The importance of standards
As I've argued on this blog before, standards are an important public good - and in the age of information, an increasingly important public good....
Self-employment rate falling in Oz
The Decline of the Self-Employment Rate in Australia,Atalay, Kadir, Kim, Woo-Yung, Whelan, Stephen URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:syd:wpaper:2123/8925&r=ent This paper using the Australian panel data(HILDA) investigates the declining trend of...
Vive la difference
These two images dominate a marketing email that's just arrived in my in tray from Olsen Irwin Galleries. Guy Maestri Ball's Pyramid No.10 oil on linen...
Is economics a science?
In the past month, I ran posts on the limits to certainty in economics. On the theory side, I talked about how mathematical tractability limited...
A nice “spending more time with my family” letter from Andrew Mason
People of Groupon, After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time...