Giuliani’s Lost Playbook
…third wife, Judith Nathan Giuliani; ‘social issues,’ on which is he is more liberal than most Republicans, and his former wife Donna Hanover.” If you’re playing the Information Asymmetry game,…
…third wife, Judith Nathan Giuliani; ‘social issues,’ on which is he is more liberal than most Republicans, and his former wife Donna Hanover.” If you’re playing the Information Asymmetry game,…
Nathan Nunn, an economist at the University of British Columbia, has written an interesting working paper called “The Long-Term Effects of Africa’s Slave Trade.” His abstract sums it up well:…
…a fact that happiness breeds a better worker? Not necessarily, according to Wright State University psychologist Nathan Bowling. In a new paper called “Is the job satisfaction-job performance relationship spurious?…
…such, in twenty years, it should look much as it does now — except that Nathan Lane will look notably older. Q: What factors contribute to the high price of…
…was not father to the thought.’” The creation and application of knowledge is at the core of innovation. This knowledge need not always be new; Nathan Rosenberg and David Mowery…
There’s a scarcity of Obamas in the U.S. (HT: Going Like Sixty) Does having a weird name make you more likely to play football for L.S.U.? (HT: Nathan M. Gaudet)…
…I beg to submit that it is the first.” More incisively, George Jean Nathan wrote in Testament of a Critic (1931) that “Patriotism, as I see it, is often an…
…that Takeru Kobayashi started in competitive eating. The Nathan’s 4th of July hot dog eating contest is said to have started in 1916 with the winner eating 13 hot dogs…
…a form of protest. “The ideas of liberty and equality have been an irresistible force in motivating leaders like Patrick Henry, Susan B. Anthony, and Abraham Lincoln, schoolteachers like Nathan…
A new paper by Feng Chi and Nathan Yang asks a seemingly simple question: “Is there actually a link between (subjective) social status and wealth?” During the 2010 World Cup,…
…other cognitive competencies, the resources that govern spending may also be menstrual-cycle sensitive, and our data reflect women’s lower self-regulatory resources during the luteal (pre-menstrual) phase.” (HT: Nathan Yang) [%comments]…
…The Forward (article by Josh Nathan-Kazis). While synagogue members pay annual dues, churches rely primarily on voluntary donations from members. The Forward interviewed church and synagogue officials at institutions in…
…in microblogging forums,” the authors write. “In sum, we find that stock microblogs contain valuable information that is not yet fully incorporated in current market indicators.” (HT: Nathan Yang) [%comments]…
…tweet, Feng Chi and Nathan Yang found that geography and party lines play a part too. Yang writes of their new paper: Politicians do not react differently to past successes…
Ordering your significant other to ignore the attractive person at the next table might backfire, according to a new study. Nathan DeWall and Timothy Deckman conducted a series of experiments…
…8.2% in the following month, while portfolios of uninformed trades yield negative abnormal returns. Furthermore, the gains accrue over a short horizon, indicative of time-sensitive insider information. (HT: Nathan Yang)…
Photo: IRRI Images From a pair of Harvard economists, Alberto Alesina and Nathan Nunn, and a UCLA business school professor, Paola Giuliano, comes this working paper (Abstract here and below;…
…an investigative report released Tuesday by Gov. Nathan Deal. In the report, the governor’s special investigators describe an enterprise where unethical — and potentially illegal — behavior pierced every level…
(Photo: Peter Casier) A new working paper (ungated version here) by Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian may have interesting implications for U.S. policy on humanitarian aid. We’ve blogged before about…
(Photo: @dumbstarbucks) By now, pretty much everyone has heard about how Comedy Central star Nathan Fielder opened his personal version of a Starbucks in an L.A. strip mall. Fielder’s “Dumb…
Kidney failure is such a catastrophic (and expensive) disease that Medicare covers treatment for anyone, regardless of age. Since Medicare reimbursement rates are fairly low, the dialysis industry had to…
The state-by-state rollout of legalized weed has given economists a perfect natural experiment to measure its effects. Here’s what we know so far — and don’t know — about the…
In this new addition to the Freakonomics Radio Network, co-hosts Stephen Dubner and Angela Duckworth discuss the relationship between age and happiness. Also, does all creativity come from pain? New…
The public has almost no chance to buy good tickets to the best events. Ticket brokers, meanwhile, make huge profits on the secondary markets. Here’s the story of how this…
There are 7,000 languages spoken on Earth. What are the costs — and benefits — of our modern-day Tower of Babel? (Part 3 of the “Earth 2.0” series.)…
Steve Hilton was the man behind David Cameron’s push to remake British politics. Things didn’t work out so well there. Now he’s trying to launch a new political revolution —…
There are all kinds of civics-class answers to that question. But how true are they? Could it be that we like to read about war, politics, and miscellaneous heartbreak simply…
Dubner and Levitt talk about fixing the post office, putting cameras in the classroom, and wearing hats.
Turkey sex and chicken wings, selling souls and swapping organs, the power of the president and the price of wine: these are a few of our favorite things
Nobel laureate, bestselling author, and groundbreaking psychologist Daniel Kahneman is also a friend and former business partner of Steve’s. In discussing Danny’s new book Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment,…
