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A few years ago, Al Roth published a wonderful book called Who Gets What and Why, that describes in a breezy and informal way the highly technical fiel…
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Back in 2015, when he was still FBI Director, James Comey had this to say about the unavailability of reliable and comprehensive data on the use of dea…
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While in New York on April 26th, I learned that my father was Covid-positive and in critical condition. His oxygen saturation had fallen to life-threat…
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Almost four weeks have elapsed since election day on November 3. The race was called on November 7, and the transition belatedly initiated on November …
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The Santa Fe Institute has just published a new volume called Complexity Economics, which collects together the talks and panel discussions from a symp…
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Welcome to Imperfect Information by Rajiv Sethi, Professor of Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University, External Professor at the Santa Fe Ins…
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As the COVID-19 virus tears through our bodies and our economy, policy makers are struggling to come up with a response that is bold enough to meet the…
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On Wednesday, October 30 there was an extraordinary conference at the Schomburg Center, marking the 75th anniversary of Gunnar Myrdal's American Dilemm…
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Well, it's Labor Day weekend, which means that Barnard and Columbia students are back on campus and classes are about to begin. This semester I'm teach…
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In 2013, with funding from the Institute for New Economic Thinking, University College London, Friends Provident Foundation, Azim Premji University (Ba…
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The death of Kenneth Arrow has led lots of people to swap stories about their interactions with him. Larry Blume has posted several of these on faceboo…
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There's not much one can say about Kenneth Arrow that hasn't already been said, but there's one personal story that I can add to all the tributes and r…
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