Michael Giberson I’ve mentioned Seth Roberts’ Shangri-La diet here before. I’m interested, because I could probably stand to drop 10 or 15 pounds, but I really don’t see myself as a “dieter” or “diet book buyer.” Of course I could try out the ideas based upon publicly available information about the diet, but then I …
Michael Giberson “Scientists tend to ‘desist’ from scientific research upon marriage, just like criminals desist from crime upon marriage.” (From ScienceCareer.org, found via Truck and Barter.)
Michael Giberson Ray Gifford offers a realist’s prognostication on the likely effects of network neutrality: only the lawyers win. Not the end of the world if network neutrality laws pass, not the end of the world if they fail to pass. Only, if network neutrality becomes law, low latency high-speed service will be routed through …
Realist View on Net Neutrality: Only the Lawyers Win Read More »
Michael Giberson Via Virginia Postrel, I see Daniel Drezner is upset with the Bono-voiced World Cup ads running on ESPN. Drezner apparently believes, contrary to implications of the ad, that soccer can’t in fact stop war. I appreciate his sentiment, especially the point urged in his title: Will Bono Please Be Quiet, Please? (As a …
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Michael Giberson Two weeks ago, Lynne mentioned an ad by IBM that had appeared in the Wall Street Journal. They reprinted the ad on the back page of the first section in today’s edition (Tuesday, May 30). Still can’t find the ad online, but here is a picture: The text says: * this outlet talks …
Michael Giberson Newsday reports that some consumers “feel ‘ripped off’ by LIPA’s alt-energy plan.??? Ratepayers who sign up for Green Choice permit LIPA to add an average premium of 1 to 2 cents a kilowatt hour, or $4 to $15 a month, to their bills. LIPA sends that to one of two green-power marketing companies …
Michael Giberson Elsewhere in the econ blog world, Tyler Cowen notes a new paper, Poetry in Economics, by Emory University’s Hugo Mialon. Mialon examines the effect on citation counts of employing rhetorical figures in the titles of economics articles. He finds, among other things, that adding a rhetorical figure to the title of an empirical …
Low-hanging Fruit for Economists Chasing Citation Counts? Read More »
Michael Giberson At the Freakonomics blog, Steven Leavitt picks up on a May 21, 2006, USA Today story headlined Ticketmaster Uses Auctions to Fight Online Scalpers. The story is reported like it is news, but USA Today has been “scooped” on Ticketmaster auctions by about, oh, two and a half years: on September 1, 2003, …
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Michael Giberson Anti-net neutrality campaign Hands Off the Internet wants to show it, too, can be “hip” to the ways of the kids on the internet. To show how “with it” they are, they’ve put together a purposely crudely-drawn animation explaining the dangers of net neutrality. Similarly crude economic reasoning underlies their voice-over. The basic …
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Michael Giberson At Greg Mankiw’s blog he cites a Wall Street Journal article claiming some “funky economics” are happening at the car rental counter, as renters increasingly are choosing smaller, more fuel-efficient cars in the face of higher gasoline prices. As Mankiw points out, there’s nothing funky going on, Gas and Guzzlers are Complements.
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