Organic farming is a rebranding of pre-industrial revolution agriculture
09 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, health economics, technological progress Tags: agricultural economics, consumer fraud, industrial revolution, organic farming, quackery, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
Organic farms use a lot of pesticides
09 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, environmentalism Tags: agricultural economics, organic farming
Product disclosure by medical quacks
07 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: alternative lifestyles, antiscience left, natural medicine, Quacks
China’s languages mapped
06 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture Tags: China, economics of language
Palm Reading explained
05 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: Palm Reading, quackery
A lot of people look up their health on their smartphones, suspiciously so
04 May 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of information, economics of media and culture Tags: marketing research, response bias, statistical bias, survey bias
When I studied marketing research as a undergraduate, I studied television watching habits. None of the people we interviewed would admit watching the most popular programs including the soapies. Seeing us in our bright red University of Tasmania blazers at Salamanca Place in Hobart, they all said they watched the news and documentaries. That taught me a bit about response bias in marketing that stays with me to this day.
Evolution explained
04 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture Tags: conjecture and refutation, DNA evolution, evolution
Creative destruction in advertising revenue
04 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, economics of advertising, entrepreneurial alertness, Google, legacy media, markets selection, The meaning of competition
The University of the Internet summed up
03 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, environmental economics Tags: conjecture and refutation, information overload, infotopia
The science news cycle
02 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture Tags: conjecture and refutation, conspiracy theories, infotainment, infotopia, media buyers
The role of entrepreneurial alertness in sifting out quackery
30 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, health economics Tags: charlatans, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, market selection, quackery
Most accurate attack ad ever from 1933
29 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
Prescient 1932 Hindenburg campaign poster showing Commies as Moscow stooges & Nazis as aspiring mass murderers. Yup. http://t.co/5IIYsaYwDy—
Mark Tooley (@markdtooley) April 28, 2015
Persuasive power of quoting a number
29 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of information Tags: cognitive biases, cognitive psychology, data mining, economics of persuasion, evidence-based policy
Politicians & statistics. My proposal in today's @FT : ft.com/cms/s/0/dcf46a… http://t.co/HYbV4V2ps2—
Jonathan Portes (@jdportes) January 26, 2015
Another pointless warning sign
27 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information Tags: warning signs
Further evidence of the Anti-Science Left
27 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmentalism Tags: advocacy bias, Anti-Science left, anti-vaccination movement, expressive voting, motivated reasoning, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
The right of the political spectrum is less likely to accept scientific conclusions if they involve excessive regulation of the economy. The anti-vaccination infestation of left-wing thinking shows that they are not immune to magical thinking and therefore should not be so smug.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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