AND WHY ARE THERE MORE MEN THAN WOMEN IN WESTERN US CITIES? Since seeing this map, Decision Science News can’t quite figure it out. Why do the surpluses of men and women look as they do? What’s up with California? Source of map: http://creativeclass.com/whos_your_city/maps/#The_Singles_Map
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Why are there more women than men in Eastern US cities?
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The .12 second search that saves hours at the airport
24 Jun 2009 | 5:48 amINFORMATION THAT AIDS TRAVEL DECISION-MAKING If you type the name of an airline and flight number into Google, it tells you the flight status information: For example, if one types “jetblue 301″, one gets Track status of B6 301 from Washington (IAD) to Fort Lauderdale (FLL) 24 Jun 2009 – On schedule Departed: 8:02 AM, Estimated arrival: 10:32 AM If one types “aa 59″, one gets: Track status of AA 59 from New York (JFK) to San Francisco (SFO) 24 Jun 2009 – 28 minutes late Departed: 8:06 AM, Estimated arrival: 10:46 AM The flight stats information seems to be… -
Postduke
15 Jun 2009 | 2:08 amPOSTDOC IN DECISION MAKING AT DUKE FUQUA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Since the job market for business school profs may be lousy this year, grad students might want to take note of this posdoctoral opportunity at Duke. Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business invites applications for a two year Postdoctoral Fellowship in the area of Behavioral Decision Making. The postdoctoral fellow will work with Dr. John Payne, Dr. Jim Bettman and Dr. Mary Frances Luce on work related to the impact of emotion on decision making. Planned projects include experimental laboratory research addressing the… -
SJDM 2009 Boston. November 20-23, 2009.
9 Jun 2009 | 5:35 am2009 MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING LOCATION, DATES, AND PROGRAM SJDM’s annual conference will be held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, MA during November 21-23, 2009. Early registration and welcome reception will take place the evening of Friday, November 20. Hotel reservations at the $175 Psychonomic convention rate can be made by clicking here.Conference fees are yet to be determined. Last year’s fees were $330 for members ($170 for students). Fees this year are anticipated to be the same or (possibly) lower. 2009 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The Society… -
Should we teach statistical rules of thumb?
4 Jun 2009 | 6:46 amTHE PROS AND CONS OF TEACHING HEURISTICS FOR STATISTICS All smart statisticians use rules of thumb. DSN has noticed that as soon as one statistician codifies or pronounces a rule of thumb, smart alecs come along with special cases that violates the rule thereby “proving” the rule and the person who articulated it “wrong”. (Smart alecs love to pretend that those who impart rules of thumb are so dumb as to believe that the rules work in all circumstances). DSN has noticed that Intro Stats students are hungry for rules of thumb. For instance, they want rules relating the…
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Brad Delong: Grasping Reality with Both Hands
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When in the Course of Human Events...
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links for 2009-07-04
4 Jul 2009 | 1:03 amMatt Taibbi: The Great American Bubble Machine The Mudflats » PALIN RESIGNS David Kurtz: Shorter Sarah Palin: Real Winners Quit Susan Crile: Chuck Grassley: If You Want Good Health Insurance, Work For The Government (VIDEO) John Quiggin: Against (micro)economic imperialism — Crooked Timber Lewis: The Man Who Crashed the World Statue of Liberty photoshopping contest - Boing Boing Marcy Wheeler: Howie Kurtz’s Latest Story: Weymouth Defends Pay2Play Scheme Paul Krugman: That ’30s Show Matthew Yglesias asks: How Many People Belong in the Labor Market? Michelle Goldberg: Is Sarah Palin a… -
Sarah Palin: Video
3 Jul 2009 | 7:34 pmSarah Palin: Sarah Palin Announces Resignation as Governor, Part 1; Sarah Palin Announces Resignation as Governor, Part 2. "It was four yeses, and one 'hell yes!'" An enormous amount of bulls--- here. But this sounded genuine: In fact, this decision comes after much consideration, and finally polling the most important people in my life - my children (where the count was unanimous... well, in response to asking: "Want me to make a positive difference and fight for ALL our children's future from OUTSIDE the Governor's office?" It was four "yes's" and one "hell yeah!" The "hell yeah" sealed it… -
Media Criticism: Scott Eric Kaufman Tears Brent Bozell into Shreds and Gobbets, and then Eats the Gobbets...
