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
There is an economic literature on feuds and duelling
07 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, competition as a discovery procedure, duals, feuds, game theory, moral hazard, screening, signalling
How they resolved spats before Twitter existed
thepoke.co.uk/2015/07/26/res… http://t.co/a04CTYT2aX—
The Poke (@ThePoke) July 27, 2015
Good to see that Robert Downey Jr is both alive and doing very well
06 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics, movies Tags: Robert Downey Jr
There are young New Zealanders who say they don’t use the Internet! Really?
06 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: creative destruction, digital media, Digital poverty
https://twitter.com/conradhackett/status/628835585038258177/photo/1
Internet use, by age (U.S.)
65+ : 58%
50-64: 81%
30-49: 93%
18-29: 96%pewinternet.org/2015/06/26/ame… http://t.co/fMRlE1s6KH—
Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) August 04, 2015
An internal inconsistency in certain leading conspiracy theories
05 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of media and culture, health economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: antiscience left, climate alarmism, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists, GMOs, political psychology
Must we always tread on eggshells?
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of media and culture, liberalism Tags: free speech, meddlesome preferences, moral panic, nanny state, political correctness, trigger warnings
Trigger Warning: Those easily offended could be offended by this message. http://t.co/69NRjjeK7y—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) July 28, 2015
The economics of trophy hunting
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, law and economics, property rights Tags: Africa, antimarket bias, conservation, economics of conservation, endangered species, expressive voting, offsetting behaviour, rational irrationality, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, uninte
Kerry Packer in full flight before a parliamentary committee
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, Public Choice Tags: Kerry Packer
The Paul Berry biography of Kerry Packer is a brilliant read. A hundred hilarious stories to tell at a party and that’s just about Kerry Packer’s father, Sir Frank Packer.
An elephant surfing?
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: entrepreneurial alertness
Google Street View coverage as of 14 July 2015
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: cities, creative destruction
Google Street View coverage as of 14 July 2015. #dataviz
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Randy Olson (@randal_olson) July 29, 2015
The popularity of the name Britney
02 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: names
The fates of two islands under constant threat from a neighbouring military colossus
01 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: anticapitalist mentality, antimarket bias, capitalism and freedom, China, Cuba, expressive voting, Hong Kong, Leftover Left, public intellectuals, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, Twitter left
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