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| Url: | http://economics.com.au |
| Author(s): | Joshua Gans |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | economics, strategy |
| Description: | Economics, strategy, technology and related matters. |
| Ratings |  (6 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 37 Followers |
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Scroogenomics
| My last segment for the year on ABC Radio National’s Life Matters program was talking about Joel Waldfogel’s work on the deadweight cost of Christmas (aka Scroogenomics). The podcast should be here...more |
2009-12-16
Back online
| Given the amount of activity that takes place on this blog I guess it may surprise you to learn that I was actually away. Indeed, this has been my longest break from blogging in almost four years w...more |
2009-12-15
Merit Pay Effects
| For the most part, economics analyses of merit pay programs (with either individual or group incentives) have tended to find positive effects. So it’s interesting to see a new study by Pedro Martin...more |
2009-12-15
Paul Samuelson
| As an econ-blogger, I’d be remiss not to mention the passing this week of one of the greats of the profession, Paul (“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws if I can write its economics textbooks”...more |
2009-12-15
Too big to fail
| As soon as Barnaby Joyce was given the finance portfolio in the shadow cabinet he got egg on his face by thinking aloud about defaults by the US Government and Australian state governments. Senato...more |
2009-12-14
Happiness, Love, Money, and Sex
| My AFR op-ed today discusses two happiness papers by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers. Full text over the fold. Yes, You Can Buy Happiness, Australian Financial Review, 15 December 2009Wh...more |
2009-12-14
Look at the changes, not at the levels
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A few people have asked me recently for my view on The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, which is apparently having some impact in policy circles. John Kay’s view in the FT comes ...more |
2009-12-14
Some Observations from India
| I am in Mumbai visiting with my in-laws. Visiting Mumbai is always eye-opening. The city’s population is probably around two-thirds of the total population of Australia. And as an Australian ...more |
2009-12-12
Part of QR to be re-nationalised!
| Well – not quite. But there is an interesting article in The Australian which notes that coal miners may want buy the Queensland-government-owned coal mine operations of QR and then lease th...more |
2009-12-11
The Kopenhagen circus.
| Kopenhagen is currently witnessing two comic relief shows. One is regularly seen in the amusement area known as Tivoli, and the other is the climate change conference. The core element of pure humo...more |
2009-12-10
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