Category Archives: economics

article title of the day

February 27, 2008 – 8:41 pm

“The Economics of Workaholism: We Should Not Have Worked on This Paper” by Daniel Hamermesh and Joel Slemrod.

By Tom Bozzo | Comments (3)

how to diminish the influence of economics

February 27, 2008 – 10:09 am

1. Expend energy railing against the Patriot Employer Act, co-sponsored by Barack Obama. What’s to hate about it? From the Economist’s Free Exchange blog (h/t Mark Thoma):
There is much to dislike in the bill. Essentially, it offers employers a tax credit, worth one percent of taxable income, in exchange for adherence to a [...]

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goodbye sociology

February 8, 2008 – 8:14 pm

I had a very interesting experience yesterday. Very interesting. Perhaps life-changing. You see a couple of weeks ago, I received a call from someone in the computer science department informing me they had a visitor coming to campus from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory who wanted to meet with me. “Ah,” [...]

By blue monster | Also posted in professional, science | Comments (15)

soc2econ!

February 3, 2008 – 1:12 pm

In a thread on orgtheory, the moribund blog “left2right” was brought up, which was apparently an effort by Rock Stars of the Academic Left to have a blog about reaching out to the right. In general, blogs fail when they are premised on the idea of writing for people who’ve adamantly no interest in [...]

By jeremy | Also posted in what does this have to do w/ org theory? | Comments (9)