wie immer

Increasingly, restaurants are recording whether you are a regular, a first-timer, someone who lives close by or a friend of the owner or m...

monkey biz

A while back I read a post by Sarah Manguso on the FSG blog: How to Have a Career: Advice to Young Writers.  There were points that could h...

MS Wha-

He had good reason to fret. Signs that Microsoft would be missing the boat in the next decade were already emerging. That very moment at M...

go away

David Graeber: An anthropologist who studied people in central Nigeria showed us how we were completely clueless. She doesn’t really spea...

calculated risks

Fortunately, when you purchase a low-powered car from Young Marmalade, the free installation of a black box can cut your insurance premium...

ultimi Australi

3) Related: No tipping . Yes, some people expect and offer tips in Australia, but that's the exception rather than the degrading-to-al...

The guiding principle of Graeber's sweeping global history is that debt must not remain the exclusive property of economic historians, ...

Trying to answer some questions, including one about cuts in review sections in print media. I check in on some blogs and find this on Rajiv...

God is good

The years go by.  One goes on a daily basis to the supermarket.  One comes home with a one cent coin, a two cent coin; one rarely remembers ...

Noam Lupu and Jonas Pontussen (PDF) have a piece on the relationship between inequality and distribution in the new American Political Scie...

that clinking clanking sound

Ownership of your Egg Card account 4627XXXXXXXX3061 has been transferred to Barclays Bank PLC. Dear Dr Dewitt As you may be aware, on 1 Ma...

black swans

Andrew Gelman revisits his review of Taleb's The Black Swan. And then there are parts of the review that make me really uncomfortable. ...

Tabarrok on Arrow

Arrow showed that when a group chooses, there are no underlying preferences to uncover--not even in theory. In one sense , the theorem is tr...

Buffettgate

Already a cult text among gold enthusiasts and inflation phobes (old copies of the original hardback were until recently trading at up to £1...

Granger causality is a standard statistical technique for determining whether one time series is useful in forecasting another. It is import...

There is much more of interest here . I would describe this as a major, still uninternalized lesson of the recent crisis, with its roller c...

Courtesy MR, Keith Hennessey on The Roles of the President's White House economic advisors . Tyler Cowen is right to say: to excerpt wo...

In 1994 Ginsberg sold his archives to Stanford University for a million dollars, but after all the deductions for the auction house, his age...

The most daunting real-world problem Roth has solved so far: New York City's high school match, which he tackled in 2003. While many Ame...

People who don’t do statistics are usually drawn to individual stories or scenarios. I look for scenarios which are informative about risks ...