7 days ago
Linkorama : The dramatic effect of a firm nudge - Findings of this kind suggest that even when people have freedom of choice they are influenced, or nudged, by the context in which their decisions are made. This power gives business and governments opportunities.
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10 days ago
philgyford : Income Gap and Marginal Tax Rate 1917-2006 at Visualizing Economics - Ouch. Difference in income for rich and poor in the US over the past century, compared to the tax rate.
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21 days ago
Greg Storey : Noncompete clauses no longer work in California. - "As long as you don't steal trade secrets or confidential information, you can do what you want."
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27 days ago
Linkorama : Venture Fund Economics: Gross and Net Returns - Really great series by Fred Wilson
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2 month ago
jcgregorio : The Subprime Mess and Phil Gramm: An Experiment in Deregulation | InjuryBoard Los Angeles - Hard to lay the blame for the second Bush recession all on one man, but Gramm comes close to earning it.
deusx : The Subprime Mess and Phil Gramm: An Experiment in Deregulation | InjuryBoard Los Angeles - "In 1999, former Senator Phil Gramm (who is, incidentally, Senator John McCain's economic adviser and cochairs his presidential campaign) set out to completely gut the Glass-Steagall Act, and did so successfully,"
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2 month ago
wearehugh : Burnham's Beat: Fannie Mae's Golden Goose: A Lesson In Moral Hazard
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mmb : Economics of POW Camp - Economics of POW Camp via POW camp economics (kottke.org) [via]
philgyford : Economics of POW Camp - Fascinating description of the bartering network in World War II Prisoner of War camps. (via Kottke)
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2 month ago
Linkorama : The Economics of Software - As Keynes famously pointed out, "in the long run, we are all dead" -- so don't count on any less sighing or groaning or check writing in the immediate future...
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Excellent HBR piece challenging the Long Tail - It's an excellent article, and although I don't agree with all the conclusions, I'm delighted to see research of this rigor on the topic
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4 month ago
gleuschk : Are US Inflation and Employment Underestimated? | MetaFilter - great comment in the thread about the (apparently woefully uninformed and confused) Harper's article
mmb : Are US Inflation and Employment Underestimated? | MetaFilter - Are US Inflation and Employment Underestimated? | MetaFilter
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4 month ago
philgyford : Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After All - New York Times - A paper rebuts the Easterlin paradox (that above a certain level money doesn't make one happier). (via Kevin Kelly)
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5 month ago
adamrg : Cash-strapped Clinton fails to pay bills - If she had paid off the $8.7 million in unpaid bills she reported as debt and had not loaned her campaign $5 million, the cash she would have had available at the end of last month to spend on television ads... would have been less than $2 million.
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5 month ago
adamrg : Wal-Mart Wants $10 CDs - Well, I suppose that my interests had to align with WalMart eventually. I suppose that's not even true, I just buy off AmazonMP3.
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adamrg : Taming the Beast - "If Wall Street companies can count on being rescued like banks, then they need to be regulated like banks." Excellent Krugman essay, and I frequently disagree with him. Tempted to hand this to my students to see what they make of it.
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5 month ago
nelson : Gawker's payroll - Details of what Gawker pays their bloggers; $80k / year for the top ones
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5 month ago
adamrg : The man behind Abercrombie & Fitch - The turkey neck, liver spots, and old man ankles ruin the transformation. Creepy!
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Inside the Demise of Bear Stearns - WSJ.com - The past six days have shaken American capitalism.
nelson : Bear Stearns deal - Day by day account of the negotiation
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Greg Storey : Beware of Freeconomics. - It's Communism 2.0.
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Linkorama : Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business - Over the past decade, however, a different sort of free has emerged. The new model is based not on cross-subsidies — the shifting of costs from one product to another — but on the fact that the cost of products themselves is falling fast.
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Greg Storey : The rise of BRIC. - How Brazil, Russia, India and China are reshaping the marketing world.
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wearehugh : The Science Creative Quarterly » TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS EXPLAINED WITH SMURFS
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7 month ago
philgyford : Measuring Worth - Calculators - Tools for calculating things like the current value of historical UK pounds or US dollars.
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7 month ago
Greg Storey : Bono vs. Gore. - "Can we end poverty without wrecking our planet?"
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7 month ago
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The Free Market Fairy
wearehugh : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The Free Market Fairy
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