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Sunday, September 30, 2007

Assorted

Six Fingers of Blame in the Mortgage Mess

Can We Turn Off Our Emotions When Investing?

The Perils of Financial Historicism

Bugged by Excel

Divorced From Reality

Bleakonomics

Redoing Venn diagrams as readable graphs?

Creative Destruction vs. the New Industrial State
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My Blog List

  • Crooked Timber
    WaPo: Surveying the flaming wreckage - A DC-based friend wrote today to say that he had finally abandoned the Washington Post, a paper he used to really like. The final straw was this piece alle...
    2 hours ago
  • Bits
    Google Voice Goes Mobile - Google Voice is now easier to use in some mobile phones with a new application available on BlackBerry and Android devices.
    2 hours ago
  • The Caucus
    Obama Throws a Wobbly First Pitch - President Obama threw out the first pitch at baseball's All-Star Game on Tuesday night.
    5 hours ago
  • The Beacon
    Bernie Madoff Was Only a Petty Crook Compared with Uncle Sam - Bernard Madoff was in the news again today. I quote here from a CNBC report, adding my own commentary to put the report into perspective. Disgraced financi...
    5 hours ago
  • Lifehacker
    Build a DIY Portable Air Conditioner [Beat The Heat] - We've shown you how to make an air conditioner (even for as low as $30), but what if you wanted something you can put in your car and take with you? Inst...
    6 hours ago
  • WSJ.com: Law Blog - WSJ.com
    Is Sotomayor Overly Aggressive on the Bench or Just One of the Guys? - Republican Senator Lindsey Graham "likes" Sotomayor despite that she's a terror to other lawyers.
    8 hours ago
  • The Lede
    Q. and A. on the War in Afghanistan - This week on The Lede, New York Times correspondent Richard A. Oppel Jr. will be answering questions from readers about the war in Afghanistan.
    8 hours ago
  • Gene Expression
    Cognition & Culture - In case you don't know, the Cognition & Culture group blog is of some interest. One of the contributors is Dan Sperber, who I interviewed a few years ago. ...
    8 hours ago
  • How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic
    Are Roadside Memorials a Hazard? - This is an evergreen issue in highway safety, one that the New York Times has recently opened for debate. I brought up the issue recently after a trip to M...
    8 hours ago
  • FinanceProfessor.com
    What'll it be? Inflation or deflation? Or both? - Lost in the fear of inflation that has gripped many for months, is the reverse and almost silent bull market killer, deflation. In recent days however we ha...
    8 hours ago
  • Campaign for the American Reader
    What is Lois Lowry reading? - The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Lois Lowry, author of over 30 books for children, including the Newbery Award-winning Number the Stars (199...
    8 hours ago
  • Hitwise Intelligence - Bill Tancer - US
    MySpace - Returning to Entertainment? - I was living vicariously through WSJ's Julia Angwin's Mogul-fest tweets last week (ironically throughout the week she tweeted that several moguls didn't see ...
    9 hours ago
  • Well
    Mapping Workouts With iPhone GPS - Put your iPhone to work when you work out, using GPS apps that track your runs.
    9 hours ago
  • FP Passport - blogging on global news, politics, economics, and ideas
    Tina Brown's bizarre defense of Hillary Clinton - My fellow FP blogger David Rothkopf already noted the weirdly sexist overtones in Tina Brown's *Daily Beast* piece referring to Hillary Clinton as Barack...
    9 hours ago
  • Angry Bear
    House Tri-Committee Health Care Bill w/CBO Prelim Analysis - by Bruce Webb House Education and Labor:: America's Affordable Health Choices Act all links from the Committee web page. Summary Bill Text (1.7 MB PDF) ...
    10 hours ago
  • 2 Blowhards
    Rock is ... Forever? - Donald Pittenger writes: Dear Blowhards -- I'll readily admit that popular music had generally become pretty slow, sugary and, well, awful by 1954 when Bil...
    10 hours ago
  • Freakonomics
    Give Me Your Odd Pairs - I love to collect examples of bizarre pairs of goods that sellers or buyers apparently believe are complements or substitutes.
    11 hours ago
  • macroblog
    A funny thing happened update - More than a week has passed since the Regulation D changes went into effect, and it appears that the changes are having a noticeable, if not dramatic, impact...
    11 hours ago
  • Healthcare Economist
