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[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Habtic Standard: I wrote another article! This one is about why organizational change is hard and how it can be made less bad for workers…and it’s totally 100 percent not based off of personal experience I swear 🙂

I few weeks ago I was approached to write an article about “game theory and organizations”…I wasn’t quite sure what to talk about at first, but then I realized that managers play “games” with their employees every time them implement any type of inventive system (or promotion system, for that matter!). So let’s think about the different factors we should think about when structuring incentives in the workplace, both to maximize profitability but also to do right by workers…

[unable to retrieve full-text content]YOU GUYS CHECK OUT THE HOVERTEXT ON THE SITE…

Also, more commentary here.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]YOU GUYS CHECK OUT THE HOVERTEXT ON THE SITE…

Also, more commentary here.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]You Have Questions About Textbook Prices, I Have Answers…: An explainer, just in time for students who are pissed off about textbook prices…

[unable to retrieve full-text content]You Have Questions About Textbook Prices, I Have Answers…: An explainer, just in time for students who are pissed off about textbook prices…

[unable to retrieve full-text content]On the Revival of the “Quarterly Capitalism” Discussion: I’m definitely not screaming “YES YOU HAVE A POINT THAT’S WHY HILLARY BROUGHT IT UP YEARS AGO” into a pillow…

[unable to retrieve full-text content]On the Revival of the “Quarterly Capitalism” Discussion: I’m definitely not screaming “YES YOU HAVE A POINT THAT’S WHY HILLARY BROUGHT IT UP YEARS AGO” into a pillow…

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Here are the Victims of Insider Trading, Hope I Didn’t Keep You Waiting Too Long: It’s official, we’re in a place where I have to actively counter “actually insider trading is just a victimless crime” takes…

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Here are the Victims of Insider Trading, Hope I Didn’t Keep You Waiting Too Long: It’s official, we’re in a place where I have to actively counter “actually insider trading is just a victimless crime” takes…

[unable to retrieve full-text content]My Interest In The New Goldman Sachs CEO Goes Pretty Much Exactly As You Would Expect…: you see a funny human-interest story, I see a scenario that is potentially helpful for research purposes…

[unable to retrieve full-text content]My Interest In The New Goldman Sachs CEO Goes Pretty Much Exactly As You Would Expect…: you see a funny human-interest story, I see a scenario that is potentially helpful for research purposes…

[unable to retrieve full-text content]I think people might be starting to catch on to the perils of academic publishing…

So does this count as regulatory capture or a form of publication bias?

[unable to retrieve full-text content]I think people might be starting to catch on to the perils of academic publishing…

So does this count as regulatory capture or a form of publication bias?

[unable to retrieve full-text content]What The Brady Bunch Can Tell Us About Housing Market Dynamics: These comparisons ended up being way more interesting than I had anticipated…

[unable to retrieve full-text content]What The Brady Bunch Can Tell Us About Housing Market Dynamics: These comparisons ended up being way more interesting than I had anticipated…

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Causal Friday: The Dumbest Differences-in-Differences Ever, Viral Video Edition…: I have to admit, I kind of feel like my super nuanced efforts to tease out non-obvious cause and effect were a little wasted…

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Causal Friday: The Dumbest Differences-in-Differences Ever, Viral Video Edition…: I have to admit, I kind of feel like my super nuanced efforts to tease out non-obvious cause and effect were a little wasted…

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Experimental Pitfalls Are Generally Dumber Than We Imagine, Now With More Dogs: hopefully the story is interesting in itself, but honestly it’s mainly an excuse for the dog video at the end.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Experimental Pitfalls Are Generally Dumber Than We Imagine, Now With More Dogs: hopefully the story is interesting in itself, but honestly it’s mainly an excuse for the dog video at the end.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]How Monopsonies Work, Now With More Numbers…: Apparently a graph is worth…*checks post stats* 1176 words, but I’m guessing this makes more sense to most normal people.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]How Monopsonies Work, Now With More Numbers…: Apparently a graph is worth…*checks post stats* 1176 words, but I’m guessing this makes more sense to most normal people.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Economist Beverages Just Got A Major Upgrade…: Happy Friday! You will probably not find it surprising that I am into basically anything that combines economics, bad puns, and booze.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Economist Beverages Just Got A Major Upgrade…: Happy Friday! You will probably not find it surprising that I am into basically anything that combines economics, bad puns, and booze.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]July 4th May Be Over, But The Fireworks Discussions Continue…: you: yay a day off let’s do some fireworks

me, economist: OMG YOU’RE DOING FIREWORKS TOTALLY INEFFICIENTLY LET ME EXPLAIN

[unable to retrieve full-text content]July 4th May Be Over, But The Fireworks Discussions Continue…: you: yay a day off let’s do some fireworks

me, economist: OMG YOU’RE DOING FIREWORKS TOTALLY INEFFICIENTLY LET ME EXPLAIN

[unable to retrieve full-text content]So Do We Still Have Unions Now or No? Economics Can (Sort of) Answer That!: I guess it’s not teribly often that behavioral economics can be comforting rather than infuriating, so here you go…

[unable to retrieve full-text content]So Do We Still Have Unions Now or No? Economics Can (Sort of) Answer That!: I guess it’s not teribly often that behavioral economics can be comforting rather than infuriating, so here you go…

[unable to retrieve full-text content]I Told You My TV Watching Habits Extend Past Law And Order…: I’m just waiting for a time where there’s an economics category when I’m visiting my parents because IT IS ON…