January 13, 2005

Why Is Love Blind?

Michael Giberson Randall Parker at FuturePundit discusses research that suggests that being in love makes it harder for a person to assess the degree of emotional involvement of other couples. As he puts it: People who were in love and other people who were not in love were asked to view film clips of couples …

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Networks As Regulators And West Coast Jazz

Michael Giberson In ?Regulation by Network,? Amitai Aviram explains how opportunistic behavior is disciplined when markets are networked, and how regulation in networked worlds differs from regulation by private enforcement of contracts or regulation by government. This article came to mind last night as I was reading Dana Gioia?s ?Fallen Western Star,? his account of …

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Networks As Regulators And West Coast Jazz

Michael Giberson In ?Regulation by Network,? Amitai Aviram explains how opportunistic behavior is disciplined when markets are networked, and how regulation in networked worlds differs from regulation by private enforcement of contracts or regulation by government. This article came to mind last night as I was reading Dana Gioia?s ?Fallen Western Star,? his account of …

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