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05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5

rendered in two recent articles authored by Google Chief Economist Hal Varian. Varian asserts four uses that follow from computer-mediated transactions: "data extraction and analysis," "new contractual forms due to better... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

recent key events that have shaped the way economists think about these subjects. The events covered have a clear global perspective as the cases are set in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, as well as the United States. The cases... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

economics, primarily in the understanding of foreign aid, is also one of the few economists who studies issues of humanitarian and emergency assistance. One of his papers, on a refugee camp economy, has been accepted by the Journal of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

the idea that people will use a product or service more right after they pay for it. How can companies make this work for them? A: Sunk costs are a curious bit of psychology. Economists say that attending to sunk costs is not... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

12 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

their interconnected early history. Even the 18th century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the 19th, they paradoxically sought to make the world safe for “capitalists.” The word “socialists” was first used in Northern Italy as a term of contempt for the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

the practice of business strategy for 30 years. The problem lies instead in what strategic leaders are not trained to do. In caricature, Porter's view casts strategists as practitioner economists who expertly analyze and manage market... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

Tarun Khanna Abstract—In the patenting literature, economists and legal scholars have focused on the question of improving the quality of prior art available to patent examiners and mitigating the filing and granting of patents where... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

individuals. It is the journeys those people have made, and a brief glimpse of those journeys, that this book affords. Excerpt From Epilogue Of the Story Of American Business: From The Pages Of The New York Times Nancy F. Koehn, editor In 1942, the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

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