Social and Monetary Incentives
Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment, Tonin, Mirco (University of Southampton), Vlassopoulos, Michael (University of Southampton) Contributing to a social cause...
Economic analogies furiously sleep in the collective unconscious
Via Matt Cowgill, I was pointed to this Nick Rowe post. An exerpt 1. Watch what happens on a really steep uphill bit of road....
Dani Rodrik on Convergence
Dani Rodrik is one of the most interesting and fruitful economists of trade and development around. He's just put out a new paper on convergence...
Justin O’Brien
Here's a nice painting - which will be auctioned at Southerby's in Melbourne on the 14th Aug. More nice things to look at are here.
a urgent message from the bang of bendigu re your acount dertails
New scientists Feedback page, 18th July issue, reports some recent research that has produced results so obvious that they might be brilliant. Why is it...
Heresy: Coalition States right to snub Gillard’s disability insurance gambit
The left-leaning twitterverse went into predictable convulsions of outrage yesterday when it emerged that (equally predictably) the four Coalition States had declined to pony up...
Stopping debt and deficit in the Territory?
[caption id="attachment_21086" align="alignright" width="300"] Debt was a very popular theme with Malcolm as well ...[/caption] Like Tony Abbott at a federal level, NT Country Liberals...