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What are some of the biggest problems with a guaranteed annual income? - Marginal REVOLUTION
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What are some of the biggest problems with a guaranteed annual income? On November 14, 2013 at 7:06 am. Maybe this isn’t the biggest problem, but it’s been my worry as of late. Must a guaranteed income truly be. Might there be circumstances when we would want to pay some individuals more than others? Might we also wish to pay more to some individuals with disabilities, perhaps say to help them afford expensive wheelchairs? But then we are paying more cash to the sick individuals. That doesn’t h...Or we c...
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Assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
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On March 18, 2014 at 12:16 pm. 1 Russ Roberts interviews Jeffrey Sachs. The most contentious parts are toward the end. 2 U Chicago is the most leveraged of the wealthy colleges. 3 Very good 538 piece on Venezuela and Bolivia. And a list of the economics questions they are being asked. And Megan on the new media start-ups. 8220;The biggest constraint that any of these organizations will face in growing traffic and reputation is the finite time of the founders.”. March 18, 2014 at 1:18 pm. This could becom...
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The ten most irritating phrases? - Marginal REVOLUTION
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The ten most irritating phrases? On November 11, 2008 at 11:21 am. Here is one list. The top ten most irritating phrases:. 1 – At the end of the day. 2 – Fairly unique. 3 – I personally. 4 – At this moment in time. 5 – With all due respect. 6 – Absolutely. 7 – It’s a nightmare. 8 – Shouldn’t of. 9 – 24/7. 10 – It’s not rocket science. I thank Yang He for the pointer. At the end of the day, what would you add to this fairly unique list? November 11, 2008 at 11:25 am. 11 – literally. A student of economics.
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On July 9, 2011 at 12:12 pm. 1 Markets in everything. 2 Will Americans adapt to the self-driving car. 3 How Singapore does bus subsidies. 4 When nudge backfires. 5 Guided by the Lit. 6 The truth about wealth. July 9, 2011 at 12:21 pm. This Murphy Krugman debate has to be the most pathetic attempt at bullying I have ever seen. You should see the comments:. 8216;Haha, yeah we’ve got Krugman in a corner, how can he justify stopping thousands of pounds being given to charity? Nothing to do with Krugman.
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The Rise of Opaque Intelligence - Marginal REVOLUTION
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The Rise of Opaque Intelligence. On February 20, 2015 at 7:31 am. Listen college boy, I’m not paying you to think. I’m paying you to do what I tell you to do. 8230;there will be Luddites of a sort. Here are all these new devices telling me what to do but screw them; I’m a human being! I put this slightly differently, the problem isn’t. Driver’s using UPS’s super algorithm, Orion, to plan their delivery route:. One driver, who declined to speak for attribution, said he has been on Orion since mid-2014 and...
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The Great Divide over Market Efficiency - Marginal REVOLUTION
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The Great Divide over Market Efficiency. On March 10, 2014 at 7:28 am. Clifford Asness and John Liew have an excellent piece in Institutional Investor on Fama, Shiller and The Great Divide over Market Efficiency. Asness and Liew are both students of Fama so you might expect them to come down squarely on the side of market efficiency but they are also co-founders of AQR Capital. For example, AQR sponsors the AQR Insight Award. Lots of other history and insights. March 10, 2014 at 8:12 am. I invite you to ...
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Companies won't even look at the resumes of the long-term unemployed - Marginal REVOLUTION
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Companies won’t even look at the resumes of the long-term unemployed. On April 15, 2013 at 2:45 pm. Read this post by Brad Plumer. Here is an excerpt:. Matthew O’Brien reports on. A striking new paper by Rand Ghayad…The researchers sent out 4,800 fake résumés at random for 600 job openings. What they found is that employers would rather call back someone with. 8230;This jibes with earlier research. I think of this as further illustration of what I have called ZMP workers. I’ve sometimes seen it hin...
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