Tag Archives: economics

Goodbye Information Economy, Hello Feedback Economy [via Forbes/O'Reilly Media]

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Niall Ferguson: The 6 Killer Apps of Prosperity [ TED 2011 ]

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Unlocking the Law: Deregulating the Legal Profession — Truth on the Market Symposium

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The Great Mismatch: A Special Report on Jobs [ Audio Interview from The Economist ]

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Judges in Jeopardy? – Actually – It is Lawyers in Jeopardy

While I really appreciate the spirit of this article, I have to say that the question posed by the author is not actually the critical one.  As noted by Larry Ribstein in his post “Lawyers in Jeopardy” — the primary … Continue reading

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Information Efficiency and Financial Stability

From the abstract: “The authors study a simple model of an asset market with informed and non-informed agents. In the absence of non-informed agents, the market becomes information efficient when the number of traders with different private information is large … Continue reading

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The Hindsight Fallacy: The Real Reason It’s So Hard to Predict Bubbles [Via Slate]

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The Great Stagnation: Why Hasn’t Recent Technology Created More Jobs? [PBS Newshour]

As part of his continuing coverage of Making Sen$e of financial news, Paul Solman reports on why more good jobs haven’t been created in recent years. Can new technological innovations create widespread job growth as past generations have seen? Tyler … Continue reading

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Network Structure of Production [From PNAS]

From the abstract: “Complex social networks have received increasing attention from researchers. Recent work has focused on mechanisms that produce scale-free networks. We theoretically and empirically characterize the buyer–supplier network of the US economy and find that purely scale-free models … Continue reading

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Exponential Growth Rate of US Stocks since 1871 [ Via Visualizing Economics ]

If you would like to see this chart plotted on a log scale click here. Also, Visualizing Economics has a number of other very interesting projects worth checking out.

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Laurie Santos: A Monkey Economy as Irrational as Ours [TED]

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