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Photo: laszlo Sometimes the e-mail in-box captures a pitch that’s just too good to not share. It is probably not the best time to be casting a reality show about…
Photo: laszlo Sometimes the e-mail in-box captures a pitch that’s just too good to not share. It is probably not the best time to be casting a reality show about…
…Bureau of Economic Research and I will name no names but a Yale economist [Nalebuff] and a Yale law school professor [Ayres] have advised the world that when you are…
Having already amassed an eventful resume — the Clinton White House, the Department of Justice, and Bertelsmann — Joel I. Klein spent the past eight years as chancellor of the…
…rates spike during college football game days: [The authors’] findings are quite striking, and they report large rises in assaults, vandalism, and disorderly conduct on game days. As might be…
…or maybe the next day, from San Francisco and elsewhere. *I originally attributed this quote to Andre the Giant, but was duly corrected in the comments; thanks to the commenters….
…London’s Royal Opera House have been raising their legs higher and higher. (More here.) So why, over the same time period, have professional basketball players not improved their free-throw shooting?…
…one can bring back the war dead; no one can unspill the oil; no one can compensate a child for twelve years of bad schooling. All that truly contrite leaders…
…was completely convincing to me, and indeed after talking to him I gathered a bunch of data from the Tour de France.? An undergraduate working for me found suggestive, but…
…questions. Q: How does the U.S. compare with other nations in its quest to create a common paper currency? A: Many countries at comparable stages of economic development embraced uniform,…
…So comparing the return of one to the other is very much comparing an apple to an orange. 3. You also have to face the fact that most guys who…
The “molecular gastronomy” movement — which gets a bump in visibility next month with the publication of the mammoth cookbook “Modernist Cuisine” — is all about bringing more science into…
…time, Nike (which Phil Knight sort of thinks of as a family company). Perez is the first non-family CEO of Wrigley in the company’s 115 years; Bill Wrigley Jr. will…
…(or cheat more, I guess). If I were a tax scholar interested in this concept, I would be taking a good, hard look at the current behavior of top-tier professional…
…of town.” In Norway, there’s a quota for women on corporate boards, which seems to be working out well; is there a corollary to consider for U.S. zoning boards? [%comments]…
The bad news: roughly 70 percent of Americans are financially illiterate. The good news: all the important stuff can fit on one index card. Here’s how to become your own…
…representation from industries including insurance, banking, the tax professional community, small and large businesses, colleges and universities, state tax administrations, software and the payroll community.” If you’re still interested —…
Say you’re a talented young athlete. Would you rather be a doctor, a lawyer, or a Malaysian soccer star? Chances are, once you realize how little Malaysians pay their professional…
…the Pitfalls on the Road to Victory in Professional Sports , the general manager of the sports-economics blog Wages of Wins, and is a frequent contributor to the Freakonomics blog….
…ways that one could make a compelling case for the pesticides argument. For instance, by comparing people in areas heavily affected by pesticides to those who are not. Or by…
…the locker next to him, that I was lying to them and these autographs weren’t for fans and that I was just selling these pictures to professional dealers, that I…
…imperfection of the Realtor’s commission model, this column takes a somewhat different tack. But if we had wanted to write a really good column about Realtor commissions, we would have…
It’s a surprisingly hard question to answer. Bapu talks with a health economist about a natural experiment that led to some unexpected findings….
I still love the book “A Million Little Pieces,” but having carefully read the outstanding investigative reporting done by thesmokinggun.com, I’m pretty disgusted that someone would try to pass this…
…Driving?” stickers for teenagers. Check out tell-my-mom.com (howsmydriving.com has a special program for senior drivers as well). Bumper stickers might also keep your car from getting stolen. The Feds help…
That’s how PMSBuddy.com pitches itself. To wit: PMSBuddy.com is a free service created with a single goal in mind: to keep you aware of when your wife, girlfriend, mother, sister,…
…rural communities and in the South and Midwest. Jezebel.com includes the numbers on abortion providers by religion: 40.2 percent of Jewish doctors say yes, compared with 1.2 percent of Evangelical…
Bapu tries to stump master clinician Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal with a medical mystery….
Everyone agrees that massive deforestation is an environmental disaster. But most of the standard solutions — scolding the Brazilians, invoking universal morality — ignore the one solution that might actually…
…cover — and note that Amazon.com has indeed inserted a colon after “Palestine,” as has BarnesandNoble.com. But the New York Times treats all four words as the title — and,…
