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August 8th, 2008

Site Update

The CSS on the previous theme is acting funny, most likely due to the huge influx of traffic on the […]

August 8th, 2008

Still number 1? How?

I put the 2050 article's popularity down to a slow news week in August, but it's the most emailed story […]

August 7th, 2008

Fields Medal Winner Terrence Tao on Time Management

Terrence Tao is one of the smartest and most accomplished human beings alive. Every economist who is not Joseph Stiglitz […]

August 7th, 2008

Still #1?

This is getting out of hand, obviously it's a slow news day, but why is the 2050 article the most […]

August 7th, 2008

Comments and Reaction to the 2050 article

What life will be like for a middle class family in 2050 is still the most read and emailed article […]

August 7th, 2008

What will life be like in the year 2008?

Image by kevindooley via Flickr A commenter on Crooked Timber posts a link to Modern Mechanic's 1968 look at what […]

August 6th, 2008

Update on the Irish Times article

82 interesting and nice emails, 1 nasty email, and 1 radio interview later, and it seems the little bit of […]

August 5th, 2008

Another Paper on Using the Mobile Phone in Teaching Experiments

Dr. Stephen Cheung has a fascinating paper on the use of a mobile phone messaging system in his classes, which […]

August 4th, 2008

Issuu.com or Scribd.com?

Inserting .pdf files onto websites isn't a great idea for handouts for two reasons: first, I can't see how many […]

August 3rd, 2008

De Grauwe on DSGE Models

De Grauwe gets raw on Central Banks and their reliance on DSGE modeling: One of the surprising developments in macroeconomics […]

August 3rd, 2008

Creative Destruction: The Bacon Alarm Clock

These guys have it right: The Wake n’ Bacon gently wakes you up with the mouthwatering aroma of bacon, just […]

August 2nd, 2008

Unpleasant Economics of Medical Innovation

A profile of one of our papers appeared in Medical News Today, here's some of the article: Three to five […]

August 2nd, 2008

Teaching Colophon: Hardware, Software and Sites I use for Teaching

Some days, the web feels like 5 people trying to make something; 5k people turning it into a list; and […]

August 2nd, 2008

data visualisation test 1

Just a test post. Here are a few charts of the same data from a paper I'm working on using […]

August 1st, 2008

Limit Order Only Markets

Image via Wikipedia Attention conservation notice: apologies for all the code/typos/stupidity here, I'm working on some notes on Limit Orders […]

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