Some folk like to read blogs. Some folk like to listen to podcasts. Why not give everyone the option to do what they prefer? Now it is possible to read or listen to many of the essays that appear in my IEEE Micro Economics column (and appear here in digitopoly). The IEEE deserves credit for …
Workshop Announcement on Scholarly Communication and Open Science
Just a conference announcement related to the Sloan Foundation program I co-direct ... for those interested. NBER Workshop on Scholarly Communication, Open Science and Its Impact This workshop is part of a Sloan Foundation program co-directed by Joshua Gans and Fiona Murray. This year's workshop will focus on scholarly communication, its incentives and the effectiveness …
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What a really good search engine would look like
[HT: Geekdad] Or what Facebook might do. Just don't ask about happiness.
Competition for Research on Smart Disclosure
Just an alert to interested people (especially grad students, current or newly minted) of a competition for proposals for research into smart disclosure. What is smart disclosure? "Smart Disclosure” policies help consumer markets work more competitively by providing decision-makers with convenient, computable, and cogent data--both about products or services and also about personal use patterns …
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