What People Asked the New York Public Library Before Google
08 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture
Marketing research and wireless households
08 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture
As cell-only households rise, @pewresearch will call more cellphones for surveys in 2015 pewrsr.ch/17iYL7d http://t.co/xV7TS70LU7—
PewResearch FactTank (@FactTank) January 08, 2015
Thomas Babington Macaulay on the banality of the latest jihadists
08 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of media and culture, economics of religion, liberalism Tags: economics of oppositional identities, Thomas Babington Macaulay, war on terror
HT: Daniel Hannan, MEP
Students analyse mental health of Seinfeld characters
07 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture, TV shows Tags: Seinfeld
“You have a very diverse group of personality traits that are maladaptive on the individual level,” Tobia told nj.com. “When you get these friends together the dynamic is such that it literally creates a plot: Jerry’s obsessive compulsive traits combined with Kramer’s schizoid traits, with Elaine’s inability to forge meaningful relationships and with George being egocentric.”
Seinfeld’s “neat freak” tendencies are well known. The show’s chief protagonist once refused to a kiss a girl who’d brushed her teeth with a toothbrush that had fallen in the toilet. On another occasion he threw out a belt after it touched a urinal.
Meanwhile, Jerry’s nemesis, the vindictive Newman, is “very sick” according to Tobia.
“Newman’s sense of self, his meaning in life, is to ensure that he frustrates Jerry,
via Students analyse mental health of Seinfeld characters | Stuff.co.nz.
The $245,000 price tag for raising an American child – Vox
07 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of love and marriage, economics of media and culture, labour economics, politics - USA Tags: cost of chidlren, fertility
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Al Capone was taking in about $105,000,000 a year in the 1920s
02 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, politics - USA Tags: Al Capone, black markets, prohibition
100 years of hair and make up
01 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: economics of beauty, economics of identity
A New Year’s celebratory practice where I am holidaying: Where Do Bullets Go When Fired Into The Air?
31 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: health and safety, Philippines
Winter in Siberia, 1960
30 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: Winter in Siberia
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