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Economics in Wired: Two Articles Worth Reading
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009I came across two recent articles in Wired that I found really interesting. Here’s a brief overview and commentary:
Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It’s Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity
It costs Netflix about a nickel to stream a 2 hour movie to your PC. Wired editor Chris Anderson argues that data storage and […]
Social Capital, Entrepreneurship and CB Radios?
Sunday, March 9th, 2008I’m in a group in my economics department that discusses microeconomics literature and research ideas. During our last meeting we discussed “Does Social Capital Promote Industrialization? Evidence From a Rapid Industrialization” by Edward Miguel, Paul Gertler and David Levine. This 2005 paper used evidence from Indonesia to dispute an earlier conclusion by Putnam […]
Studying Computational Microeconomics?
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007If you are in at least the second year of a PhD program and are doing research in the area of online markets, prediction markets, sponsored search auctions, or query incentive networks, consider applying for a fellowship from Yahoo! Fellowship winners are awarded tuition and fees for 2 years and 1,000 dollars for […]