Here’s a book that captures them all in one net. Beautiful Game Theory: How Soccer Can Help Economics
Inflation and “quality”
We need to adjust prices for the “quality” of the goods, or more generally for the goods’ features. My own work in this are has been on hard disk drives, in Ruebeck (2002, 2005). Marketplace has a series on inflation,…
Salmon and inflation
This is part of a series on inflation. The price of smoked salmon hasn’t swum upstream (Marketplace) Of course, what we’re asking when we “adjust for inflation” is how prices have changed relate to an average. (That average is weighted…
Diversity, who thinks it’s a good idea?
Google thinks it’s a good idea, that’s who. Google explores why everyone is a little bit racist (Marketplace) India evidently thinks so, too. Women are the face of India’s Mars mission, but they’re still the exception (PRI) (As featured by…
Data, people, and corporate culture
Stop Searching for That Elusive Data Scientist … the typical team was collectively less skilled and competent than a typical data scientist. But that collective team learned from each other and sent a message to the rest of the organization…
Firm size in Britain, under regulation
Retail locations are amazingly small in “world cities” like London, but they appeared to me even smaller there than most. It may be due to characteristics of the clientele or of the merchandise, but those shops appeared too small to…