Showing posts with label Karl Smith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Karl Smith. Show all posts
Saturday, January 7, 2012

Behavioral Economics for Firms

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On Friday I read this piece by Karl Smith on Apple and this piece by Matt Yglesias on Barnes and Noble .  I was struck by how both of these...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

When a model simply doesn't match reality

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Karl Smith relates a story from Megan McArdle : A woman called me out of the blue last week and told me her self-sufficiency counselor h...
Monday, November 28, 2011

Apple Stock

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Karl Smith is bearish on Apple : On the one hand you can buy Apple stock for $375 a share and pay $7 to ScottTrade. On the other hand I also...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

Contradictions

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Karl Smith is striking me as an optimist : In any case, during the GOP Google debate there was a poll that asked GOP voters if someone shoul...
Monday, October 3, 2011

The danger of deserve

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Karl Smith: On Facebook I think Robin framed the question as “how weak do temptations have to be before they make people less deserving of c...
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Monday, September 19, 2011

Principal agents

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I suspect that this reaction to a press release by the CEO of Netflix is just a principal agent problem : In classical economics AOL shoul...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

Personal Finance talk

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There has been a lot of discussion of personal finances in the blogsphere this weekend, and several really good points have been made. I wa...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Medical Free Markets

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This is a very interesting post by Karl Smith : Lack of jobs is why everyone feels bad, not because they have less or are poorer or the c...
Friday, May 20, 2011

Tax Policy

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Mark has been discussing the concerns about the hardship that tax increases would inflict on those with an income exceeding $250,000 per yea...