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This was the conversation in my household the other day while watching The Daily Show:
Jason Jones, on TV: We’ve made great strides in eradicating prejudice in this country…but, according to University of Texas economist Daniel Hamermesh, one part of society is still suffering in ways we never imagined…
Me: Ugly people.
Daniel Hamermesh, on TV: Ugly [...]
Tags: Books · Discrimination · Policy
I decided a long time ago that I didn’t want an academic career, at least in part because I didn’t want to deal with the whole tenure process. (For the record, academia may look all relaxed and thoughtful and tweed-jackety from the outside, but a lot of departments are way more cutthroat and political [...]
Tags: Discrimination · Econ 101 · Fun With Math
Last month I wrote about how it is actually kind of expensive to be poor. This is clearly not helpful when the goal of a lot of policy is to help poor people stop being poor, or at least to be less poor.
A reader friend of mine (thanks Dan L) noted that [...]
Tags: Discrimination · Follow Ups · Policy
A friend forwarded me an article that made me think of the title of this post. I think the “can’t afford to save money at Costco” thing was popular to say a few years ago, and it makes a surprising amount of sense. In theory, you are getting a good deal by buying [...]
Tags: Decision Making · Discrimination · Policy
I think I might be the only person to use my Tivo for the express purpose of watching commercials rather than skipping them. It’s my version of stopping to smell the roses, really…and if I hadn’t stopped, I wouldn’t have stumbled upon the following advertisement from T-Mobile, which really did speak to me (video [...]
Tags: Advertising · Discrimination · Gender · Just For Fun
