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El Gentraso: People Will Talk in the NY Post
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Monday, November 14, 2011. People Will Talk in the NY Post. Yesterday's New York Post has an article. Extracted/adapted from People Will Talk. In particular, I refer you to these two pdfs:. Closure and Stability: Persistent Reputation and Enduring Relations among Bankers and Analysts. And his 2005 book Brokerage and Closure. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Surprising Science of Reputation. My new book: People Will Talk: The Surprising Science of Reputation. Was published in autumn 2006. Review: T...
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El Gentraso: February 2011
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Tuesday, February 01, 2011. Let's just give up and put Goldman Sachs in charge of everything. The back page of today's Guardian carries a full-page advert calling for a UK green investment bank, to invest in low carbon technology, etc. An organization called Transform UK. Says it's behind the campaign, and the ad carries the endorsement of 53 organizations of all stripes, including Microsoft, Bank of America/Merril Lynch, the RSPB, TUC, and so on. You can download it here. It can boost econominc. Looks a...
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El Gentraso: Steering clear of the magic kingdom
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Monday, November 14, 2011. Steering clear of the magic kingdom. In his stylish and thought-provoking book Frozen Desire. An Enquiry into the Meaning of Money, James Buchan. Argues that one of money's defining properties is that it robs things of their essences by making them comparable. Similarly, one feature of social media is that, by making our social lives quantifiable in a way they weren't before, they make them more like money. One can count one's twitter followers and facebook friends, compare...
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El Gentraso: Extinction and taxes
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011. There's not actually very much evolution in Robert Frank. S The Darwin Economy. I've got a piece. Frank makes the point that an arms race and a tragedy of the commons are the same thing. Everyone is better off if everyone shows restraint, but any individual is better off if he or she alone cheats. So the rational thing to do is cheat, and everyone ends up worse off. This is a connection that biologists have only just begun to make. In particular, Hanna Kokko. It's this conn...
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El Gentraso: June 2011
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011. The biology and economics of home advantage. Every few years, the Fotherington-Thomases at the London Review of Books. A break from writing about the sorry state of British political life, and let him indulge an apparent obsession with José Mourinho. In the current issue, where he reviews. By Tobias Moskowitz and Jon Wertheim, Runcimann uses the astonishing record of Mourinho’s teams – he went nine years. He’s no faith, for example, in the benefits of local knowledge:. There is pl...
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El Gentraso: Nooooooooooo
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011. I haven't even got copies of People Will Talk yet, and I've found a mistake. In the last chapter, I talk about reputation on the large scale, between groups and countries. This involves a mention of work by Michael Tomz. An economist at Stanford, on the role of reputation in sovereign debt. Tomz's 2007 book Reputation and International Cooperation. My apologies to Professor Tomz. You have a Reputaion without a t in the blog just behind your book. Was published in autumn 2006.
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El Gentraso: Do not trust this post
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011. Do not trust this post. We've always judged each other by the company we keep, but now, when you meet a stranger via Facebook or Twitter, you can see their social network laid out all at once —how many people they are connected to, and who. And that can form part of the information you use to work out whether you like them, or trust them. For people. Unlike websites, however, it seems that people can be too well-connected. In a study. Published this week, David Westerman.
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El Gentraso: PWT on KPCC
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Thursday, November 17, 2011. Today, I'll be talking about People Will Talk. With Larry Mantle, KPCC 89.3. It's an NPR station broadcasting to Pasadena, LA, Orange County and the Web. I'm scheduled to be on at around 11.30 am Pacific Time. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Surprising Science of Reputation. I am a London-based science writer, with a particular interest in evolution, ecology and whatever you call the place where the social and natural sciences meet. Was published in autumn 2006. Steer...