3 Jul 2009 | 5:25 pmScott Eric Kaufman, last seen in the Washington Post "claiming" to have a Ph.D. in English, tears Brent Bozell into shreds and gobbets, and then eats the gobbets. SEK: Sorry. SEK: And the Award for Missing the Point goes to...: ...Brent Bozell, of the ironically named “Media Research Center,” who refuted Oliver Stone’s comment that “Nixon always said Reagan was a dumb son of a bitch” by quoting a number of prominent figures in Reagan’s administration who thought Reagan was really smart... Bozell to Stone: “Nixon always said Reagan was a dumb son of a… -
Paying the Piper and Dancing the Tune
3 Jul 2009 | 5:11 pmThe investment banks want the Federal Reserve's lender-of-last-resort support without wanting its regulatory oversight. Sorry guys, it doesn't work that way. Emanuel Derman, via James Wilmott: Emanuel Derman's Blog: Are you bicestrian? You don't look bicestrian.: "So many riders in the Tour de France have been tossed out because of drugs, the overall leader is now a delivery guy from Empire Szechuan," joked David Letterman in 2007. Anyone who lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan knows what it's like to walk across Broadway when the sign says WALK and then narrowly escape being hit by a…
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the knackered hack
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the lie becomes the truth
26 Jun 2009 | 7:17 amSince I heard about social proof, and more specifically Joshua Bell’s famous busking experiment, I’ve wondered what in fact determines my own musical taste: how independent is it of others? Like anyone, I want to think I’m a free spirit. This may not be helpful, but the only sure example I have where I responded independently to a piece of music was Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean. I really did not like his music in the period up to 1983 for very particular reasons: Off the Wall had been played in our house for several years till it drove me up the wall. From what… -
you get to keep the positives
24 Jun 2009 | 6:55 amIt’s perhaps time to end this maudlin phase on the blog, but before we go up-tempo, here’s an excuse to post another picture of ’80s Soviet rock icon Viktor Tsoi. Nearly forgotten him had you? Newbies can start an excursion here to learn more about my chance encounter with Tsoi nearly a quarter century ago. I may be wrong but I believe this photo was taken on Kodachrome transparency film. I know I used a bit of Ektachrome in those days too, but I suspect this was 200 ASA, out of the red packet. Tuesday saw the demise of this much loved film brand. On a happier note, I… -
friday fractal ix
19 Jun 2009 | 9:12 amThere is now a cloud appreciation society. You may have heard about it on the radio a few weeks ago. They have named a new cloud — undulus asperatus — from the Latin, which roughly translates as “agitated waves“. And the roughness is what matters. They are highly disturbed, heralding a storm, and yet tend to disperse without one. The pictures above are nothing of the sort: just cumulus or perhaps nearer cumulonimbus. I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now, and it is true what they say: that some clouds do have a silver lining, though I’m… -
desert island disservice
10 Jun 2009 | 4:29 amOne of the most unanswerable questions you’re likely to be asked in a job interview is “Do you think you’re tough enough to stand up to Piers Morgan?” Unfortunately, I’ve had that question put to me. Several years ago, by dint of having the two words “managing” and “editor” next to one another on my CV, Trinity Mirror called me in to see them in the possibly mistaken belief that I could help dig them out of a very big hole indeed. I was pretty sure I could help in some way, but I think we had a different view of what type of hole they… -
we are what we lost
6 Jun 2009 | 9:37 amAcross Fleet Street from the Tipperary and up a narrow alley is Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese. I’ve been set up in that pub before now too. I’m old enough to remember it as a somewhat run-down labyrinth haunted by the last remaining hacks, before Fleet St was repopulated by accountants and bankers. The Cheese was refurbished. After that it was a principal hang-out for Goldman Sachs, whose European headquarters stands more or less next door. Don’t get me wrong: I still liked it. But my fondest memory of the Cheese is the first time I drank a porter beer: Samuel Smiths’…
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Good Decisions, Bad Decisions
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Decision Making and Organizational Transformation
