Courtesy or a kind invitation from Richard Cave, tomorrow I’ll be heading over to Warwick University to present in their IO Seminar. The talk will be focused on my main ‘IP papers’: Cumulative Innovation, Sampling and the Hold-Up Problem and Imitation and Innovation with and without IP, but if there’s time I [...]
6.5/10. The latest Coen brothers outing is well-made and as dark as one would expect a film derived from a Cormac McCarthy novel to be. However this darkness presents difficulties: in a film in which the only main surviving characters are a sheriff losing hope in humanity and a psychopath1 who are we [...]
Yesterday I attended the first of a series of “Workshops on Well-being” at the LSE organized by Paul Dolan, Richard Layard and Andrew Oswald. Below can be found some (very) impressionistic notes.
Talk by Andrew Oswald: Does Higher Job-Status Make a Person Healthier? A Longitudinal Test of the Whitehall HypothesisBasic (well-known) facts:
Strong inverted [...]7.5/10. A worthy (Rumanian) winner of the Palme D’or at Cannes. This film records with washed out hues and hand-held cinema verite style camerawork the travails of two students on the day that one of them is to obtain an illegal abortion in 1987 Rumania. Compelling throughout, with powerful central performances, this isn’t exactly an [...]
While at the EEA/ESEM summer conference, confronted by the multitude of papers and provoked by the comments of Janos Kornai and Assar Lindbeck, I wondered how things had changed over the last half-century. How many more papers (and economists) were there compared to 20/30/50 years ago, and how had the nature and the quality [...]
6.5/10. Gus Van Sant’s latest outing into the disaffected and disconnected world of modern American teendom is not as engaging as it might be but has much of interest, particularly when read in the wider perspective of his other recent work especially films such as Elephant.
Similar, in many ways, to the work of contemporary [...]
2008-06: There is now a pdf version of these comments available. This may be a better way to read this as some people have reported difficulties with viewing the maths in the page (requires mathml support — via firefox + mathml fonts or IE).
Back last October I was a participant in a “Networks” [...]
6.5/10. Well-written and slickly put together with some nice comic set pieces. Nevertheless the film never managed to really get beyond this (did it even intend to?) to the larger, and more important, themes; be these the emptiness of Charlie Wilson’s hedonistic personal life (and the mirror it holds up to the US in the [...]
Consider a metal arm fixed by a pin. If it is hung vertically then the arm, no matter where it starts, will always end up in the same position. However, if you fix the arm (perfectly) horizontally it will stay forever in its initial position. The first case is ergodic: we converge independent of the [...]
Herewith are further (partial, impressionistic) notes from the second day of the two-day workshop (programme) on Rationality and Emotions organized by Miriam Teschl at Robinson College here in Cambridge.
S-Shaped Probability Weighting and Hyperbolic Preference Reversal – An Intimate Relationship by Herbert WaltherWalther has published these results as a 2003 paper in [...]
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