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Television Markets in the Continental U.S.
Why not use this map of broadcast TV markets to create a new system of congressional voting districts and thus solve the gerrymandering problem in politics? Hat tip: elliotd303 (via reddit).
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The Economics of Internet Platforms
Question: What do all of these Internet platforms have in common? In the case of Uber, Alibaba, and Airbnb, these platforms create new markets by bringing together sellers and buyers … But what type of market is Facebook creating? (Hat … Continue reading
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“Breaking Bad and the Natural Law Tradition”
Update (2 Feb. 2016): Our paper has a new title: “So Long Suckers: Bargaining and Betrayal in Breaking Bad.” We’ve posted a complete draft of our working paper on SSRN, and we’ve posted our new abstract here. That is the … Continue reading
Trick or Treat? A Reverse Dutch Auction of Puerto Rico’s Public Debts
This is the most novel solution to Puerto Rico’s current debt crisis we’ve studied thus far, an idea attributed to Professor Arturo Estrella, an economist at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York State. (We say “attributed to” because we can’t … Continue reading
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¡Feliz Halloween!
Mexico’s Favorite Halloween Costumes: El Chapo and Trump https://t.co/3P8y1xkrVT h/t @nycsouthpaw pic.twitter.com/sA8rNwiJQ7 — Miriam Elder (@MiriamElder) October 30, 2015
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Jeb! may have called out the wrong senator last night
Putting the "Rubio missing Senate votes" narrative to bed in one graphic… https://t.co/383fs0cDuc— Aaron Robinow (@aaronrobinow) October 27, 2015
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thefacebook LLC vs. Facebook, Inc.
“It wasn’t about two kids in a dorm room anymore.” –Ben Mezrich, The Accidental Billionaires, Ch. 25. When an entrepreneur launches a new business, like Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg did when he created “thefacebook” in the spring of 2004, he or she … Continue reading
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The Mathematics of the St Louis Arch
In honor of the Arch turning 50 years old today(!), check out this paper on “The Mathematics of the Gateway Arch” by Robert Osserman. What an amazing way to illustrate the concept of functions in mathematics! Image credit: Alex Dzierba.
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Allocation of Water Rights through Auctions
Since 2012, the journal Science has published a series of informal surveys called “NextGen Voices” regarding various aspects of science. The most recent NextGen survey posed the following questions: “Imagine that there is unlimited funding available for one currently unexplored … Continue reading
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prior probability 