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Colin Camerer Lecture - April 26th
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Our three new hires at George Mason economics
Nataliya Naumenko Northwestern Ph.D, Brown post doc, Joel Mokyr student. Here is her job market paper: Job Market Paper The Political Economy of Famine: the Ukrainian Famine of 1933 Download Job Market Paper (pdf) Abstract: The famine of 1932–1933...
HUD Sues Facebook Over Housing Discrimination and Says the Company’s Algorithms Have Made the Problem Worse
The charge comes a week after Facebook made major changes to its advertising platform, and two years after our reporting raised the issue.
Caltech Division of Engineering and Applied Science | News | Undergraduate Students Win International Data Science Competition
Caltech Engineering and Applied Science faculty work at the edges of fundamental science to invent the technologies of the future.
Washington State Officials Mocked Vietnamese American Senator's Name
State Sen. Joe Nguyen, son of Vietnamese refugees, explained to HuffPost why his colleagues' jokes about his Asian name spoke to a larger issue.
This Is Your Brain on Price Bubbles
Colin Camerer is a pioneer in the study of how brain activity drives economic decisions.
Now Pay Attention, Dear Reader. No, Not to That Article, to This One.
The subject of attention is everywhere in publishing these days, spanning disparate genres from self help to satire to fiction.
Colin Camerer
“I just don’t think attention exists. The attention economy was this idea for hackneyed writers like myself to propose an artificial resource, and then create the sense of an artificial scarcity, to make people feel bad about themselves.”🤔🤦🏻♀️
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Mossimo Giannulli Told Blog About Faking Enrollment At USC To Get Parents' Money
Before he and wife Lori Loughlin were snared in the college admissions scandal, the fashion mogul told The Hundreds how he pulled a fast one as a young man.
Colin Camerer
College bribery dad scammed his own parents, yrs ago, by spending tuition $ in a business. How likely is it that he was a dirty businessman too (in fashion esp)? huffpost.com/entry/mossimo-… via @HuffPostEnt
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How Professional Gambler James Holzhauer Broke 'Jeopardy!'
James Holzhauer won a record $110,914 in a single game of 'Jeopardy!' by perfecting a playbook.
Venture Capital Is Putting Its Money in Astrology
The investment in Big Zodiac seems … preordained.
Colin Camerer
Helping form a bubble. Article has 0 stats on users, growth, 1 unsourced market size $, all positive quotes.
“Vardhana, a partner at Maveron and a Libra, said Co-Star has the potential to be as big as Spotify, worth $24 billion, or Tinder”. An investor?
5d
Defaults Are Not the Same by Default
A new meta-analysis reveals when and where one of behavioral science's most successful nudges works best (or not at all).
Why Panda Express is authentic Chinese food
The story of America’s biggest Chinese fast-food chain is as Chinese as it gets.
The Rematch: Bernie Sanders vs. a Clinton Loyalist
The blowup reflects ideological divisions among Democrats between a legacy Clinton organization and liberals trying to harness the energy of millennials.
Colin Camerer
The existence of this piece, and calling @neeratanden Mom for quotes on her daughter 🤔is so petty and Who cares?
6d
In search of perfect pastrami: Your guide to the Jewish delis of Los Angeles
Our guide to Los Angeles Jewish delis, both old school and new. Which ones are making the best pastrami sandwich, latkes, cheese blintzes and black and white cookies.
ProPublica and Partners Win Pulitzer Prize for MS-13 Coverage
Three articles in ProPublica’s “Trapped in Gangland” series on MS-13 by reporter Hannah Dreier won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.
Gaze bias differences capture individual choice behaviour
Simple choices are biased by looking behaviour. This work investigates individual differences in this gaze bias across four datasets and shows that gaze biases are variable and that their strength reliably predicts differences in individuals’...
SF board-and-care homes for seriously mentally ill shuttering as costs soar
One after another, the residences serving a vulnerable population are closing their doors. While housing values skyrocket and minimum-wage increases drive up staffing costs, state reimbursement rates to the homes have remained stagnant, forcing...