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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Discrimination'
Before You Go Locking Up All Of Those “Crazy” People…
February 17th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Discrimination · Econ 101 · Fun With Math
Tags: Discrimination · Econ 101 · Fun With Math
Follow Up: I Can’t Afford To Save Money At Costco…
July 17th, 2009 · 9 Comments
Discrimination · Follow Ups · Policy
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
I Can’t Afford To Save Money At Costco…
June 12th, 2009 · 14 Comments
Decision Making · Discrimination · 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
T-Mobile Nicely Illustrates My Life’s Work…
May 27th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Advertising · Discrimination · Gender · Just For Fun
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
Confirmation Bias (And Stereotypes) In Action…
May 26th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Behavioral Econ · Discrimination · Gender
Sometimes the posts write themselves, really. From a Facebook reader:
“I was totally surprised to see a girl pic when I got to this page! I came across your writing today for the first time and after a few articles I imagined a dude writing them… I guess that just shows how some people (maybe [...]
Tags: Behavioral Econ · Discrimination · Gender