16 Jun 2009 | 8:58 amTrue transformation is rarely accomplished through incrementalism alone. It requires specific resources to be allocated to transformative initiatives and the real trade-off is often between how to balance between supporting the base business and investing in change. Transformation requires more than expending 5% of current employees time on thinking about projects and initiatives to transform an organization. It requires specific people who can fully focus on understanding the benefits, costs, risks and opportunities that transformation can bring, then developing and proposing initiatives… -
Nutrisystem and Business Planning (What?) - Good Decisions Can Be Loaded with Bad Decision Potential
8 Oct 2008 | 2:21 amSo I went onto Nutrisystem 2 weeks ago. That's the diet plan that you set up where you get your food shipped to you -- breakfast, lunch, dinner. Dan Marino says it works, so I thought I'd give it a try.Now I'm not one of those typical 1-800 try me types. I don't have "thighmaster" or a bowflex. But this thing grabbed me for a few reasons. First of all, celebrity sponsorship (yup, I went for it). I grew up in Pittsburgh when Dan Marino was quarterbacking the Pitt Panthers and have followed his career. The picture of Dan after he had completed the Nutrisystem plan was pretty… -
What exactly is a "bad decision"?
30 Sep 2008 | 1:54 pmA decision that doesn't provide the desired outcome. What can lead to this?You didn't consider what the key factors to pay attention to are.You didn't get advice (or you did, but it came from someone with your exact outlook).You had no way to test out it to see how changing things would affect the outcome.You had poor logic.What are examples of bad decisions? There are all kinds of bad decisions made in different arenas such as politics, business, media, etc. We're going to focus on one topic at a time over the next few months and would appreciate any inputs you might have.A bad political… -
Decision Making, Feedback, and a Network View
5 Sep 2008 | 7:32 am[By Thomas Saaty]In sports team A beats team B, team B beats team C but team C beats team A. Does team A beat team C or C beat A? An individual prefers apples to oranges and oranges to bananas, but at the store he buys more bananas than apples, does he really prefer apples absolutely to bananas or with some hesitation, and why does he buy so many bananas then? Our logic requires categorical answers of yes or no to these questions.These examples show that things happen or are preferred with variable intensity and do not have categorical yes or no answers. What must we do to allow for such… -
Decision Making Involves these Concerns
30 Aug 2008 | 6:14 pmDecision making involves the following concerns:1. Creating a structure to represent all the factors in a decision and their influences and interactions2. Generating a set of alternatives and choosing the best one which involves:Measuring intangiblesSetting prioritiesCombining priorities across both tangible and intangible factorsPerforming sensitivity analysis3. Allocating resources to projects and alternatives. To do this we need to: Measure performanceOptimize the allocation4. Planning. In planning weDetermine the most likely outcomeFind policies to attain a desired outcomeIncorporate…
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WordPress Tag: Behavioral Economics
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Altruism against Predation
1 Jul 2009 | 10:03 amThis is a review of a recent article, cooperation in Defense against a predator, in the Journal of Theoretical Biology by Jozsef Garay of the Research Group of Theoretical Biology and Ecology of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Here’s the abstract: The origin and the evolutionary stability of cooperation between unrelated individuals is one of the key problems of evolutionary biology. In this paper, a cooperative defense game against a predator is introduced which is based on Hamilton’s selfish herd theory and Eshel’s survival game models. Cooperation is altruistic in… -
การตัดสินใจเชิงกลยุทธ์ ในกรณีรถเมล์ ๔,๐๐๐ คัน
30 Jun 2009 | 10:52 amการตัดสินใจเชิงกลยุทธ์ ในกรณีรถเมล์ ๔,๐๐๐ คัน สืบเนื่องจากสองสามวันนี้ผมได้มีโอกาสไปร่วมการสัมมนาเรื่องการสร้างฉากทัศน์ (Scenario forecasting) หรือก็คือการช่วยกันคาดการณ์สถานการณ์จำลองประเทศไทยในอีก ๕ – ๑๐ ปีข้างหน้า… -
On Anchoring, Pens, and Medicine
26 Jun 2009 | 4:21 pmIt turns out that even medical doctors are subject to the whims of irrationality and the phenomena of behavioral economics. This would come as no surprise to Nassim Taleb (whose next book I fear will not be very kind to the medical profession – http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htm), but is likely to be a bit disturbing to the rest of us who tend to be guilty of assigning god-like status to our physicians. If you ever wondered whether pharma companies are effective at influencing the behavior of doctors, please read the linked article below. The Ethical Taint of Post-It Notes… -
Confidence and advice
