Cornering the Market… for He-Man?
…collected 136 Ram Man figures, an exercise he’s dubbed “You Will be Rare” and is documenting on Youtube. Moakes has been at it for well over a year. Judging by…
…collected 136 Ram Man figures, an exercise he’s dubbed “You Will be Rare” and is documenting on Youtube. Moakes has been at it for well over a year. Judging by…
…Q3 62,500 36,960 Q4 87,500 44,014 100k-250k 175,000 87,500 When you adjust to show individual incomes, the income gap is only $65k, not $160k. Interesting exercise, but is it right?…
…transportation authorities stating that traffic as much as 50 miles away would reach nightmare-like proportions. Only a very few, including myself, predicted we would see a situation of unusually light…
…benefits are: You exercise that idea muscle Someone will respond. And that someone will make you money. When I did this technique, one person out of the 40 gave me…
Photo: Spike Mafford You may remember Phil Tetlock from our Freakonomics Radio hour-long episode “The Folly of Prediction.” He’s a psychologist at Penn and author of the deservedly well-regarded book…
…of death during exercise. The findings were published this month in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. You can read the abstract here. What really caught my eye though was…
…which allows songwriters and musicians to exercise their “termination rights” and take back from the record labels many thousands of songs they licensed 35 years ago. So, for example, Boston…
…is that claim? This made the exercise incredibly difficult, as I have enough knowledge to give an extreme answer – true or false – but not enough to give a…
…fats but also reduce exercise (as this study from the Journal of Political Economy suggests). Both substitutions make consumers worse off as they deviate from their preferred consumption bundle and…
…can become a penny waiting for change. Thus Dean misread the Iowa landscape. While voters were focusing in on one overwhelming question — which candidate had the best chance to…
…estimates of the price elasticity and lives saved in each state. We repeat this exercise for other injury-fatality rates, and for nine categories of crime. For each outcome, the estimated…
…Dave, an economist at Bentley University, has found evidence on exercise and eating habits during economic downturns that could conflict with Ruhm’s finding. Obesity plainly has many contributing factors and…
…wants to believe) that behavioral economics has a lot to teach us about real-world investing behavior. The money quote: “What you’re seeing is a gigantic exercise in behavioral finance,” says…
This is a guest post by Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, who is the China Business Editor of The Economist and author of the just-published book Need, Speed, and Greed: How the…
…but please also share what you learn in the comments. I found it a fun and somewhat challenging research exercise. And as you’ll see, it’s not easy reading 1940 handwriting!…
…The study didn’t specifically examine diet, exercise, or sleep habits, but Hoehner suggests they may be to blame. “It could just be a function of having less discretionary time to…
The Associated Press wants prostitutes to stay away from its D.C. bureau. Are CEOs with military experience more honest? The relationship between reading and being skinny. Can exercise be bad…
…in classifying activities: Was it work or was it leisure (exercise), to pick two of the major aggregates that I use in my research? Was it an investment of time…
…plausible to argue that the physician and patient could exercise discretion. The authors further conclude that “the implication of these findings is that expanding health insurance, as recent federal reform…
…to 2016. What this exercise does show, though, is that it is possible to construct a team that is almost as productive – in terms of WP48 – as the…
…button doesn’t mean that it is considerate for you to do so. (You also have a first amendment right to call me names, but that doesn’t make your exercise of…
…society? Baggage charges are part of a larger change: Air travel, even economy class, was once a joy; now it’s an exercise in stoicism. Bring back the Civil Aeronautics Board!…
…least some action is noteworthy. People in the U.S. have used websites where they commit money to a cause if they fail to achieve their exercise or other goals for…
…compared with positive feedback will be efficient. You’ll also hear from Heidi Grant Halvorson, associate director of the Motivation Science Center at the Columbia Business School and the author of…
…Behave When They Have Something To Hide”: We study financial reporting and corporate governance in 216 U.S. companies accused of price fixing by antitrust authorities. We document a range of…
…of not hiring smokers — a practice opposed by 65% of Americans, according to a 2012 poll by Harris International. Where do the authors come down? We agree with those…
…all for different demographics groups during the 2000-2007 period and over the entirety of the 2000s. Using our estimates from this exercise, we calculate that roughly 40 percent of the…
…doesn’t strike me that Weiner’s continuing to run is really about sunk cost. Modern politics is so often an exercise in ego, hubris, and narcissism — and if I were…
…where the angry came out. A certain small number of very vocal men (and it was always men) resented that we were not letting them try to exercise additional control…
…now say that “Bing It On” is meant to be a “lightweight way to challenge people’s assumptions about which search engine actually provides the best results.” To be sure, companies…