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One of the Reasons Supply-Side Economics Does Not Make Sense To Me1 comment

mschonholz wrote 1 month ago: In his column in the Sunday NYTimes, former GW Bush economic advisor and current Harvard Economics P … more →

Tags: taxes, Tax rates, Health Care, Conservatives, Republicans, NYTimes, pelosi, mankiw, New York Times

Brain Research on the Margins

Michael wrote 4 months ago: One of the most valuable insights of economics, and one of the oldest, is the idea that we value goo … more →

Tags: fMRI, Behavioral Economics, neuroeconomics, The journal of neuroscience, Raymond Dolan, Alex Pine, Dorsal Striatum

Bearings. Please.

Kevin wrote 4 months ago: I started today checking out the latest at the Marginal Utility, “Fear of Sharing.” One … more →

Tags: modern life is rubbish, facebook, Luddism, twitter

The Database of Self Redux

Kevin wrote 4 months ago: Came across this post from the Marginal Utility again. Still seems relevant…but anything dealing wit … more →

Tags: modern life is rubbish, Modern Life

It's Not Luddism, Silly Rabbit

Kevin wrote 4 months ago: Came across a Marginal Utility post that I couldn’t agree with more: Going Analog. And it dove … more →

Tags: Music, Modern Life, Luddism, Analog, Vinyl, iPod, Hawkwind, Listening

Hoppe on Praxeology: The Austrian Method (Video)

Editors wrote 4 months ago: UNLV Professor Emeritus of Economics Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s lecture at Mises University 2009 … more →

Tags: Political Science, anarchism, libertarian, Market Anarchism, Anti-Statism, capitalism, Philosophy, Economics, Mises

Personally, I Think Senators Should Be Wearing Breeches And Powdered Wigs

aroundthesphere wrote 4 months ago: Paula Marantz Cohen, who makes it to the NYT Ideas blog: When did the immodest bathing suit come int … more →

Tags: Feminism, Fashion, New York Times, conor friedersdorf, Patrick Appel, Paula Marantz Cohen, Rob Horning

Pricing A Service With Limited Customer Lifetime

Rags Srinivasan wrote 6 months ago: Match.com is running a promotion for its service, “If you do not find your special someone in … more →

Tags: Pricing, Operations, Customer Margin, subscription pricing, match-com

The St. Petersburg Paradox: Cramer-Bernoulli Resolution

randomactsofmath wrote 8 months ago: In my previous post, I referred to solutions of the St. Petersburg paradox. A more appropriate term … more →

Tags: Probability, Paradox, expected utility

Does Length Matter in Online Video?4 comments

mediatide wrote 10 months ago: For the past three weeks my research colleague, Bill Sledzik, and I, have been posting segments of o … more →

Tags: Andy Curran, Bill Sledzik, Brian Connolly, Ohio University, Richard Vedder, Sledzik-Curran Social Media Project, Social Media, strumpette, Video Production

About Possessions1 comment

thebiga wrote 1 year ago: I have learned that the things you are dying to get one day would fall to the level where u wudnt gi … more →

Tags: Theories etc, law of diminishing returns, diminishing returns, Diminishing Marginal Utility

On region lockouts

andyllc wrote 1 year ago: I and my brother have owned an Xbox 360 for almost two years now and up until today we’ve had … more →

Tags: Annoyance, Economics, Protectionism, Regions

The sting of poverty: psychologically pricey

shadowphenyx wrote 1 year ago: The more poor you get the less you want to deal with it.  I liken it to the same as digging yourself … more →

Tags: Society, Economics, ethics, Policy and Law, Psychology, Policy, poverty, Work, bee sting

Deriving the Expectation-Variance Model3 comments

brainrack wrote 1 year ago: Last week I did some work trying to make mathematical sense of the Precautionary Principle.  For bet … more →

Tags: off-topic, investment-value, expectation variance

Brain science and microeconomics

joemondello wrote 2 years ago: Neurally imaged: people with little are better at finding ways of getting more than people with a lo … more →

Tags: Staffan Linder


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