What are Millennials' top sources for political news? http://t.co/cdM7eE8Jsp pic.twitter.com/WEvbZxsuzd
— Pew Research Journalism (@pewjournalism) August 12, 2015
Creative destruction in news
14 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, legacy media, media bias
Apparently, some people still buy CDs
13 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: CDs, creative destruction, legacy media
In the last 40 years, there have been huge shifts in how Americans spend money on music
redef.com/original/less-… http://t.co/jumI47aYAn—
Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) August 05, 2015
@WJRosenbergCTU A brief history of rising equality in New Zealand
13 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of media and culture, income redistribution, labour economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: capitalism and freedom, Leftover Left, The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact, top 1%, Twitter left
Bill Rosenberg at the Council of Trade Unions was good enough to tweet a Treasury chart that shows next to no increases in inequality in New Zealand for at least 20 years.
A brief history of inequality-from Treasury paper Fig4. Note Employment Contracts Act,GST,income tax,benefit cuts,WFF http://t.co/y4w3cUsgjD—
Bill Rosenberg (@WJRosenbergCTU) June 27, 2015
Inequality in both market and disposable incomes has been stable for a good 20 years, as the above tweet shows, while inequality in consumption has been falling. To back this interpretation of mine up, coincidentally today Bryan Perry published his annual report on income and inequality under the banner of the Ministry of Social Development.
His report showed that there be no significant increase in New Zealand in at least 20 years.
Each language’s equivalent of "it’s all Greek to me"
13 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: economics of languages, network economics, network goods
Each language's equivalent of "it's all Greek to me".
(Source: bit.ly/1KM8dML ) http://t.co/WmLBWkIqzZ—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 11, 2015
Cost control at Google in two charts
12 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: competition as a discovery procedure, creative destruction, economics of advertising, entrepreneurial alertness, Google, innovation, legacy media, market selection, The meaning of competition
Google's core business explained in two charts buff.ly/1UBysMC http://t.co/V6uRrPVKMk—
Business Insider (@businessinsider) August 12, 2015
12 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, entreprenurial alertness, Google
The climate alarmists need to lift their game on their scaremongering
11 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmism, doomsday prophecies, global warming, scaremongering, voter demographics
Is there a gender gap in the Dunning-Kruger effect?
10 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, economics of media and culture, gender, human capital, labour economics, personnel economics Tags: cognitive psychology, Dunning-Kruger effect, economics of personality traits, reversing gender gap
Great scientists know what they don't know. 1st step to learning. Female economists winning. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial… http://t.co/xcfCvMNU3U—
S Dynarski (@dynarski) July 03, 2015
A map of various Arabic dialects
09 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: Arabic, economics of languages, maps, Middle-East politics
Map detailing the various Arabic dialects. http://t.co/fOhRTsXnTt—
History Facts 247 (@historyfacts247) June 10, 2015
What watch a movie 2-D when you can watch it in 3-D?
08 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: 10-90 lag, consumer sovereignty, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, Hollywood economics, technology diffusion
We were watching some movie trailers last week-end. One of the 3-D movies also mentioned that it was available in 2-D.
I am surprised that there is still a market for movies in 2-D when people have the option for a tiny sum of money to watch it in 3-D. Of course, this market survives therefore it must be efficient and somebody must like watching 2-D movies over the 3-D movie option.
Is also the case that there is considerable difference in the quality of 3-D movies. There must be trade secrets. For example, Peter Jackson’s films in 3-D are excellent. Some 3-D movies sometimes look like they are in 2-D all to frequently. I saw one trailer for a 3-D movie that looked like it was just 2-D with beer goggles on.
I uninstalled Windows 10, only difference was some programs would not work. Was not faster
08 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
The case for organic farming
08 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, environmental economics, health economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: agricultural economics, cranks, green rent seeking, organic farming, quackery
Which countries devote the most land to organic #agriculture? wef.ch/1P42qpv http://t.co/q1YstjyrSu—
World Economic Forum (@wef) August 05, 2015
Chewbacca takes a break
08 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: star wars
The Great Escape: the conquest of childhood leukaemia
08 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: cancer survival rates, child mortality, cranks, infant mortality leukaemia, modern medicine, natural medicine, The Great Escape
Today at the Twin Towers
08 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: New York
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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