26 Jun 2009 | 8:50 amDan Ariely, Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University and a visiting professor at MIT’s Media Laboratory, tells us that a study proved that people “tend to seek advice from experts who exhibit the most confidence” (full article at http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/post.aspx?bid=355&bpid=23760). My comment: “The study is of course really important, but proves what is well known: if you appear confident you are more likely to trusted by people. What makes me think is that for every 10 people being confident without having content there should be at least 1… -
It's Time to Nudge our Employees
26 Jun 2009 | 8:13 amThe science of behavioral economics is readily available for deployment in the workplace. If we play a role in the health and retirement options available to our employees, we are “Choice Architects”. Listen to Professor Thaler describe the concept of “Nudge” and what it means to be a “Choice Architect“. Since Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness exploded onto the scene this summer, politicians in the United States and United Kingdom have embraced the book’s belief that with a gentle guidance from designers, employers, or…
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TierneyLab
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Rumsfeldian Stem Cells
2 Jul 2009 | 2:00 pmWhat is known and unknown about the potential uses of stem cell research. -
Random Quotes
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The Non-Evolution of God
2 Jul 2009 | 4:44 amThe changing image of God over time has nothing to do with natural selection. -
Hoopla, and Disappointment, in Schizophrenia Research
1 Jul 2009 | 2:10 pmHoopla for new research on the genetics of schizophrenia is misplaced. The findings dash cold water on the hope of finding a simple genetic basis for the illness. -
Picking a Modern 'Origin of Species'
1 Jul 2009 | 11:37 amWhat science book is most likely to be remembered 150 year from now?
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WordPress Tag: Decision Theory
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Of Dating and Decision Theories
12 Jun 2009 | 4:07 amImagine waiting in line to a scrumptious buffet table catering delicacies from all over the world – but that’s not what made it so special. It’s such an unusual buffet because you are given one hour to choose one dish, one meal from the table with which you could have for the rest of the evening. Of course, you’ll set out to pick the best of the lot but there’s a catch: in choosing you can only try only one meal at a time on your plate. To add to the challenge, not all meals will be available at all times; some dishes might fade away in only a few minutes, others might stay for an… -
The Power of Wolfram|Alpha - Instant Primary Research
9 Jun 2009 | 10:07 amInvestigating causal factors instantly is not only possible it’s GREAT! Check this graph out… think there’s a relationship? GM revenue vs US Carbon Emissions cool. very cool. -
The Foundations of Authoritarianism
31 May 2009 | 6:18 pmAs a consequence of your ancestors and mine having spent their lives living in small groups the Social Media world has great interest in Dunbar’s Number and natural human community size. Its been a concern long before the Internet however. Authoritarianism’s rise, which developed along with the move to organized agriculture from a hunter/gatherer existence thousands of years ago and persists in many places today, was due to: The loss of congruity between the social network (a hypothetical natural human community size related to Dunbar’s Number) and the social organism*… -
Self-Interest vs Altruism - Problems in Scaling the Decision Process
31 May 2009 | 5:59 pmBoth Self-Interest and Altruism are inherent motivations in humans and have established roles in evolutionary theory well supported by observation and controlled experiment. And examples of altruism extend across the biosphere: honeybees sacrificing themselves for the colony, vervet monkeys sounding loud alarms to warn of threats though it draws a predator’s attention to themselves, bats regurgitating blood meals for hungry companions… and soldiers storming Omaha Beach in Normandy. ( see Biological Altruism Stanford Encyclopoedia of Philosophy, revised Oct. ‘08) This was a… -
Miscellaneous on Status Updates, Distributed Intelligence & New Economies
31 May 2009 | 5:50 pmMany have realized that Twitter, Facebook or any other widely used system of Status Updatescould be useful for tracking possible infections and other trends, as well as having application in many other forms of group action and communication. (Sure enough, within an hour of posting, a friend over at the Brennan Center sent this link: http://www.google.org/flutrends/ And I recently saw a clever suggestion for keeping realtime track of buses in NYC! Apparently the city wants to implement a computerized system to keep track of where all their buses are but they can’t afford it. Someone…
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Strategic Thinking
