Just posted some early stage notes on experimental games in economics.
5/10. After the excellence of Gondry’s last outing (The Science of Sleep) this was a real disappointment.
Following the first workshop a month ago, today I attended the second of a series of “Workshops on Well-being” at the LSE. Below are some (very) impressionistic notes.
Presentation by Paul Dolan and Robert Metcalfe: Valuing non-market Goods: Preference based and experience based methodsHow do Value non-market goods?
Preferences revealed (observed market behaviour) [...]5/10. A detective story with pretensions to saying something profound about the late twentieth century leisure society. Unfortunately, despite the occasional epigrammatic aside, there is little here to raise this novel much beyond the average in any genre.
A refactoring of the first theoretical part of my optimal copyright paper has now been published in the December issue of the Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues (RERCI) under the title: Optimal Copyright over Time: Technological Change and the Stock of Works. A preprint can be found at:
http://www.rufuspollock.org/economics/papers/optimal_copyright_over_time.pdf
I recently took delivery of a Novatech X40r system (Novatech are one of the few suppliers who allow me to get a machine without Windows). The most recent version of Ubuntu (Gutsy) installed without any issues — though I couldn’t quite seem to get the display resolution to match the screen resolution. Next step was [...]
7.5/10. Finished a few weeks ago this is another (rather earlier) example of Hastings’ skill in writing penetrating and engaging military history, as well as his willingness to be critical of existing ‘sacred cows’. Among other things Hastings:
Argues that the famous Mulberrys were probably a waste of time and resources. Shows how the Air [...]Tomorrow I’ll be speaking with Nate Olson at the latest Oxford Geek Night on the subject of Open Knowledge and Componentization. Here’s the blurb:
Componentization on a large scale (such as in the Debian ‘apt’ packaging system) has allowed large software projects to be amazingly productive through their use of a decentralised, collaborative, incremental [...]
6/10. This latest outing from Sidney Lumet is an unusual combination of family melodrama and crime-gone-wrong Greek tragedy. Unfortunately, though ticking all the boxes (acting, script etc) it left one rather cold, largely due to the absence of any character who merited the audience’s sympathy. After all, for tragedy to work must care about the [...]
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Dr. Rufus Pollock is co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge.
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