Friday, May 28, 2010

Should teachers be able to unionize?

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The Wisconsin legislature thinks so, but without merit pay how do they align the incentives of teachers with the goals of schools? The resu...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Aussies Discuss the European Financial Situation

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HT: Boing Boing
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

All we need is Better Regulation

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Who has the incentive to investigate and expose corporate fraud? In " Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud? ," forthcoming in...
Monday, May 24, 2010

When should you trust your instincts?

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McKinsey offers a four-point test: The familiarity test: Have we frequently experienced identical or similar situations? The feedback te...

Game Theory Videos

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Here are 26 short videos on a variety of game theory topics. The videos are thanks to William Spaniel, a graduate student at University of...

Now that we have a European style welfare state, lets learn how to run it efficiently

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Advice from Swedish Economist Andreas Bergh : don't spend your taxes on an inefficient public sector: Sweden is not a socialist success...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Plan B

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Where is Capitalism still viable? For the first time in decades, Singapore (1) and Hong Kong (2) have topped the USA (3) in IMD’s World Com...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

One day, I will be able to say that I taught them

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Texas vs. California II

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Texas is ranked best for business by " Chef Executive " magazine. More to the point, California is dead last. In Chief Executive ...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

What to expect as countries try to get out of debt

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Niall Ferguson, Historian of the Apocalypse, is worried about public debt levels in the Japan, the US and Europe. He tells us what usually ...