence
and Class
My current level of understanding of econometrics and statistics is such that I
don't feel qualified to evaluate the arguments presented in the recent exchange
between Brian and Chris regarding the merits (or lack thereof) of Murry and
Herrnstein's research in The Bell Curve. Assuming I wanted to
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 our
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 hav
Bernard Girard wrote:
> That's an idea almost as old as xerography. Does anyone knows of a company (or
> library) that markets this type of service?
>
> michael gilson de lemos a *crit :
>
> > Hmmm. What about on-demand publishing, which is JIT, controlled set-up costs
> > and dependent on photoc
fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
> 1) Has the invention of the xerox machine suppressed book prices
> by offering a cheap (illegal) substitute for new books?
I'm not sure that copying is a cheap subsitute for most books. Assuming
that you're copying a 300 page book, and that copies cost 10
cents/c
Daljit Dhadwal wrote:
> I was just looking at the Liberty Fund Website and they have a large suggested
> reading list. Why is it that they essentially leave out any books that could be
> considered contradictory to their ideology? (I'm sure it's the same for websites
> affiliated with groups on o
Robin Hanson wrote:
> The June 2000 American Economic Review has an article by
> Blomberg & Harrington, "A Theory of Rigid Extremists and
> Flexible Moderates with an Application to the U.S. Congress".
>
> They offer data showing a correlation between political
> extremism and inflexibility in c
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