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    Thursday, May 15, 2008 Manipulating Yourself for Your Own Good (1 click)
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May 15, 2008 at 2:55 pm ET Standard economic theory implies that we maximize our happiness if we have more choices. Yet we limit our choices -- impose self-control mechanisms -- voluntarily in order to improve our well-being. For example, I just ... (more) The Illusionists (2 clicks)
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May 15, 2008 at 1:44 pm ET Screen shot from Arthur Shapiro's blog.
For fans of the Spinning Dancer illusion, let us recommend Arthur Shapiro's Illusion Sciences blog, which features a new optical illusion every week.
Shapiro, an associate professor at the Bucknell ... (more) Economics, Politics, and Happiness (4 clicks)
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May 15, 2008 at 1:09 pm ET I’ve been enjoying Arthur Brooks’s musings on the relationship between personal politics and personal happiness. And so I was interested to read an interesting piece in The Times (of London), assessing how my own ... (more) From Freakonomics Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 15, 2008 at 10:17 am ET Here’s the most recent guest bleg from Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations. His past blegs can be found here.
Last week about 100 people responded to my blegging for examples of ... (more) Wednesday, May 14, 2008 From Freakonomics Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 14, 2008 at 2:38 pm ET The average item bought by the average buyer has an income elasticity of nearly one: most people roughly double their spending when their income doubles. But everything we buy consists of both a quantity dimension ... (more) From Freakonomics Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 14, 2008 at 1:04 pm ET A couple of months ago, Dubner and Levitt wrote about how poorly constructed laws can lead to some unintended consequences. Let me add one more example to their list, albeit one that I’m enjoying.
The Pennsylvania ... (more) The Politics of Happiness, Part 4 (2 clicks)
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May 14, 2008 at 11:14 am ET My last three posts have shown that conservatives are generally a lot happier than liberals; that religion is a major factor in this; and that worldview matters a lot as well.
But I have employed ... (more) Forget Ferraris, Lock Up Your Bulldozer (4 clicks)
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May 14, 2008 at 10:36 am ET In Moscow, you might be more likely to find a LoJack system on a dump truck than a Porsche.
Russia’s domestic supply of construction equipment can’t meet the demand created by Moscow’s construction boom, ... (more) Tuesday, May 13, 2008 From Freakonomics Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 4:11 pm ET We've had a lot of conversations on this blog about charitable contributions. For instance: where people like to give, and why; how a young philanthropist should disburse $70 million; whether to give to a street ... (more) From Freakonomics Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 1:57 pm ET The Society of Labor Economists, a professional organization, gives awards to worthy scholars. One is for lifetime achievement, the other to a scholar who finished his/her education within the past 12 years. The American Economic ... (more) From Freakonomics Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 11:56 am ET I blogged last July about the creative ideas Preston McAfee was bringing to the journal he edits called Economic Inquiry.
One of his innovations was a "no revisions" option whereby an author could submit a paper ... (more) From Freakonomics Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 10:42 am ET Several years ago I watched a particularly memorable “Law Revue” skit night at Yale. One of the skits had a group of students sitting at desks, facing the audience, listening to a professor drone on. ... (more) From Freakonomics Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 13, 2008 at 9:32 am ET Can texting make people more health-conscious? (Earlier)
Are men really that visual?
For those who are serious about their weather.(HT: Eric Floehr)(Earlier)
The changing face of the "business expert." ... (more) Monday, May 12, 2008 Have You Ever Noticed … (1 click)
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May 12, 2008 at 2:36 pm ET … that people who go around saying "I'm a perfectionist" never are, while people who actually are perfectionists never go around saying it?
I have. ... (more) Happy Birthday, Dad (1 click)
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May 12, 2008 at 1:08 pm ET When it comes to creativity and storytelling, my sister Linda Jines got all the talent. She, for instance, is the genius who thought up the title "Freakonomics."
In what we hope will be the first in ... (more) $2.99 Gas (1 click)
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May 12, 2008 at 11:36 am ET I love Chrysler's new incentive program that guarantees consumers who buy one of their new cars or trucks won't pay more than $2.99 a gallon at the pump for the first three years they own ... (more) Another Pay-as-You-Wish Success Story (4 clicks)
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May 12, 2008 at 10:11 am ET We've written before about pay-as-you-wish commerce, most significantly the case of a bagel man in the Washington, D.C., area, but also a coffee shop in Seattle and three instances of pay-as-you-wish download-able music: Radiohead, Jane ... (more) Break Glass in Event of Commitment Emergency (3 clicks)
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May 12, 2008 at 9:33 am ET How's this for a commitment device?
Alexandra Von Feldmann's sculpture, the "Birth Clock" is a timepiece frozen in a glass bubble.
The moment you break the glass, the clock springs to life, marking progress.
Or, ... (more) Friday, May 9, 2008 From Freakonomics Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 9, 2008 at 2:24 pm ET Michael Pollan recently wrote a provocative and thoughtful essay called "Why Bother?" in The Times Magazine about whether it's worth it to make individual behavior changes to fight climate change. There were a lot of ... (more) From Freakonomics Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
May 9, 2008 at 1:19 pm ET Almost:
… like seeing the Pope: texting him.
… all commercial U.S. flights have no air marshals on board.
… a German officer came that close to assassinating Hitler.
… how far Rolls Royce Q1 orders ... (more) Progress on Prediction Markets (10 clicks)
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May 9, 2008 at 11:58 am ET One of the real barriers to widespread adoption of prediction markets by U.S. corporations has been a murky legal environment. Are prediction markets legitimate business tools, an alternative set of securities markets requiring SEC regulation, ... (more) Is Credit Due? (3 clicks)
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May 9, 2008 at 10:37 am ET In our Times column published last Sunday, we wrote about how Mike Zarren of the Boston Celtics organization uses statistical analysis to help with personnel and strategic decisions.
Here's one paragraph toward the end:
Zarren is ... (more) The Crime Drop of the 2020’s? (1 click)
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May 9, 2008 at 9:33 am ET The E.P.A. has proposed new rules that would drastically reduce the permissible level of lead in air pollution. If the change goes into effect, it will mark the first time lead emissions standards have been ... (more) Thursday, May 8, 2008 What’s the Worst E-Mail Mistake You Ever Made? (23 clicks)
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May 8, 2008 at 2:29 pm ET The other day, I received an e-mail that I shouldn't have. While my name was indeed in the list of addressees, and while I knew some of the other addressees (as well as the sender), ... (more) FREAK Shots: Compel Them With Empathy (1 click)
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May 8, 2008 at 1:07 pm ET A recent FREAK Shot sparked a series of photo submissions and comments about the best way for a sign to get people to do what it’s asking.
In this video, Wired contributing editor Daniel Pink claims ... (more) Items 1 - 25 of 638
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