Our Daily Bleg: What’s the Best From 2008?
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…adopt Americanized first names for the job market. Very few of my students choose to do so — either a testimony to the identity cost of pretending to be someone…
…he did others, and he gave me a short response. “I don’t see the fighters on SportsCenter.” So why aren’t we hearing boxers’ names alongside the likes of Brett Favre…
…fund. You simply pick the portfolio that dovetails with when you think you might retire. (These funds will have a target retirement year as part of their names.) The portfolio…
…the book that lists the popularity of names and accompanying average education level of the mother. Like many suburban kids, they are overscheduled. True to the stereotype of Korean-American mothers,…
…Google Alerts is also a great substitute for email, at least for the thousands of academics, journalists, and webheads who have alerts on their own names. Quasi-famous people who might…
What do Bruce Pardo and Atif Irfan have in common? In case you’re not familiar with their names, let me rephrase: What do the white guy who dressed up as…
…whether that allows me to say “I read it.” I particularly enjoyed the parts about Realtors and baby names. We actually put a lot of effort into making the home-purchase/Realtor…
As much as we love aptonyms on this blog, we also appreciate a cleverly named store (not, however, all those horrible names for hair salons — Hair Port, Shear Elegance,…
…Engelhardt.) The N.Y. Daily News recently published an article about aptly-named New Yorkers. Don’t mean to carp, but most of them weren’t half as good as the names you all…
…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…
…the Fairy Godmother discovered that their vaults were not full of gold, but ordinary straw. All seemed lost until Santa Claus and his helpers, men with implausible fairytale names such…
…confident somebody is going to write a book with the title [—–]-nomics. I have over 150 domain names within my own industry which is manufacturing so it does not make…
…names and then, after business ended for the week, simultaneously seized all five branches of Chicago’s Heritage Community Bank. The F.D.I.C. takes pains to keep its takeovers secret until the…
…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?…
| A shop owner in England is tackling the litter problem in her neighborhood by marking sweets wrappers and drink bottles with the names of the children buying them. This…
…himself. Another of Hsu’s friends, who goes by dozens of names depending on the situation, tells him “a name is just a dai hao.” In other words, a code name,…
…surveys, the authors determine that opposition voters experienced a 5 percent drop in earnings and a 1.5 percent drop in employment rates after their names were released. The authors also…
A paper by a team of scientists and analysts maps out how fields and subdisciplines emerge in 21st-century science. One of the main findings: much like trendy baby names boom…
…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…
…revenue comes from the derived demand from gold mining, this claimant creates a strategy to induce the hotel owner to reveal the truth: she names a low price and offers…
…Lisa blew my mind when she pointed out how directly the House character was based on Sherlock Holmes: both have names that sound like a domicile (Holmes/House); both are addicted…
…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…
…us uses it up. The local paper is trying to solve the shortage by publishing the names of the biggest residential users and shaming them. I doubt this will help….
…by academic co-authors, consider this interesting footnote in Jackson and Bruegmann’s paper: “Note: In the interest of fairness, the ordering of the authors’ names was determined by a coin flip.”…
…despite having names that, at first, must have seemed a detriment. Do you really think the first producers of Oprah had an easy time with that name? And what about…
…(The headline-grabbing names, such as Krugman, Cochrane, Stiglitz, DeLong, Prescott, or Lucas, are all of an earlier vintage.) If Narayana is right, then perhaps the future is brighter than the…
…(42) or the authors’ names (46)? I believe this is what is meant by “asked and answered.” Here’s a PDF of an earlier draft, albeit with a slightly longer abstract….