    Do for-profit hospitals reduce safety net services? - Social safety net services are necessary, but often unprofitable for hospitals. Is the expansion of HMOs and for-profit hospitals jeopardizing these safety...
    11 hours ago
  • Paper Cuts
    A Literary Garage Sale - Looking for a nice literary artifact? Edith Wharton's letters - a packet sold at auction for more than $180,000 last month - may be out of reach, but colle...
    12 hours ago
  • Mind Hacks
    Is brain death, death? - The New Atlantis magazine has an in-depth article discussing the difficulty in defining death and why arguments about the brain have become central to unders...
    12 hours ago
  • Peter Levine
    investing in democracy: the case of CARE - Investing in Democracy is Carmen Sirianni's extremely important book about how governments at all levels can help citizens and communities to collaborate in ...
    13 hours ago
  • murketing
    Linkpile - Interesting MJ sales spike detail:: “Fans are choosing CDs over digital albums,” says LA Times. Makes sense. Dude Craft: Here’s Value: About a shoe-maker’s...
    15 hours ago
  • Built on Facts
    Moon Landing Conspiracy Debunking, pt. 10^9. - A few days ago we briefly mentioned the chemtrail conspiracy theory in the context of water vapor in the atmosphere. Chemtrails are one of those conspira...
    15 hours ago
  • Cafe Hayek
    Barack Obama, Supply-Sider (by Don Boudreaux) - Here's a letter that I sent recently to the Washington Post: Seeking to encourage African governments to embrace institutions that promote economic growth, P...
    16 hours ago
  • The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog
    Delaware’s Art of Judging - (Editor’s Note: This post comes to us from Katrina Dewey, CEO & Publisher, Lawdragon, Inc.) Richard Posner should have been a U.S. Supreme Court justice. I...
    17 hours ago
  • Stumbling and Mumbling
    Age & productivity - The CBI has said it is disappointed by the government’s apparent decision to allow workers to continue working past the age of 65. Some recent research, howe...
    21 hours ago
  • The Mindjet Blog
    Map Parts for MindManager Mac - Yesterday, I shared how to create a Map Part in MindManager 8 for Windows. As Catherine pointed out, I failed to explain what a map part is. Here goes: Map...
    21 hours ago
  • New America Blogs - New Voices, Innovative Ideas, Post-Partisan Policy
    A Drive By Shot at Prop 13 - Your blogger is all for overturning Prop 13, particularly the piece that required a two-thirds vote of the legislature to raise taxes. But Prop 13 is stu...
    1 day ago
  • The American Prospect Articles
    Meet the Cast of the Sotomayor Hearings - Ready for a week of Senate questioning? Here is your guide to the major players of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings.
    1 day ago
  • Stanley Fish - Think Again
    Because of Race: Ricci v. DeStefano - Ricci v. DeStefano shows that the search for a position that avoids race-consciousness will never succeed.
    1 day ago
  • Management Blog
    Ideas from under your nose - Managers dream of discovering the new new thing. Innovation is on every business leader’s lips. “We plan to launch more new products than at any time in ou...
    1 day ago
  • Oxonomics
    BIS Conference Papers - A couple of interesting looking papers on the financial crisis and the future of macroeconomics were presented at the 8th Bank of International Settlements c...
    1 day ago
  • Brad Setser: Follow the Money
    Will the Chinese Keep Saving? - This is Rachel Ziemba of RGE Monitor where this post also appears. In a recent post, Jeffrey Frankel asks will the U.S. Keep Saving? noting that despite th...
    1 day ago
  • John Battelle's Searchblog
    Twitter Grows Again - The growth is back, impressive but slower than before, but it's probably quite a relief over at Twitter HQ to see no continuation of the trend from last mo...
    1 day ago
  • The Frontal Cortex
    The Greatest Show on Earth - In the latest edition of Publisher's Weekly, I have a short review of The Greatest Show on Earth, the forthcoming book from Richard Dawkins: Richard Dawk...
    1 day ago
  • John Quiggin
    Monday Message Board - Its time once again for Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. As usual, civilised discussion and no coarse language.
    1 day ago
  • International Political Economy Zone
    Will Idiotic US Laws Make Asia Poker's Epicenter? - The United States, that erstwhile promoter of free trade, has long been criticized by the international community for its senseless and unwarranted clampdo...
