Thursday, May 27, 2021

How do you align the incentives of sea captains transporting criminals to Australia with those of British public (1800's)?

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By paying them for the number who arrive alive--instead for number who board the ship--death rates dropped from 30% to 1%. This anecdote i...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Why Finding a Rideshare is So Difficult in Boston

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Because the state restricted surge pricing. Boston Magazine has a nice article explaining the market for ride-sharing. A relatively new sta...
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Sunday, May 23, 2021

Do criminals respond to incentives? (II)

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 In San Francisco they do .  In 2014, the city  reclassified nonviolent thefts as misdemeanors if the stolen goods are worth less than $950....
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On the post-pandemic future of cities

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Bloomberg has an optimistic vision of the post-pandemic central business district (CBD), as more work from home, and density has come to be...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

Agile Software Development

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Traditional software development ("waterfall"), is plagued by predictable problems:  developers plan the next software release, th...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Do criminals respond to incentives?

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At least in Minneapolis they do. I am old enough to remember the debate (late 1980's at the Sentencing Commission) about whether punishm...
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Saturday, May 8, 2021

A Simple App to Teach Regression

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  A Simple App to Teach Regression Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management Research Paper 15 Pages   Posted: 10 Jan 2020   Last revise...
Thursday, May 6, 2021

Removing intellectual property protections: what could possibly go wrong?

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Marginal Revolution has a devastating critique of the Biden Administration support for  “ the waiver of IP protections on COVID-19 vaccines ...
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Saturday, May 1, 2021

Is the recession over yet?

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  HT:  MishTalk
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Thursday, April 22, 2021

Costs of lockdowns are more than 3 times higher than the benefits

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Essay from a  Canadian economist  concludes" ...the cost/benefit ratio of lockdowns in Canada, in terms of life-years saved, is between...
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