Making a Gift to Haiti That Matters
…example of how generous contributions combined with human capital can have a real impact in a crisis. It is an email we received on January 20th from the founders of…
…example of how generous contributions combined with human capital can have a real impact in a crisis. It is an email we received on January 20th from the founders of…
…instructional videos at www.expertinsight.com, tireless fundraising efforts to help fight cancer, and plans to win his first WSOP bracelet this summer. Plus he is an extremely nice guy. Smart too….
…undergoing demolition. I was blessed to have the opportunity to spend time with tenants, many of whom let me (and a camera) into their lives. (For more information see www.dislocationfilm.com)….
…editions for sale on www.amazon.com (“Amazon”) and music found on new movie DVD’s for sale on Amazon. By examining what is for sale “on the shelf,” the analysis of this…
…have made seminal contributions to our understanding of this behavioral phenomenon.) For example, suppose you’re at the store and a fancy bottle of wine catches your eye. You notice the…
(Photo credit: www.LendingMemo.com) Tim Harford, who writes the Financial Times‘s “Undercover Economist” column, has appeared on our blog many times. This guest post is part of a series adapted from…
…Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life. List appeared in our recent podcast “How to Raise Money Without Killing a Kitten“; the post below offers a fuller…
…Eventually his assailants flee and immediately the cameraman and others run up to Derrion. Someone says, “Get up, son.” His friends pick him up and bring him into a community…
…long (56 pages!) academic article,?Compensating Commitments: The Law and Economics of Commitment Bonds That Compensate for the Possibility of Forfeiture, teasing out the intricacies of compensated commitments.? For example, it…
…it had the competitive pay scale. This result accords with the broader insights from laboratory experiments that others—Muriel Niederle, Lise Vesterlund, Aldo Rustichini, etc.—have found. Of course, this estimate doesn’t…
He wondered if he was in for a Jim Cramer-type beatdown. But it turns out that Jon Stewart gave SuperFreakonomics a thumping endorsement. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon…
…was elected. 6. Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli was appointed to his seat after the previous comptroller, Alan Hevesi, resigned just weeks after his own re-election because of a felony plea for…
…replacing expensive experienced teachers with lower-cost newer teachers. Combined with the aging of the teacher workforce, these ERIs are likely to change the composition of teachers dramatically in the coming…
…Statistics Report Volume 58, Number 19, May 2010, Table 29. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr58/nvsr58_19.pdf. Homicide data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, Expanded Homicide Data 2007, Table 20. Available at http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/data/table_20.html….
…contributors: In nearly half of the [Louisiana Supreme Court cases reviewed], over a 14-year period [that] ended in 2006, a litigant or lawyer had contributed to at least one justice,…
If you go to your Web browser and type in www.swivel.com, all you get is a pretty little “coming soon” banner. But if you read about Swivel here on TechCrunch,…
…another reason: appeals for money encouraging credit card use are far more effective than appeals calling for cash, according to a a recent study. Somebody please notify Gay Talese. [%comments]…
…the past few years. As this new site is very much a work in progress, we’d appreciate your feedback. Please leave questions, suggestions, and complaints in the comments section below….
Is pride an emotion? Where’s the line between self-esteem and hubris? And what does Stephen have against peacocks? Take the Seven Deadly Sins survey: freakonomics.com/nsq-sins/…
…it big. This was during the early dotcom years. (His company, which designed corporate websites, was bought in the sort of corporate roll-up that was common then.) But, as if…
(Photo: Håkan Dahlström) ESPN.com recently offered a somewhat confusing article comparing the 2012 U.S. Men’s Olympic basketball team to the 1992 Dream Team. The headline of the article – “LeBron:…
Ellen Langer is a psychologist at Harvard who studies the mind-body connection. She’s published some of the most remarkable scientific findings Steve has ever encountered. Can we really improve our…
There’s a new news aggregator in town, called Newser.com, and from the quick look I gave it this morning, it immediately looks like one of the best I’ve seen. It…
Clementine Jacoby went from performing in a circus to founding a nonprofit that works to shrink the prison population….
When Stephen Dubner learned that Dallas–Fort Worth will soon overtake Chicago as the third-biggest metro area in the U.S., he got on a plane to find out why. Despite getting…
American politics is trapped in a duopoly, with two all-powerful parties colluding to stifle competition. We revisit a 2018 episode to explain how the political industry works, and talk to…
If we could reboot the planet and create new systems and institutions from scratch, would they be any better than what we’ve blundered our way into through trial and error?…
She’s best known for playing neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler on The Big Bang Theory, but the award-winning actress has a rich life outside of her acting career, as a teacher,…
Humans have a built-in “negativity bias,” which means we give bad news much more power than good. Would the Covid-19 crisis be an opportune time to reverse this tendency?
The U.S. is home to seven of the world’s 10 biggest companies. How did that happen? The answer may come down to two little letters: V.C. Is venture capital good…
