Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
The Game Theorist: John Nash, 1928-2015
The impact of John Nash’s initial work has been immense over the past 65 years. It seems certain that in his absence, the frameworks and mathematical language he refined and developed will continue to provide new insights into a diverse range of problems.
Democracy’s Statistician: Janet L. Norwood, 1923-2015
Unflappable and nonpartisan, the late economist Janet Norwood blazed a path as a pioneering female statistician and bureaucrat who served multiple presidents as the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Studying Economics: Of the Elites by the Elites
UK universities have had to become much more responsive to changes in the pattern of demand and compete with one another for different revenue streams. New universities have retreated from offering economics programs even as student numbers have risen substantially.
Book Review: Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries
Have some time to read before the new semester starts? Akos Rona-Tas, Alya Guseva : Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards […]
Book Review: Steven G. Mandis: What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences
Looking for a good read now that the semester is winding down? Steven G. Mandis: What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s […]
Book Review: Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street
Grab a mug of your favorite hot beverage and put those slippered feet up for a well-deserved weekend read! Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary […]
Does Restaurant Success Depend on More Than Location?
When choosing where to open a restaurant, many businessmen may recall the adage “location, location, location.” But even a prime location doesn’t […]
How Economics Lost Its Identity (Australian Edition)
Business and finance are important, but they’re not the same thing as economics. One academic’s suggestions for making that distinction clear as early as secondary school.
