Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Market for bodyguards

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A big cost of having full time bodyguards is overtime pay, particularly for those who travel a lot, or have an active nightlife. So, in an e...
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Monday, June 1, 2009

Market for poets

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The market for poets is of course not the same as the market for poetry, and a recent NY Times article looks at how poets fit into academia,...
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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Chicago parking: private metering, public/private enforcement

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The City of Chicago recently sold the right to manage its parking meters for the next 75 years to a private company, for a payment of $1.15 ...
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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Harvard's "Z-list," waitlist admission with a difference

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Even Harvard gives favorable attention to legacies (children of alums), you are no doubt shocked to learn. But, right around this time of ye...
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Legacy admissions in public schools

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California leads the way again: here's some school choice news from LA. 'Legacy' admissions OK'd in public grade schools, Ca...
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Friday, May 29, 2009

Opposite of repugnance: Protected transactions

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I've been thinking lately about transactions that are the opposite of repugnant , i.e. transactions that, as a society, we often seek to...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Airport slot auctions in the Washington Post

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Today's Washington Post has an editorial regretting the obstacles thrown up to auctioning airport slots, and in favor of good market de...

Miscellaneous repugnant transactions

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Germany to ban paintball "The German government is planning to ban paintball and laser shooting games in reaction to the recent schoo...

Signaling for attention: email version

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Seriosity.com thinks it has a solution to email overload. They offer firms a signaling service based on an artificial currency ("serios...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Where did all the MD license plates go?

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When I was a child, it was commonplace to see cars with license plates indicating that the car belonged to a medical doctor. Where did they ...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Hal Varian on ad auctions

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Muthu Muthukrishnan at Google in NY has a nice post about Hal Varian , Google's chief economist and a pioneer of the economics of the i...
Monday, May 25, 2009

Waiting lists and late college applications

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Students who may be waiting to see if they will be offered positions from some colleges' waiting lists should also be aware that other c...
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David Warsh on Auctions and Politics

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David Warsh, the Boston-based economic journalist whose weekly internet column Economic Principals talks about economics and economists, wri...
Sunday, May 24, 2009

Market for textbooks

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The Washington Post has a story on the educational software company Aplia , founded by Paul Romer : An Economist, an Academic Puzzle and a L...
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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Markets for hunting

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In New England, battles about repugnant transactions often pit social liberals against social conservatives, with the liberals trying to mak...
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Friday, May 22, 2009

More on open source software

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I recently wrote about the new take on Open source software proposed by Michael Schwarz and Yuri Takhteyev. Now, while reading David Pennoc...

Second life for Second Life?

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One of the most interesting uses of the internet as a place to work and play and buy and sell and advertise was explored by Second Life , a...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

Delaying kindergarten entry

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The Telegraph discusses the problem of "summer born children," who would be younger than their kindergarten peers if enrolled acco...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

College admissions essays: who writes them, and who reads them?

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In England, as in the U.S., college applications require an essay. In England, as in the U.S., some students hire professional help, some pl...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

University admissions in the UK

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I've been trying to understand the semi-centralized application process for British universities, run by an organization called UCAS (U...