New Blog Explores Economics of Digital World: Digitopoly
(Courtesy Joshua Gans) Our friend Joshua Gans, along with some colleagues, has launched a new blog devoted to the economics of digitization called digitopoly.org. Here, in a guest post, he…
Artificial intelligence, we’ve been told, will destroy humankind. No, wait — it will usher in a new age of human flourishing! Guest host Adam Davidson (co-founder of Planet Money) sorts…
Think you know how much parents matter? Think again. Economists crunch the numbers to learn the ROI on child-rearing.
Think you know how much parents matter? Think again. Economists crunch the numbers to learn the ROI on child-rearing.
(Courtesy Joshua Gans) Our friend Joshua Gans, along with some colleagues, has launched a new blog devoted to the economics of digitization called digitopoly.org. Here, in a guest post, he…
My friend Joshua Gans is one of Australia’s best young economists, and he is also a parent. And as passionate as Joshua is about economics, he’s just as passionate about…
Joshua Gans is an economist at the University of Toronto. He has appeared on this blog before and, as the author of Parentonomics: An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting ,…
The Australian economist Joshua Gans, who has shown up on this blog before, has published a new book called Information Wants to Be Shared. It “looks at the struggles facing…
A while back, I wrote about the Game Theorist blog, in which my friend Joshua Gans writes about his adventures as an economist-parent (or equally, as a parent-economist). Each role…
…the phone and deter crime. The success of the iPhone tracking apps suggests that this is a market that is waiting to be more completely filled. (Hat tip: Joshua Gans)…
…our system (we’re working on it), time diversification will require some additional work.? But doing a better job diversifying risk across time can be worth the effort. (Hat Tip:?Joshua Gans)…
…9. Knowing she spent more than 15 years working on the project, it is easier for me to understand how it turned out so great. (Hat tip to Joshua Gans.)…
…might do to encourage parental leave will still not change the fact that it is likely that women will take it up more than men.? –Joshua Gans A. OK, as…
…happened. Joshua Gans is a professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. His book Parentonomics was published by MIT Press in 2009. What is our worse…
…Here’s?a (self-promotional) hint. Can you conjure a?Google trend with a countercyclical pattern (that is, with elevated searching before the New Year but lower than average levels in January)? (HT:?Joshua Gans)…
Joshua Gans, (author of the forthcoming Parentonomics), has an interesting post on “data-driven Parenting.” Turns out that there is a cool web service: Trixie Tracker, that allows parents to record…
Over at CoreEconomics, Joshua Gans points out that Steve Levitt’s research is no longer judged to be normal economics. Or at least his work doesn’t belong with the “normal papers.”…
…effort, stress, and out-of-pocket cost of a singleton. As Joshua Gans of Parentonomics writes: “But regardless of the level of the cost curve for parenting, it is surely the case…
…and happiness, you’ll hear plenty more from Betsey and me, and our own little natural experiment—our daughter Matilda. You’ll also hear from Bryan Caplan, and Joshua Gans of Parentonomics fame….
…to efficient outcomes when exposed to one lead singer of the rock band AC/DC versus another. I hope for this guy’s sake he has tenure. (Hat tip to Joshua Gans.)…
…a humble enough bloke that it won’t go to his head. But it’s always fun to hear about the good guys doing well. Congratulations Andrew! (More here from Joshua Gans.)…