stickman's corral

 [Rather irritatingly, I wrote the below post at the end of last week and had been meaning to publish it on Monday. Unfortunately, I got sno...

Not really. But I still enjoyed reading the following passage from Andrei Shleifer's review of Daniel Kahneman's (superb)  Thinking...

I mentioned the other day that I acted as moderator for the recent  TEDxBergen conference. Videos of the various talks have now been posted...

Or a "bloggist" for that matter. Here and here . To be fair, Taleb has charged that many minds superior to my own are beset b...

3:59.4 Roger Bannister's four laps of the Iffley Road Track on 6 May 1954 have been immortalised in the annals of sporting lore and hu...

I read an interesting article last night, detailing a  public exchange between Daniel Kahneman and Nassim Taleb . [E]ach man was asked to ...

..., spirituality and co-operation by the psychologist Jonathan Haidt. My economist self was particularly interested in his thoughts on free...

Mark Thoma links to a study discussing the limits -- or "origins" might be more correct -- of free will. I'll just highlight...

... And simple allegorical stories to help our intuitive understanding of economic concepts. Here is an excerpt : I posted a link to Bryan C...

I should really be studying... but my attention has been drawn to several articles and interviews over the last few weeks that coincide wit...

Slightly later than planned... Here is the second example of a little maths helping to improve our analysis of a real economic problem ...

And by "monkeys" I really mean "altruistic chimpanzees", but I'm a sucker for alliteration... I stumbled on a rea...

Those of you paying attention may have noticed that I yet to deliver on my promise to provide a second economic-maths example. Apologies for...

[UPDATE: The situation has been (partially) resolved. Not so much an apology, but at least acknowledgement that I am probably not a backpack...