Quotes Uncovered: Pardon My French
…recent research. George asked: How about the expression “pardon my french”? That’s another Larry David-related quotation (George Costanza claimed he invented it). Hope you read this! The Oxford English Dictionary…
…recent research. George asked: How about the expression “pardon my french”? That’s another Larry David-related quotation (George Costanza claimed he invented it). Hope you read this! The Oxford English Dictionary…
…David Romer and I are the editors. We commissioned the papers, so of course we love ‘em.) Rather than write about the papers, I figured it might make more sense…
…than this, we risk pricing out someone who might benefit from the insights of an academic scribbler. The Brookings Papers on Economic Activity — the journal that David Romer and…
…Publisher’s Margin: $4.75 hardcover; $6.32 e-book. Publisher’s E-Gain = +33% Hell’s Corner, by David Baldacci Author’s Standard Royalty: $4.20 hardcover; $2.63 e-book. Author’s E-Loss = -37% Publisher’s Margin: $5.80…
…of shortly after the test was administered. Some teachers in D.C. are surely wishing there had been a similar lack of storage space in our nation’s capital. (HT: David Clayton)…
Photo: David De Lossy Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of GoDaddy, faces off against Piers Morgan and PETA in a recent video. The issue is simple: Parsons went to Labola,…
Photo: David De Lossy Last week I posted about Bob Parsons from GoDaddy and his elephant hunting/culling trip to Zimbabwe. Parsons went on a trip to Zimbabwe and killed an…
Photo: David Campbell 2 Kings VII discusses an incident in which the people of Israel are besieged and food prices are skyrocketing. A military officer scoffs when “a man of…
…that name. If the names are valuable, why don’t more of them use trademarks? A new paper by David Fagundes explains. Rather than use trademark law, derby girls have instead…
…‘I want to help the environment, I’m looking for eco-friendly products,’ ” said David Donnan, a partner in the consumer products practice at the consulting firm A. T. Kearney. “But…
Photo: Comstock From the Soapbox Science blog on Nature.com, here’s an interesting piece by risk consultant David Ropiek on the ways in which we perceive and react to risk. His…
…a headache, aren’t very price-conscious. But I recently learned the real reason for this phenomenon while interviewing David Lester, a psychologist at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey who…
…Roy Baumeister, Simon LeVay, Paul Vasey, Catherine Salmon, J. Michael Bailey, and the most cited researcher on the topic of sexual psychology, David Buss. Q. Hmm, so the Jezebel article…
…and colleague David MacKay, who shares my antipathy for bad numbers, gave me a copy of a recent article in the UK journal Physics World (“Optoelectronics: a green explosion”, May…
This blog post is co-authored with Jacob Appel, co-author of my recent book, More Than Good Intentions. Among the many questions David Gomberg and Justin Heimberg pose in their hilarious…
Photo: david_shankbone Interesting browsing these days on the prediction market InTrade, which is still mourning the loss of its founder John Delaney (a man I very much enjoyed knowing a…
…Dubner and Freakonomics Radio engineer David Herman. Stephen Dubner, host Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner onstage at the Fitz At left: George Leiter, a former teacher and Quiz Bowl coach…
…atom bomb and burning fossilized carbon. Detailed analyses by experts such as Stanford’s Mark Jacobson, DArjun Makhijani of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, and my colleague S. David…
Photo: david_shankbone Last week, I published an op-ed in the Washington Post suggesting an “appoint and nominate” method by which President Obama could make a recess appointment of Elizabeth Warren…
…David Jevans is chairman of internet security firm IronKey. He is also chairman and founder of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, a leading non-profit dedicated to eradicating identity theft and fraud…
From today’s Times, an article by David Waldstein called “Mets’ Stretch Without a Slam? Gone. Gone“: The Mets had gone 299 games and 280 plate appearances with the bases loaded…
…twice: first with economics, and later with his soon-to-be wife, Gwen. He wrote a terrific thesis under the guidance of Sandy Jencks, Caroline Hoxby and David Ellwood, and then returned…
Photo: David Trebosc Our recent podcast on “conspicuous conservation” looked at the “Prius Effect” — that is, how valuable it is for green-leaning consumers to signal their devotion to the…
…Orange County to the city of San Fernando. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) L.A.’s “Carmageddon” is over. For those in the rest of the country, or Angelenos who spent the…
…The Atlantic, Yahoo, and the Grio. I tracked down the study’s author David Rosen, an epidemiology PhD and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina, to see if…
…C. Anderson and David M. Reeb; their 2003 paper measured founding family ownership present in 35% of firms in the S&P 500. Some estimates say that family businesses account for…
Photo: william_79 The UK riots continue as PM David Cameron and the Metropolitan police flood London with 16,000 officers in hopes of calming the civil unrest. Critics have suggested that…
…that when we blogged a paper, there was an additional 450-470 abstract views and downloads that month. Check out their cool graph: (Courtesy of Berk Ozler and David McKenzie) This…
Photo: Piez In his discussion of the Siege of Paris from 1870-71, David McCullough in The Greater Journey discusses the path of meat prices. One observer “considered cats ‘downright good…
…it is nice, albeit depressing, to see this prediction come true. From David Aronson in the New York Times: Unfortunately, the Dodd-Frank law has had unintended and devastating consequences, as…