Are Economists Influential Enough?
…some reason, economics is perceived to be a somewhat right-wing discipline. But that can’t be the whole story. So I’m interested: Do you have any other explanations? (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…some reason, economics is perceived to be a somewhat right-wing discipline. But that can’t be the whole story. So I’m interested: Do you have any other explanations? (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…written notification from gamesation.co.uk or one of its duly authorised minions.” Yes, it was an April Fool’s Day joke; GameStation will not be enforcing its ownership rights. (HT: Marginal Revolution)[%comments]…
…contrast, have a life expectancy equivalent to the average American’s life expectancy three decades ago.? Nationwide, Native Americans score the lowest on the American Human Development Index. (HT: Marginal Revolution)[%comments]…
…then declining time investment may signify declining production of human capital-or a dramatic and heretofore undocumented change in the way human capital is being produced on college campuses.”?(HT: Marginal Revolution)[%comments]…
…a fire at a tenth of the usual cost, and we don’t even have to see the fire to fight it,” says Mark Cummins, the company’s founder. (HT: Marginal Revolution)[%comments]…
The Washington Post profiles the omnivorous, endlessly fascinating and fascinated Tyler Cowen (best known in these parts as co-proprietor of Marginal Revolution), asking questions about ethnic food (he’s a devotee);…
…it could take a year to make someone fall in love. If it’s me, I can do it in a day. In this industry, I’m a god.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)[%comments]…
…player to wear a portable electrode as she practiced her serve? She would, after all, just be hastening the same changes that come with ordinary practice.” (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…be more left-wing than their actual beliefs on a substantive issue might suggest.” Rockey also found that men consistently perceive themselves as being more right-wing than women. (HT: Marginal Revolution)[%comments]…
…a one-off, short-term adaptation that is cost-effective, easy to monitor and does not create additional stigma,” said Alan Whiteside, one of the researchers calling for the ban. (HT: Marginal Revolution)[%comments]…
…likely to have autistic children, and the pattern held for undiagnosed autistic children as well. Neuroskeptic hypothesizes that paternal age may be partially responsible for the disparity. (HT: Marginal Revolution)[%comments]…
…tattoos was associated with some positive changes in ratings: students’ motivation, being imaginative about assignments, and how likely students were to recommend her as an instructor.” (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…(And yes, signing one’s enemy up for a porn-magazine subscription really does get his attention.) Readers, any thoughts? What are the limits to an unbranding strategy? (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…about younger people, who are seen as having a higher status in our society.” Younger people, in contrast, preferred to read positive stories about other young’uns. (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…to bet on their own behavior end up losing their bets.” Does the problem lie with the commitment device? Are there more effective devices than money? (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…see Tyler Cowen‘s post at Marginal Revolution.) Early in my graduate career, I wanted to be an economic theorist. My advisor at the time told me I should give a…
…saying that sooner or later, too much credit always turns into a giant debit as borrowers crumple under the burden of escalating interest payments,” writes Zweig. (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…ambassadors, there may be a time where a few wild nights might work for a brand and not against it,” said Joe Hale, a brand consultant. (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…completed theses for those on course to become principals. In the enormous conspiracy that is student cheating, the frontline intelligence community is infiltrated by double agents.” (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…immense rewards that were seen to accrue from innovative marketing, and the fact that the ploys available for use in the naming of drugs are so restricted.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…“cost-effective way to control crime.” And Alex Tabarrok of Marginal Revolution writes on one of his favorite topics: bounty hunting. “Bail might be a rich man’s privilege were it not…
…to be customized to a customer’s goals. Future iterations may include a combination of discounted gym memberships and smaller penalties that apply daily rather than weekly.” (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…the study group were also enormously successful in their chosen field-use causal reasoning. They set a goal and diligently seek the best ways to achieve it.” (HT: Marginal Revolution) [%comments]…
…to run into Schelling and told Schelling he should count me as one of his students. Schelling was unmoved. (For more on Schelling, Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution wrote this.)…
…show no effect. We also test whether the reform reduced?school segregation in Wales, and find no systematic significant impact on either sorting by?ability or by socioeconomic status.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…their website. And, correspondingly, they improved the demand for their products! While I do not know the exact revenue improvement, I was told that it was substantial. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…Aid Watch, Chris Blattman, NYT’s Economix, Marginal Revolution, and Paul Krugman. Using stats from Research Papers in Economics, it found spikes after blogs cover a paper. For us, they found…
…WSJ, David Wessel thinks Krueger’s attractive and good on TV. At Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen puts together a list of his previous Krueger-related posts. And over at his blog, Greg…
…“the whole country had the racial attitudes of the most tolerant areas.” Stephens-Davidowitz concludes that racism gave John McCain “the equivalent of a home state advantage country-wide.” (HT: Marginal Revolution)…
…of full disclosure, it should be noted that Gruber served as an Obama advisor during the 2008 campaign and may not be the most unbiased of observers. (HT: Marginal Revolution)…