In Memoriam Reinhard Selten (1930 – 2016)
German economist extraordinaire Reinhard Selten has died. Born October 1930, he was 85. In 1994 he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences which he shared with John Harsanyi and John...
View ArticleIn Memoriam Thomas C. Schelling
Tom Schelling was a US American economist (born April 14, 1921); until his death yesterday (Aussie time) he was Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was...
View ArticleLemonade and the question of (laboratory) evidence
Lemonade Inc., the New York based fintech startup that sells home and renters insurance has been in the news recently. It has raised tens of millions in venture capital and also considerable interest...
View ArticleBoehmermann vs Erdogan – an update
You might remember the case of German comedian Boehmermann and the poem with which he demonstrated what you could, by then-German law (paragraph 103 StGB, the Criminal Code), *not* say about...
View ArticleReview: Tomer’s Advanced Introduction to Behavioral Economics
In the next couple of months I shall, in preparation for an invited longer review essay on recent books on BE, post reviews of individual books such as Tomer’s, Angner’s A Course in Behavioral...
View ArticleEthical failures: Where they come from and how to address them
A review of Gentilin, Dennis. The Origins of Ethical Failures. Lessons for Leaders. A Gower Book. Routledge (2016). ISBN: 978-1-138-69051-6 Ethical failures were in the press big-time in 2017....
View ArticleKalle and me. Schumpeter, too.
[One of my intellectual heroes, Karl Marx, had his 200th birthday (May 5) this weekend. So I decided to reflect on his influence.] My first encounter with Kalle was when I was still in (the equivalent...
View ArticleComments on the Interim Report of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the...
October 26, 2018 The following remarks are informed by discussions during a by-invitation-only roundtable on October 19 that was organized by the UNSW Business School research networks on Cyber...
View ArticleLiving/minimum wage: what we know
Version 1.0 (April 24, 2019) A couple of weeks ago, I got ensnarled in one of these debates on Facebook that do not go anywhere; it was triggered by the Australian Labor Party’s recent Living Wage...
View ArticleReview: Katy Barnett’s The Earth Below
Almost a century after “the Catastrophe”, a group of survivors have built a new society deep in the safety of an underground network. The earth above is mostly uninhabitable, with skeletons everywhere...
View ArticleMy take on NOISE (the book)
Executive Summary: I’m not much impressed. For details see here: Comments welcome.
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