Competition in the Digital Age
After years of seeming missteps (e.g., Google Plus, Google Glass, Google Wave, Google Keep), Google roared back yesterday with a new Photos service. This seems pedestrian in terms of Google's usual ambitions but actually it is incredibly on mission; that is, if Google's mission is to organise the world's information. The new service is billed …
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John Nash passed away yesterday. He was killed, along with his wife, in a taxi accident. Nash is not a figure who had a recent and continual impact on economics but he is perhaps the person who had the single idea with the most important impact on economists of anyone. That idea was equilibrium or …
Yes and no. I raise this issue today because of the extract from a soon to be released book, Losing the Signal: The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff that appeared in the Wall Street Journal. I happen to have read this book for a forthcoming review of it in …
From my twitter feed at the annual American Economic Association meetings, we knew it was coming: Paul Romer (the founder of endogenous growth theory) had levelled an attack on many macroeconomic theorists including his advisor Bob Lucas. The nature of this attack would have to arrive in May when the article appeared in the American …
What is the economic value of online behavioral data? It is a seemingly simple question. Define the terms. Behavioral data refers to information produced as a result of actions, typically commercial behavior using a range of devices connected to the Internet, such as a PC, tablet, or smartphone. Behavioral data tracks the sites visited, the …
So I have had the Apple Watch for a week. "Of course you have," you may say. But my spouse has had it too and she is not one to adopt things early. That may assure readers that perhaps some more objectivity may come with this review. I waited a week so that I could …
Many of the targeted behavioral responses to climate change involve reducing energy consumption. This makes sense as the majority of energy consumed (pretty much throughout all history) has involved burning of fossil fuels, and this, in turn, is responsible for the ridiculous buildup in greenhouse gases, notably CO2. So the main thrust of smart climate …
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