Archive for the 'economics' Category

Capturing Value in Global Networks: Apple’s iPad and iPhone [PDF]

Monday, December 26th, 2011

Interesting paper from UCI shows how the final $400 value of the iPhone is distributed. Interesting fact is that total value of manufacturing is about 10%

Capturing Value in Global Networks: Apple’s iPad and iPhone [PDF]

Monday, December 26th, 2011

Interesting paper from UCI shows how the final $400 value of the iPhone is distributed. Interesting fact is that total value of manufacturing is about 10%

Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? | Rolling Stone Politics

Monday, April 4th, 2011

“Financial crooks brought down the world’s economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them”
About feds “enforcement” efforts for economic crimes. An excellent article (needs aprox. 30 mins to read)

Lectures | Steve Keen’s Debtwatch

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

collection of lectures on economics from Steve Keen

Why credit money fails | Steve Keen’s Debtwatch

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

A lecture & slides from Steve Keen, explaining his version and reasons for the current economic crisis.

Laurie Santos: How Monkeys Mirror Human Irrationality | This Scientific Life

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Thinking in relative terms and “risk aversion” bias — TED presentation that shows that monkeys do that the same irrational biases that we humans do. (interesting, watch this if you can spare 20 min)

The different attitudes of computer scientists and economists – A Computer Scientist in a Business School

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

interesting article (and comments, yes, read comments) about what data models actually mean