atlantic-monthly economics Internet pornography Sexual desire, authenticity, and Internet business models Among the many errors in N. Vargas-Cooper's Atlantic article this month on Internet porn , one stands out as the major falla… Saturday, January 8, 2011 Add Comment Edit
ebooks economics Games intellectual-property kindle music publishing Electronic goods markets: end-to-end wins? Hypothesis: As industries of cultural production adapt to digital distribution, content publishers in each industry will follow, … Thursday, February 11, 2010 Add Comment Edit
economics math social-justice Coase and Pareto optimality illustrated The Coase Theorem states that absent transaction costs, a Pareto efficient outcome will be arrived at regardless of the assignm… Monday, October 12, 2009 Add Comment Edit
economics journalism Technology T. B. Lee on journalism and the Innovator's Dilemma T. B. Lee ( not T. Berners-Lee ) has a newish blog and it has proved excellent enough* that it exceeded my expectations (which w… Thursday, August 27, 2009 Add Comment Edit
economics journalism A business model for reporting I would pay $50 a year for Seymour Hersh's reporting alone.* So, suppose I did that. Then suppose that there are twenty tho… Monday, July 27, 2009 Add Comment Edit
cars economics welfare $255,319 ...for every GM employee. R. Reich says we've sunk $60 billion into GM. Divide by 235,000 employees as of 2009q1 ( accordi… Monday, June 1, 2009 Add Comment Edit
economics journalism C. Shirky on the end of newspapers (again) You must Read The Whole Thing , but here is a taste: Revolutions create a curious inversion of perception. In ordinary times, peo… Sunday, March 15, 2009 Add Comment Edit
economics game-theory journalism Centrism begets extremism, in a precise game-theoretic sense (Excavated from recent unpublished drafts.) This is not rocket science. Suppose a couple* is getting divorced and in joint posses… Thursday, February 26, 2009 Add Comment Edit