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Black Friday Discounts and Price Discrimination, Online, by Arnold Kling
EconLog —
Authority: 692
A reader writes, If the price-insensitive people are at home avoiding the crowds then it would seem the online stores would be getting shopped by a higher than average percentage of price-insensitive people. It appears to me the price discrimination theory doesnt work for explaining sales at online stores. The ...11 hours ago -
The gambler’s argument
Nick Anstead —
Authority: 123
Despite being at the centre of an international storm , life continues at normal for most of us at UEA. Nonetheless, there is a sense that the leaking of emails relating to the work of the Climate Research Unit has done serious damage to the public’s confidence in the idea of enhanced global warming. Yet it is ...1 day ago -
Game theory in Numb3rs: hide and seek
Mind Your Decisions —
Authority: 407
I occasionally enjoy watching the TV show Numb3rs. The show is about a team of FBI agents who solve crimes with the help of a fictional mathematics professor, Charlie Eppes. During a crime investigation, Charlie comes on the scene to analyze all of the numbers and look for patterns that can help the FBI agents track ...1 day ago -
Four for Monday Night
Gerry Canavan —
Authority: 485
* Like Hell I’m Going To Let Some Black President Help Me Pay For Dialysis. (via Srinivas) * How much would you pay to fix climate change? The Planet Money podcast reports. * ‘People Hear With Skin as Well as Their Ears.’ (via Erica) * University of Arizona law professor Brent T. White has jumpstarted ...2 days ago -
Tyler is unimpressed with Sarah Palins Scrabble strategies
Caveat Bettor —
Authority: 434
and what that might suggest for her foreign policy aptitude . I would say that our current White House leadership suggests problems with portfolio and game theory , too.2 days ago -
Attack the Puzzle
Occam's RazR —
Authority: 120
How do you attack a jigsaw puzzle? Odds are, you are constantly staring at the box it came in, looking for the bigger picture. You’re probably searching through the pieces, separating the edges and isolating those all-important four corner pieces. Then, you start matching similar colors, and jamming and wedging ...3 days ago -
A Holiday Guide to Game Theory and Negotiations
Digital Tonto —
Authority: 118
The end of the year isn’t just about cheer and kisses under the mistletoe. It’s also time to wrap up annual negotiations and our well being over the next 12 months is highly dependent on what we can achieve now. To be successful, you have to be tough, but it also helps to have a strategy. To that end, I put ...4 days ago -
The socialite game
Arvind Narayanan's journal —
Authority: 477
Socialites are often famous for being famous . Although this description is used pejoratively, a variety of human activities center around social games where one gains power by associating with those who are already powerful. Power is defined purely in terms of the network of relationships, with no inherent measure ...6 days ago -
Video Game Design – Do You Have What It Takes To Design Games?
video game reviews —
Authority: 149
If you’re an avid video gamer and while sitting at home playing your favorite game, you think to yourself, “I could do this better”, video game design might be the perfect job for you someday. But there are some key skills you’ll need to have before you can enter the field and truly make an impact on the video ...1 week ago -
Law and Morality in Economic Life
Economics —
Authority: 142
It is easier to destroy a society than it is to build it. And tipping points that cause people en mass to lose faith and confidence in institutions are more likely than we might assume. This was one of the themes from an outstanding lecture given at the Royal Institution yesterday by Sir Partha Dasgupta as this ...1 week ago -
Are Nash Equilibriums Killing Agile Initiatives?
EppsNet: Notes from the Golden Orange —
Authority: 135
If each player has chosen a strategy and no player can benefit by changing his or her strategy while the other players keep theirs unchanged, then the current set of strategy choices and the corresponding payoffs constitute a Nash equilibrium. A system may have many possible Nash equilibriums. There is no guarantee ...1 week ago -
One way to model dictatorship
The Democratic Piece —
Authority: 413
Says the BBC: Iraqi politics is still a zero-sum game, and one in which the Sunni Arabs feel themselves doomed to be the losers. Last week I analogized the situation to repeated games of Chicken .1 week ago -
Charlie Brown and game theory
Mind Your Decisions —
Authority: 407
I grew up watching Charlie Brown and the many Peanuts holiday cartoon specials. At holiday time I am always reminded of the Great Pumpkin, Snoopy’s antics, and the cheesy phone conversations. But most of all I am reminded of Charlie Brown and game theory. Most of you will recall the running gag. Charlie Brown would ...1 week ago -
Lessig: Institutional Corruption
The Pirate's Dilemma —
Authority: 451
The reason we’re not getting the copyright reforms we deserve, the environmental policies we need or the public healthcare option most Americans want is the same: Institutional Corruption. We know this, but Lawrence Lessig ’s latest presentation does an incredible job of bringing the issue sharply into focus. ...1 week ago -
How ego saved the world one game at a time
thomas knoll —
Authority: 122
Like any reasonable thinking human, the topic of most interest to me is myself. But, I guess it is that understanding of my own ego that makes all of this “being human” think work? With that in mind, I will redirect my attention towards my own little obsession with understanding others focus on themselves. Which ...1 week ago -
The Predictioneer’s Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future
Through Your Body: —
Authority: 129
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita wants you to buy his book. He wants royalties and he wants fame. He wants the book to promote his consulting business. The text may well be full of self-promotional tall tales and calumny — unless the author calculated that the costs of dishonesty (potential intellectual disrepute) outweighed ...1 week ago -
Quotes of the day
Caveat Bettor —
Authority: 434
[America has] the kind of culture that can tolerate rap music and extreme sports that can also create space for guys like Page and Brin and Google. Thats one of our hidden strengths.-- Paul Romer ... if an attractive woman tells you "You dont want to go out with me" do you believe her and act on that?-- Megan ...1 week ago -
Blazetrak: New Site Allows Users to Submit Demos and Get Video Feedback from a Professional
New York Buzz —
Authority: 108
Since I joined AMP3 PR I’ve probably spoken with over a hundred different companies, often start-ups, calling our office looking to get PR, representation or brand management. Out of those 100 calls, only a small fraction typically convey a well thought-out business model, or give off an impression of – what I ...1 week ago -
Three on Belichicks Decision
Market Power —
Authority: 503
Brian Goff . Stacey Brook . Greg Mankiw . The consensus: examining a decision based solely on the outcome of the decision is not the best way to judge.1 week ago -
Learning with Digital Games – Nicola Whitton
Electric Archaeology: Digital Media for Learning and Research —
Authority: 410
I’ve just gotten my hands on an (e-)inspection version of Nicola Whitton’s Learning with Digital Games: A Practical Guide to Engaging Students in Higher Education . From the introduction, Two recent UK studies provide evidence that students may not be as comfortable with technology for learning and new ways ...2 weeks ago
