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Books I Liked

The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist

The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics

Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters

Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Social Capital, Entrepreneurship and CB Radios?

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

I’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, 2007

If 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 […]