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Kang Nam Returning to Port?, Don’t Celebrate too Quickly
1 Jul 2009 | 8:03 amYesterday the New York Timesreported that the Obama administration had judged that there was a high likelihood that the North Korean freighter, Kang Nam, was probably just leading the US on a wild goose chase. In other words, that the rusty ship probably had no illicit cargo onboard, and was hoping that it could draw the US or one of America’s allies into the embarrasing position of searching the boat only to find no booty. (See: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/world/asia/01sanger.html?hp) The US Navy has been tracking and monitoring the ship’s movements since it left North… -
Mr. Ahmedinejad, Your [One-Trick] Pony is Dead
30 Jun 2009 | 7:24 amThe Iranian “President”, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, in an interesting move, has called for an investigation into the death of Neda Agha-Soltan – the sweet-faced young lady that the world has been watching bleed out on the streets of Tehran on low resolution footage available through YouTube. I think there is a high probability that his course of action will blow up in the hairy faces of the Iranian leadership. Let me be the first to predict the investigation’s findings. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), possibly in conjunction with Britain’s MI-6,… -
Interesting Times: Iran, North Korea, and US Hegemony
25 Jun 2009 | 6:51 amIs Iran on the verge of a revolution? Can Kim Jong Un maintain power if his father transfers it to him in the near future? Are we seeing the leading indicators of America’s decline in conditions like debt that is completely out of control, failing business giants, the crippling costs of persistent asymmetric warfare, and looming unaddressed crises such as the mathematically infeasible pay-go social security system? What will the rise of massive high-growth emerging economies mean for world affairs? What will the world look like politically, economically, and diplomatically 3 months… -
Are We Learning the Right Lessons From the Financial Crisis?
22 Jun 2009 | 7:23 amWith respect to government culpability for the financial crisis, the primary lesson that people have taken away seems to be that the executive and legislative branches were just negligent and did not regulate businesses enough. That is, while business was actively at fault, the government was merely too passive. It is true that there were certainly specific areas in which the existing incentives created an economically unstable condition, and regulation (and 20/20 hindsight) might have negated the problem. For example, the recently proposed legislation to require loan originators to keep… -
A Strategic Approach to Ending Human Trafficking
19 Jun 2009 | 10:04 amSource: Kay Chernush for US State Department The State Department’s 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report was released on Tuesday (June 16, 2009.) The TIP is part of a laudable effort to fight one of the most heinous stains on the current state of humanity, which is that the buying and selling of human beings continues to take place around the world. Released with the report was an online photo album of pictures taken by Kay Chernush. Most of the photos, like the one above of a Nepalese mother in search of her daughter, show the human dimension of this injustice. The idea…
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WordPress Tag: Decision Making
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Community trust and effective decision-making
4 Jul 2009 | 8:10 amParticipatory design becomes real in a sense of community – creating community and building on the social fabric is essential for trust to emerge among stakeholders and towards the whole process. Trust in community and in the process makes effective participatory design. We are talking about social systems, but this understanding also applies to PD in IT, architecture, etc. In a community relationship, representative decision-making also only works when there is trust. Democracy today has a lot of representatives making decisions in the name of others and at some level this seems to be… -
The Simplest Question
3 Jul 2009 | 8:14 pmComplications. We LOVE them! I’m wrong, you say? Consider for a moment just how hectic our lives are. Take note of the plethora of emotions we experience on any given day. Did you know that we have upwards of 50,000 thoughts per day? Most of that ‘thinking’ takes place outside our awareness. Your subconscious mind, much like a tape player on an endless loop, is always emitting thought waves. The majority of those thoughts are repetitive. So, if those thoughts are not beneficial to your existence, they are probably complicating your life. In other words, if you keep thinking… -
Marketing Decision-making and Case Analysis
