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Hot Economists

29-Apr-09

Including your text book author. From The Daily Beast. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fblog.arnavsheth.net%2F2009%2F04%2F29%2Fhot-economists%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Hot+Economists’; addthis_pub = ”;

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The Statistics of Disagreeability Within the Econoblogosphere

01-Apr-09

(via MR) Leigh Caldwell at Knowing and Making does an ad hoc analysis of the how disagreeable economists really are, by examining words and trends in blog-postings, their titles and their comments from the econoblogosphere. He looks at four different categories: Articles whose title contains the words “is right”, “agree” or “genius” Articles whose title [...]

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April Fool’s Google-Style

01-Apr-09

Some of you may have noticed Google’s new feature – Gmail Autopilot(TM): As more and more everyday communication takes place over email, lots of people have complained about how hard it is to read and respond to every message. This is because they actually read and respond to all their messages. [link] Amazing. Simply Amazing. [...]

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F-Double-Prime is Finally Greater Than Zero?

17-Mar-09

In spite of yesterday‘s news that the industrial production and capacity utilization took a nosedive, there seems to be a general feeling that things may have bottomed out, and it might be a turning point. In today’s NYT: An unexpected rise in housing starts and a more moderate increase in wholesale prices offered some brighter [...]

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Pathetic

19-Apr-08

Stephen Hadley, the National Security Adviser, was on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Apparently, he doesn’t know the difference between Nepal and Tibet. Discussing how Bush has “no reason not to go” to this summer’s Olympic games in Beijing and how boycotting them would be wrong, Hadley discussed the outcry over Tibet and the [...]

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Hello, Can I Have Your Baby For You?

10-Mar-08

If you’re not up to reproducing (or, in the case of same-sex couples, if you can’t): Fear not. You can – for the low, low price of $25,000 – buy a child that was born from a surrogate mother through a clinic in India that will take care of all your birthing needs. And this [...]

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A Nice Graph

26-Feb-08

Friday’s New York Times has a nice graph that describes movies in terms of their box office receipts and longevity. The height is a measure of weekly box office receipts, and the width is in time. So the movie which people continued to watch even after the first few weeks, will exist on the chart [...]

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Free Markets and The Movies

26-Feb-08

InTrade is a website that allows the markets to “trade” on the outcomes of everything ranging from Oscar-winners, to election winners to the weather. Prices for the outcomes range from 0 to 100, with the price going to 0 if the outcome never occurs, and the price going to a 100 if the outcome occurs. [...]

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When Buddha Hits Enlightenment, Sell!

26-Feb-08

Dow Jones and an India-based company Dharma Investments have created a new financial index that is going to be based on the dharmic principles of Buddhism and Hinduism. No, that does not mean that you can invest in the stock of gods, but the index will consist of companies that abide by the principles of [...]

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