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Honor Code (Lessons 8 & 9)
“This wasn’t right, damn it. This wasn’t fair.” –Quote attributed to one of the Winklevoss twins in Ben Mezrich, The Accidental Billionaires. In our next lecture, we are going to re-enact another pivotal scene from the film “The Social Network” … Continue reading
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Prisoner’s dilemma everywhere: weekend email from your boss edition
As our friends and fellow “forty-something” bloggers at Cheap Talk like to point out, prisoner dilemmas are everywhere. Suppose you are a junior manager at a large Fortune 500 corporation or a junior attorney/accountant at a firm. Your boss sends … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperation, Deception, Economics, Game Theory
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Nate Silver gets it; Tyler Cowen does not
Two of our favorite public intellectuals on the Internet (is that an oxymoron?) are Nate Silver (fivethirtyeight) and Tyler Cowen (marginalrevolution). We admire Professor Cowen because he is one of the few economists interested in human nature and culture. He … Continue reading
Posted in Bayesian Reasoning, Current Affairs
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Are employer dress codes illegal?
Vanessa Friedman has written a fascinating short essay titled “The End of the Office Dress Code.” In addition to her insightful interview of Susan Scafidi, a law professor at Fordham University and director of the Fashion Law Institute, Ms Friedman … Continue reading
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Dmitry Brant solves the knight’s tour problem
According to Wikipedia (emphasis in original; footnote omitted): “A knight’s tour is a sequence of moves of a knight on a chessboard such that the knight visits every square only once. If the knight ends on a square that is … Continue reading
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Is it too late for Mitt Romney or John Kerry to run as an independent?
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The Law of Ideas
“I’m thinking we keep it simple and call it the facebook.” –Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg, as quoted in Ben Mezrich, The Accidental Billionaires. When Mark Zuckerberg registered the domain name for “thefacebook” and began building his new website in late … Continue reading
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#NextBond
It's Bond. Jane Bond. Thanks for all the votes! (And sorry, don't know who made poster but I love it!) #NextBond pic.twitter.com/f8GC4ZuFgL — Gillian Anderson (@GillianA) May 21, 2016
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prior probability 