Yoram Bauman explains (in an interview with Newsarama) how his article in the Annals of Improbable Research led, more or less, to his new book The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume One: Microeconomics: Eventually it got published in this humor journal called “The Annals of Improbable Research”. They present the Ignoble Prize every year. Then […]
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Flanagan’s double-use double dactyl
From time to time we will publish double dactyls, most of them newly written for this blog (if you write good ones, send em in!). But here’s one we stumbled across. Brian Flanagan uses double dactyl form to review a book about double dactyls — and, more pointedly, to apply economic principles and also review […]
Slemrod sees US tax/death experiment
Ig Nobel Prize winner Joel Slemrod (of the University of Michigan) celebrates/rues/assesses a grand US government experiment that will test his prize-winning theory: A few years ago I called Marc Abrahams offering to return my 2001 Ig Nobel Prize in economics (won jointly with Wojciech Kopczuk [of Columbia University). Our prize-winning research showed that when […]
Effect of Tiger Woods on stock market
LiveScience reports: Tiger Woods’ Affairs Cost Billions in Stock Market Tiger Woods‘ extramarital affairs could cost you if you hold stock in a company he sponsors or a mutual fund that holds stock in those companies. A new study — not yet published in a journal — finds the market value lost to companies that […]