3 Jul 2009 | 4:48 pmSkill in decision-making is a prerequisite to being an effective marketing manager. Indeed, Nobel laureate Herbert Simon viewed managing and decision-making as being one and the same. Another management theorist, Peter Drucker, has said that the burden of decision-making can be lessened and better decisions can result if a manager recognizes that decision-making is a rational and systematic process and that its organization is a definite sequence of steps, each of them in turn rational and systematic. Just as decision-making and managing can be viewed as being identical in scope, so the… -
Freedom From Fear
3 Jul 2009 | 3:31 pm“Feel the fear and do it anyway.” How often have we heard that phrase? How often have we followed its advice? I know for me, fear has had a strong level control over my entire life. While considering what to write, I was immediately brought to a memory from a childhood experience that many of us have had…learning how to ride a two-wheeled bike. I recalled how I felt when it was time to take the training wheels off my bike. I remember wanting so badly to ride around freely like the other kids, but I was afraid to take those training wheels off. I was terrified that I would… -
True Decisions are Absolute when Making a New 'YOU'
3 Jul 2009 | 9:59 amThis thing about making a decision is so absolute, and so important, that if you qualify it then you really have not made a decision. What do I mean? Well, let’s say you “have made a decision” to lose weight, so today you will pig out and get started on your weight loss regimen tomorrow. Are you being honest with yourself? Do you really mean it? I submit you are not. Yet we all have been through similar experiences; in fact we even joke about it – like when we “make” New Year’s resolutions. Why am I harping on this point so much? Because it’s the first step on the…
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Kevin Hoffberg's Blog
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Rambling Through Irony and Why the Amish May Yet Save New York
3 Jul 2009 | 3:48 pmNew York is a deeply ironic place. Most of the state is rolling, rural, green, and beautiful. The Adirondack State Park is massive, historic, rugged, and four-season stunning. The Finger Lake region is a gem. The Catskills and surrounding country are a sylvan paradise. The state is also a financial basket case, and known around the world as the box that the Big Apple comes wrapped in. In fact, most people in permanent residence think Upstate means Westchester County and think Rochester is in Ohio, if only they could find Ohio. The New York State I grew up in had a vibrant and… -
Report From A Recent Trip to DC
3 Jul 2009 | 3:00 pmRecently I spent a couple of days in Washington, DC talking with some very connected people from both sides of the aisle. Some observations. The center of the world is most definitely DC. All the money is there and everyone who wants some of it is as well. More so than any other time I’ve been there (I went to school there and have spent a fair amount of time there). Those of us not there simply have no concept of how the center of power in the US has shifted even more profoundly to the federal government. Team Obama is biting off more than it can chew by a lot. Like many people, I… -
Barry Schwartz on the Paradox of Choice
17 Jun 2009 | 5:24 pmA very interesting talk by Barry Schwartz, who provocatively raises the question, is choice good? He thinks not. In Schwartz’s estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied. Here’s the book. The Paradox of Choice Barry Schwartz. Harper Perennial 2005, Paperback, 304 pages, $6.94 It’s all good theater but raises really profound questions, particularly as we enter the big national debate about rethinking health care (are we really ready, willing, and able to make choices beyond what day to go see the doc?) Blogged with the… -
Financial Markets Regulation a Case in Complex Decision Making
16 Jun 2009 | 11:37 amI am sure there will be lots for everyone to hate in the soon to be revealed Obama plan to regulate financial markets. But an article in the WSJ is intriguing for what it reveals about the mechanics of decision making. One heartening clue is that apparent search for alternatives before a final plan came forward. “We identified lots of options and we approached some of them with presumptive answers, but in a way nothing was nailed down until it was all nailed down because so much of this is interconnected and interrelated,” said Treasury Department Deputy Secretary Neal… -
Some Things Never Change: Oliver Cromwell’s Speech on the Dissolution of the Long Parliament
3 Jun 2009 | 5:21 pmThis is almost too good to be true. The comments are over 350 years old and pretty much settle the bill: Politicians have changed hardly at all. It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money. Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there…
