Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Market Studies

 Market Studies is an economics-adjacent interdisciplinary look at markets from the points of view of sociology, marketing, organizational studies and related fields.  Here's a big new book  which I've barely begun to skim. A good place for market designers to look first might be Chapter 2 - Market Engineering: A New Problem for Market Studies?

Market Studies: Mapping, Theorizing and Impacting Market Action  Edited by Susi Geiger, University College Dublin, Katy Mason, Lancaster University, Neil Pollock, University of Edinburgh, Philip Roscoe, University of St Andrews, Scotland, Annmarie Ryan, University of Limerick, Stefan Schwarzkopf, Copenhagen Business School, Pascale Trompette, Université de Grenoble, Cambridge University Press, November 2024, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009413961 

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Monday, December 9, 2024

Converting to Judaism in the Wake of October 7th, by Jeannie Suk Gersen in the New Yorker

 I was moved by this New Yorker article by Harvard law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen

Converting to Judaism in the Wake of October 7th
For decades, I maintained a status quo of living like a Jew without being one. When I finally pursued conversion, I discovered that I was part of a larger movement born of crisis.  By Jeannie Suk Gersen

"The Talmud says that a person who comes to a court to convert is to be questioned as to his motivation and asked, “Don’t you know that the Jewish people at the present time are anguished, suppressed, despised, and harassed, and hardships are frequently visited upon them?”

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Sunday, December 8, 2024

The market for hitmen is thin

 The NYT has the story (but it isn't much of a story, the 'experts' don't know much...)

Was Brian Thompson’s Killer a Hit Man? Unlikely, Experts Say.
The murder of Brian Thompson did not appear to have been committed by a coldly calculating professional, according to people who study criminal behavior.   By Annie Correal

"None of this looks like the work of a professional, the experts said. (Assassinations occur but are usually ordered by governments or criminal groups like drug cartels, and rarely leave behind much evidence, they said.)"

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