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Looking For Slides From My SXSW Talk?

March 16th, 2013 · No Comments
Music Biz

They are located at www.economistsdoitwithmodels.com/SXSW2013. Happy reading! Update: You can also hear the audio from the talk on SoundCloud here.

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When Economists Are Forced Off Script, TEDxPublicStreet Edition…

February 14th, 2013 · No Comments
Music Biz

Soooo…this video requires a bit of explanation. A few weeks ago, I gave a talk at TEDxPublicStreet, and the theme of the event was how people in different fields are working to make the world a better place. Pretty easy, right? Too bad I had what I will generously refer to as a flash of [...]

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What My Students Have Been Learning, Van Halen Edition…

October 5th, 2012 · 2 Comments
Contracts · Music Biz

In addition to teaching behavioral economics courses, I also teach a course for music industry students entitled “Contracts, Consumer Behavior, and Market Analysis” that is basically economics-y stuff for music kids. (I’m still working on getting Mick Jagger to come give a guest lecture.) I find it interesting (but not entirely surprising) that music types, [...]

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What I’ve Been Doing Over My Summer Vacation, Music Industry Edition…

August 31st, 2012 · No Comments
Administrative · Behavioral Econ · Music Biz

First my apologies for being light on the pasting as of late. Part of that is me being lazy (hey, it *is* summer, after all), but part of it is due to the fact that, via the obviously excellent judgment of Columbia University Press, I am working on not one, but two books on the [...]

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When Econ Nerds Write For Music Nerds…

May 4th, 2012 · 2 Comments
Behavioral Econ · Music Biz

I’ve given talks about consumer behavior and the music industry before, and I recently got the opportunity to write my first official article on the subject.  I figure if I’m going to be writing about the music industry, the Berklee Music Business Journal is a good place to start, right?  You can see the article [...]

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