Showing posts with label economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economics. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Review: Misbehaving - The Making of Behavioral Economics

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Misbehaving is Richard Thaler's memoir of how Behavioral Economics went from being a backwater of economics to becoming mainstream enou...
Thursday, December 03, 2015

Review: Phishing for Phools

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I'm a big fan of Robert J. Shiller, even before he won his Nobel. Phishing for Phools is his book (in collaboration with George Akerlof...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Review: The Fifth Discipline

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The Fifth Discipline is Peter Senge's management book about building learning organizations. I first read it in the 1990s, and recently...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

Exploitation

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Google, Intel and Apple are appealing Lucy Koh's rejection of their settlement about the anti-poaching case. It's very hard to get ...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Review: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century is Thomas Piketty's magnum opus about the future of capitalism and the implications thereof. It is ...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Review: New York Times Web + Tablet Subscription

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After not having a great time on the Kindle subscription to the New York Times , I tried the web + tablet subscription on the $1 trial plan....
Sunday, May 04, 2014

Review: If You Can: How Millenials Can Get Rich Slowly

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If You Can is William Bernstein's financial planning booklet for people starting out in their careers. It is normally $0.99 at the Kind...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Why I can't help PMs, Sales People, or Marketing folks negotiate

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Occasionally, I'll get a sales person, product manager or program manager, or even a marketing person ask me to help negotiate their com...
Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Review: Aggressive Tax Avoidance For Real Estate Investors, 19th Edition

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While I'm not quite an accidental landlord, since we got married we've had a rental property to manage. There are all sorts of issue...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

The Oculus Rift "Sellout"

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Yesterday's announcement of the Oculus Rift acquisition by Facebook has already garnered negative reactions amongst gamers and game de...

First Impressions: Nokia 521 Smartphone

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Microsoft can't seem to do anything right, so when they paired up with Nokia (who can't seem to make a fashionable smart phone) to m...
Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Are you surprised by the success of the game consoles?

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If you read reviews in general interest newspapers or magazines like the New York Times , you should be surprised to learn that the PS4 has...
Saturday, August 03, 2013

Review: Neptune's Brood

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Neptune's Brood is set in the same world as Saturn's Children , but is not a direct sequel in style, tone, or humor. This is a feat...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Review: The Fine Print

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The Fine Print is David Cay Johnston's book about how corporations rip off the American people. The book starts with a great science fi...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Review: Grand Pursuit - The Story of Economic Genius

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I'll admit it. I'm an economics junkie, and enjoy even reading books like Minsky's Stabilizing an Unstable Economy . So I was ex...
Monday, January 16, 2012

Review: The Price of Civilization

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I will admit that I approached The Price of Civilization with a lot of skepticism. As an economist, Sachs was famous for being extremely op...
Sunday, January 09, 2011

The "Tiger Mom" Parenting Controversy

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The blogosphere and quora controversy over Amy Chua's "Tiger Mom" parenting article has reached a fever pitched in the part ...
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Thursday, September 09, 2010

Review: ECONned

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ECONned   was written by the founder of Naked Capitalism , Yves Smith, a well-known economics blogger. I read it every day, and those of you...
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Saturday, December 26, 2009

Review: Stabilizing an Unstable Economy

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The recent financial crisis has been called a Minsky moment by many economists I respect. Minsky's 1984 work, Stabilizing an Unstable Ec...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Tuition and Alumni Giving

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Someone over at friendfeed pointed me at this New York Times article about Harvard students having a new and innovative loan for going to s...
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