239 posts tagged Freakonomics
SubscribeBruce Schneier's opinion on everything
http://www.hackaday.com/ 2008/ 05/ 14/ bruce-schneiers-opinion-on-everything/-
Bruce Schneier's opinion on everything
http://www.hackaday.com/ 2008/ 05/ 14/ bruce-schneiers-opinion-on-everything/Filed under: news Honestly, we were originally sent this Q&A with famed cryptographer [Bruce Schneier] as a restaurant recommendation (112 Eatery, Minneapolis). Posted last fall on NYTimes' Freakonomics blog it covers [Bruce]'s opinion on nearly everything.
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Donations: Commentary: How true is your altruism?
http://burmaemergency.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 14/ donations-commentary-how-true…Interesting piece in the NYT Freakonomics blog by Stephen J. Dubner about donations after natural disasters. Notes that international donations for Myanmar cyclone relief are still quite low– and that media coverage, not surprisingly, causes big jumps in the amount of money raised.
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Returning purity to sports
http://blog.kevinmarkham.com/ 2008/ 05/ returning-purity-to-sports.htmlThe Doping Dilemma (Scientific American) How We Would Fight Steroids If We Really Meant It (Freakonomics Blog) Two articles that attempt to address the question of how to combat doping (the use of performance-enhancing drugs) in sports.
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Is Chrysler's $2.99 Gas Worth It?
http://www.onlinesavingsblog.com/ 2008/ 05/ 13/ is-chryslers-299-gas-worth-it/Have you seen Chrysler's ads for 3 years of $2.99 gas when you purchase a new car? Autoblog has the details: With gas prices rapidly approaching and exceeding $4 a gallon across the nation, Chrysler is offering up a deal that just might make people who are averse to the looks of cars like the Chrysler Sebring and Jeep Compass think twice.
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Altruism
http://bloggingjenny.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 13/ altruism/On my walk back to the hotel this afternoon, I stopped outside the hotel for a smoke. While I was there, I was approached by a woman. She told me that her and her alcoholic boyfriend (husband?) had gotten into a fight and he had left her stranded in the city. She needed to get home to her two
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Two from Freakonomics Blog
http://blog.wieck.com/ 2008/ 05/ two-from-freakonomics-blog/Another Pay-as-You-Wish Success Story with tips and caveats about this type of tale, and this BBC piece, via this LIST-onomics post. Pope Benedict XVI will send religious text messages to thousands of young Catholics when he attends World Youth Day in Australia, organisers say.
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Success in business: the Moneyball approach
http://www.joewesthead.com/ post/ 34640996Success in business: the Moneyball approach What happens when you combine all the fashionable thought-provoking books and apply it to business? The Tipping Point, Freakonomics, Wikinomics and particularly Moneyball were never intended as books on management but that hasn’t stopped many firms
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The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything
http://999books.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ logic-of-life-uncovering-new-economics.h…I’ve just read the book by Tim Harford while flying 2h30 (each way) to continental Europe. I usually sleep the whole flight so that can only say something positive about the book. Though presenting sound economical concepts it is also a very entertaining book. It gets 4 out of 5.
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John Wilson Blog - The Last 365 Days
http://www.whereisjohnwilson.com/ ?p=6I can’t seem to get the database out of godaddy, so I’m going to sum up everything I wrote about last year, in reverse order, in a few posts (which is kinda sad I guess): Before I was listed on Google there were 109,000,000 posts in front of me (I still need a logo) Seth Godin said I wouldn’t last
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Can Workers' Conditions Abroad Be Monitored?
http://sethgitter.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ can-workers-conditions-abroadcan-be.ht…Recently Robert Reich, Bill Clinton’s former labor secretary, was doing a Q&A on the Freakonomics blog, and he picked a question I submitted. Q: As an econ professor and Democrat I’m still having trouble with the protectionist talk of the two candidates.
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