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Written By: The Homo Economicus on July 20, 2010 No Comment

Please, see it for yourselves:

http://www.princeton.edu/~dixitak/home/Elaine.pdf

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Written By: The Homo Economicus on March 6, 2010 No Comment

As an economist I believe in technology as a mean to increase productivity.

Blogaboutnothing.net is expanding its horizon to the Twitter world through http://twitter.com/tweetabtnothing. This will allow me to be more productive in the blogging business!

Tweets will appear in the blog, but don’t be scared about your mailboxes filling up – you won’t receive [...]

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Written By: The Homo Economicus on February 24, 2010 1 Comment
Economies of scale…

These New Yorkean couples decided to marry together in the same place using the same limo the same day…

These guys really know about economics.

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Written By: The Homo Economicus on January 16, 2010 No Comment

… you should watch the movie!

As the narrator says: “The magnificent book of humanity is now a film!”. Here is the trailer:

PS: Based on a true story…

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Written By: The Homo Economicus on January 7, 2010 No Comment

Happy new year everybody! Here is what we all were expecting: Jib Jab’s review of 2009… enjoy!

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Written By: The Homo Economicus on December 5, 2009 No Comment

Some marketing strategies for the big of hamburgers…

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Written By: The Homo Economicus on December 3, 2009 2 Comments

The kind of things you can learn in the Internet nowadays…

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/03/dany-bahar-appointed-as-new-lotus-ceo/

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Written By: The Homo Economicus on November 20, 2009 No Comment

President Chavez urged Venezuelans to take 3 minutes showers about three weeks ago. He even said he usually does so and he “doesn’t stink”.

I actually found a good guide for him to reduce his timing in shower. It involves a bit of research, as Kramer did once:

If you want to laugh a bit [...]

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Written By: The Homo Economicus on October 22, 2009 2 Comments

The names people have are endogenous: A new study in Germany shows evidence of teachers discriminating their students based on their name! You can access the study here.

Is this result very strong? Well, I don’t know. But one possibility is that are certain names more predominant among wealthier sectors of society, which usually [...]

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Written By: The Homo Economicus on September 28, 2009 1 Comment

Since we are approaching to Yom Kippur, the day of forgiveness according to Jewish faith, here comes an article that does that analysis from an economic point of view…

http://www.physorg.com/news172771680.html

Thanks to Cesar for the link!

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