    2 days ago
  • The Becker-Posner Blog
    Legislation on Clean Energy-Becker - In late June the House of Representatives approved The American Clean Energy and Security Act. If the Senate approves a similar version, this would constitut...
    2 days ago
  • Geary Behaviour Centre
    Neuroeconomics survey - NEUROECONOMICS - ACTUAL DIRECTIONS IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS Popescu, Bondrea & Constantinescu Our article offers a survey of behavioral economics and in...
    2 days ago
  • Nicholas D. Kristof
    Your Comments on Charity: Water - My Sunday column is focused on one man's efforts to build a new aid group, charity: water, but more broadly it's about how we can connect those who want to...
    3 days ago
  • Game Theorist
    BBC World Service - You know, as an economist and especially one who is researching and thinking about serious public policy constantly, to be interviewed by the BBC World Ser...
    5 days ago
  • Bluematter.
    Friday Special 112 - Make my mood with further People Sayings
    5 days ago
  • Trade Diversion
    “The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression: Who Succumbed and Why?” - Barry Eichengreen and Doug Irwin look at the drivers of Depression-era protectionism: The Great Depression was marked by protectionist trade policies and t...
    5 days ago
  • Aplia Econ Blog: News for Economics Students
    Income and Substitution Effects Explain Changes in Burrito Consumption - I took many economics courses, and yet it wasn’t until I experienced a change in my own personal finances that I really understood the nature of the income...
    6 days ago
  • The Belgravia Dispatch
    Robert Strange McNamara - It was Henry Ford II who reportedly said of Robert McNamara: "In our business, we are lucky if we make the right decision 51% of the time. What I have notice...
    1 week ago
  • MTEF is The Bayesian Heresy
    Assorted - From Poverty to Prosperity Watch The Lord is my central banker, I shall not want… Plastic fantastic Global Development Finance 2009: Charting a Global Re...
    3 weeks ago
  • Ä°yigün Blog
    The Saga of the Secular Elite - If you read the New York Times and take it seriously, you might think that I am referring to the political situation in Turkey. Well, guess again.And if yo...
    5 weeks ago
  • Allison Arieff
    Rethinking the Mall - At a convention for shopping mall designers and developers, a glimpse of the future and, unfortunately, the past.
    1 month ago
  • Schlossplatz³ Blog
    Barack Obama: The First 100 Days - Barack Obama is approaching the end of his first 100 days in office as the United States’ 44th President. Traditionally viewed by the media as the first in...
    2 months ago
  • tomgpalmer.com
    Protectionism and the Great Depression: Please Spread the Word! -
    3 months ago
  • FT.com | Gadget Guru
    Gadget guru on the move - Paul Taylor continues to answer your gadgetry questions. Visit his updated Gadget guru page to see questions and answers on the latest gizmos, software an...
    3 months ago
  • Harry Clarke
    New site - I have a new site at *WordPress*: http://www.harryrclarke.com/ *Readers please adjust your browser settings. * ** It is goodbye *Blogger* for at least a wh...
    3 months ago
  • Economics and...
    Satan and the G-16: A Sacrilegious Rant and a (Modest?) Proposal - It appears now that the G-20 intend to make their compromise with the devil. That’s pretty much inevitable, since the devil is one of them. When I say the ...
    4 months ago
  • The Political Economist
    For we are young and free? - As I've been spending this Australia Day long weekend writing about the paternalist nanny state in health policy, I have been struck by the multiplicity of...
    5 months ago
  • Creative Capitalism
    Re-opening for business (in one form or another) - by Conor Clarke Hi again, and sorry for the publishing hiatus. The Creative Capitalism book is now done. It comes out December 2 -- "just in time for the hol...
    8 months ago
  • Econ Academics Blog
    Now also with non-English blogs - Now that I have figured out how to make the welcome message stick at the top, I will also post from time to time about additions. For the moment, I have ad...
    10 months ago
  • MathTrek
    The Noisy Game of Baseball - By Julie J. Rehmeyer Halfway through the 2005 baseball season, John Olerud was having a great year with the Boston Red Sox. His batting average was .405, far...
    1 year ago
 
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