At Least He’s a Patriot
…accused of putting a friend on the payroll and, more interestingly, of using his office to oversee his personal thoroughbred horse-racing operation. And most interesting of all are the names…
…accused of putting a friend on the payroll and, more interestingly, of using his office to oversee his personal thoroughbred horse-racing operation. And most interesting of all are the names…
…rich and thoughtful book, mixing history, analysis, outrage, and remedy. (Photo: Jon Gosier) The beginning of wisdom, it was said, is to call things by their right names. By that…
…Dubner and Levitt have blogged regularly about real estate here, including this virtual real estate roller coaster and the question of whether street names affect property values. In their paper…
…plants take years and years to construct, if they open at all. “Behind schedule” and “cost overrun” seem to be nuclear power’s middle names. The political, economic, and environmental impacts…
…own lines of pot (think Marlboro Reefer or even Budweiser Bud)? Or would it take a while for them to feel comfortable associating their brand names with something formerly illegal?…
…her success in life. Apparently they didn’t read Freakonomics, or at least they didn’t believe it. So what qualities did these parents want their chosen names to have? For boys,…
…an even wider appeal. Each year in December the Yale Book of Quotations names the most notable quotations of the year — from politics, entertainment, the arts, sports, religion, or…
…attracting improper behavior, often via false taxpayer names and ID numbers. Education credits can be overstated when the taxpayer self-reports qualifying expenditures for supplies and travel. Oversight of energy credits…
In a few weeks we’ll be putting out a Freakonomics Radio episode about baby names. To hold you over until then, here’s an article about a naming-rights story that is…
Some of the biggest names in behavioral science stand accused of faking their results. Last year, an astonishing 10,000 research papers were retracted. In a series originally published in early…
…policy debate too. Anyway, we all pride ourselves on having amusing or clever team names. This year, with the current economic crisis, I thought a team name related to economics…
…know that I mailed an additional 1500 bookplates this week. Those silly authors finally found the time, between frivolities like writing and researching, to sign their names a couple thousand…
…this Web site, fulfilling bookplate requests, etc.): Dubner posted recently about intentionally misspelled domain names, such as Stockpickr.com, that aim to grab clumsy typists and/or poor spellers. The idea that…
…after their names feel that this is a real problem, so I’m inclined to think they are correct. I always encourage people to do their own research — there is…
…your clients, and if so, how? A. Yes. Always. I insist that they give me their full names and their place of work so that I can contact them there…
A number of countries have passed naming laws, forbidding citizens from giving their kids certain types of names, but North Korea’s new naming law is more meaningful. The government has…
…they used to flag female names as potential fraud, since an angry mother or wife so often called to demand a refund), demographic information from web analytics services, and demographic…
…or “bikini-clad magazine models given random names.” Here’s the BPS Digest: The key finding is that the girls and undergrads who viewed the sexualized athlete images tended to say they…
…told me my name proved when we were first out of grad school and he was doing his names research that ended up in Freakonomics. What kind of progression in…
…references to MONTY n. and MONTE n.1, are still more speculative. Earlier currency is app. implied by the following names of fish and chip shops: 1982 Yellow Pages: Manchester North…
…idea may become a regular feature on Stockpickr. I can’t wait to see what kind of stocks James digs up for our next post on crack cocaine or baby names….
Man who “sold his soul” on e-Bay speaks out. (Earlier) Baby named “Wrigley Fields” by Cub fan parents. (Earlier) Low on pork, China opens its strategic pig reserves. Can 25…
…who devotes time to pestering friends and relatives for information before departing on a trip frequently obtains the names of such contacts. On a recent trip to Stockholm, my wife…
…an idiot. It’s all strikingly similar to the way we act on the internet, in what’s called the “online disinhibition effect.” We can lurk behind screen names (our car and…
…The University prohibits me from using real names, so third-party validation is difficult to achieve. So, in practice, I work in teams, where many people can discuss what we all…
…been on Smiley’s show.) We touched on these subjects, albeit glancingly, in Freakonomics. The most detailed discussion of the gap between blacks and whites concerned first names. We also discussed…
…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…
We’ve blogged in the past about aptonyms — names that fit the people who own them, like a magazine fact-checker named Paige Worthy — and we’ve even held an aptonym…
…just with a different set of players, and then Landis switched the names. Further convincing me that there is likely to be truth to what Landis says are personal conversations…
…in trouble off the field. Unfortunately, you don’t have to think very hard to come up with a lot of big names from the recent past: Michael Vick, Ben Roethlisberger,…
