HOW GAME THEORY IMPROVES DATING APPS

Too much unwanted attention turns female users off online dating. Economics provides a solution

C. Wright Mills on the Personality Market

C.Wright Mills on the Personality Market and the interpersonal cash nexus

"Men are estranged from one another as each secretly tries to make an instrument of the other, and in time a full circle is made: one…Read More

The dollar’s international role: An “exorbitant privilege”?

Why is the dollar the most often-used global currency? Does the dollar’s international role unfairly advantage the United States, to the detriment of other countries? Does the dollar’s role magnify the effects…Read More

Better wisdom from crowds

The paper, “A solution to the single-question crowd wisdom problem,” is being published today in Nature. The authors are Prelec; John McCoy, a doctoral student in the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive…Read More

What is human capital, anyway?

"In essence, the idea of human capital wasn’t new. Adam Smith had pointed out long before how the skills and abilities acquired by workers (eg, training, education, etc) can add economic value to an enterprise.…Read More