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Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory

I would like to call attention to a short video presentation by Nobel economics laureate Daniel Kahneman on the science of happiness which is well worth watching and thinking about.  This video was filmed last month at the TED 2010 conference (held February 9–13 in Long Beach, CA; according to TED’s website, “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to [...]

3 March 2010 at 10:47 - Comments

Assorted Links (10/13/2009)

Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Economics

Parsing the intellectual contributions of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics laureates, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson.

The day after the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics was announced, there are all sorts of interesting commentaries emerging that parse the intellectual contributions of the [...]

13 October 2009 at 10:16 - Comments

Assorted Links (10/7/2009)

Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Economics and the Financial Crisis

The Next Bailout: Commerical Real Estate, by Jeffrey Miron Did the TARP Increase Lending?, by Casey Mulligan

New York Times: “Economic theory casts significant doubt on the claim that public purchases of bank equity would cause banks to lend [...]

7 October 2009 at 07:04 - Comments

Assorted Links (10/1/2009)

Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Economics and the Financial Crisis

Stimulus Spending Doesn’t Work, by Robert Barro and Charles Redlick

Wall Street Journal: “Our new research shows no evidence of a Keynesian ‘multiplier’ effect. There is evidence that tax cuts boost growth.”

Foreign Policy

We can’t afford ambivalent president, by [...]

1 October 2009 at 08:27 - Comments

Assorted Links (9/17/2009)

Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Behavioral Economics

The Devil Wears Fake Prada, by Alex Tabarrok

Energy

Energy ‘Sprawl’ and the Green Economy, by Lamar Alexander

Wall Street Journal: “We’re about to destroy the environment in the name of saving it.”

Financial Crisis

The Stimulus Didn’t Work, by John Cogan, John Taylor and [...]

17 September 2009 at 11:15 - Comments

Assorted Links (9/13/2009)

Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic):

Economics and the Financial Crisis

Talking Business: Lehman Had to Die So Global Finance Could Live, by Joe Nocera

New York Times: “The Lehman Brothers failure caused a panic that spurred Congress to approve the $700 billion bailout.”

Unboxed: Wall Street’s Math Wizards [...]

13 September 2009 at 18:11 - Comments