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MOOC of the Month
“MOOC” stands for massive open online course. Above is a preview of one of the MOOCs we’re taking this summer. It’s called Internet Giants: The Law & Economics of Media Platforms and is taught by Professor Randall Picker, a law professor at the University of … Continue reading
Universal Daemonization, Karma Credits, and “Karma Bankruptcy”
Via marginal revolution, Tyler Cowen has brought to our attention this fascinating blog post by Daniel Miessler about the future of the Internet. Mr Miessler envisions a future with “Universal Daemonization” or an Electronic I.D. System in which every person … Continue reading
Suburbia
Two Orlando houses with adjacent backyards are separated by 7 miles of roads – http://t.co/tw1BClZLUL— Amazing Maps (@Amazing_Maps) July 07, 2015
A public service announcement
Beware the mosquito and … your fellow man.
Happy Bastille Day!
Image Credit: Roberta, via Creative (Un)block.
Pop Quiz (Twitter Edition)
https://twitter.com/farnamstreet/status/514362704312934401?refsrc=email For us, it’s either Thomas Schelling’s The Strategy of Conflict (look it up!), or … anything ever written by David Hume. (Via Marginal Revolution.)
The Coase Theorem and the Prisoner’s Dilemma
The John Marshall Law Review or JMLR has just published our paper (with Orlando I. Martinez-Garcia) “Does the Prisoner’s Dilemma Refute the Coase Theorem?” (Our editors were a little behind schedule, as the official citation to our paper is JMLR, … Continue reading

