Saturday, April 3, 2010

Business models and secret sauces

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As mentioned in the last post, today's New York Times has an article of the good people at Talx. One thing that caught my eye was this ...

Sleaziness as a business model -- first of two posts on Talx

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Contesting Jobless Claims Becomes a Boom Industry By JASON DePARLE WASHINGTON — With a client list that reads like a roster ...
Friday, April 2, 2010

Statistics is common sense raised to a science

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And Nate Silver is a very good statistician. From Five Thirty-eight : That de Rugy has testified before Congress on the basis of her evidenc...

More on social norming

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Rajiv Sethi picks up the ball from Freakonomics and runs with it : This question lies at the heart of the lifelong work of Elinor Ostrom, c...
Thursday, April 1, 2010

In keeping with the season

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Here's an April Fool's Day piece on joke-stealing, social norms and intellectual property (via Mark Thoma): ...Comedians have rules...

Two thoughts on April Fool's Day blogging

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1. I'd better be careful linking to any too-good-to-be-true stories. 2. Wait a minute! This is the blogosphere; how much less reliable c...

Skipping the math

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From Felix Salmon : Justin Fox sums up the overwhelming majority of economics papers in one sentence: The basic form of an academic economi...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Blockbusters, Franchises and Apostrophes

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More on the economics of genre fiction The story so far: last week Andrew Gelman had a post on a book that discussed the dominance of best ...

Vanishing media

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Brad Plummer shares the following examples of how ephemeral some of our art and images are: Actually, though, we don't even need to con...

Another outstanding (and tragic) economics story from This American Life

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"A car plant in Fremont California that might have saved the U.S. car industry. In 1984, General Motors and Toyota opened NUMMI as a jo...

Let's talk about sex

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More cool stuff from the New York Times' best science writer (not that the others have set the bar that high)
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The real thing

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Jaime Escalante dies at 79; math teacher who challenged East L.A. students to 'Stand and Deliver' Jaime Escalante, the charismatic f...

Today's pointer

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I am on the road (trasporting 3 pets solo -- don't ask) so blooging is very light. But John D Cook brought up an interesting point toda...

Hey, I used to work there

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The Decline of the Middle (Creative) Class

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I suggested in an earlier post that the rise to dominance of the thriller had not been accompanied by a rise in quality and reputation. In ...
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