Articles 2024
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How Modernism Got Its Curves
A look at the extraordinary career of designer Eva Zeisel. A slideshow essay
Slate, August 31, 2005
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Adding Social Norms to the Usual Methodology Mix
The New York Times, "Economic Scene", August 11, 2005
A restaurant on Honolulu's main drag is soliciting new workers. "Looking for Aloha Spirited People," says the help-wanted sign in the window.
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That Long Drive Out to the Airport
The Wright Amendment, whose existence rarely fails to shock out-of-towners, highlights the least attractive aspect of Dallas-area politics and economics: the prevalence of crony capitalism.
D Magazine, August 2005
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Market Share
Economists have long used their tools to analyze social phenomena. Now sociologists are learning to stop worrying and love -- or at least study -- the market.
The Boston Globe, July 22, 2005
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Research Changes Ideas About Children and Work
The New York Times, "Economic Scene", July 14, 2005
When Americans think about child labor in poor countries, they rarely picture girls fetching water or boys tending livestock. Yet most of the 211 million children, ages 5 to 14, who work worldwide are not in factories. They are working in agriculture -- from 92 percent in Vietnam to 63 percent in Guatemala -- and most are not paid directly.
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One Possible Cure for the Common Criminal
The New York Times, "Economic Scene", June 16, 2005
When Jonathan M. Klick worked in Washington, he noticed a striking effect every time the terrorism alert level went from its usual yellow ("elevated") to the more urgent orange ("high").
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Consumer Vertigo
A new wave of social critics claim that freedom’s just another word for way too much to choose. Here’s why they’re wrong.
Reason, June 2005
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Mass Medium
Forbes, May 22, 2005
Something about blogs makes a lot of respectable journalists hyperventilate. News pros seem terribly threatened by online amateurs.Blogging is a "solipsistic, self-aggrandizing, journalist-wannabe genre," writes David Shaw in the Los Angeles Times. Shaw, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for his media criticism, declares that bloggers are "practitioners of what is at best pseudo-journalism" and that "many bloggers--not all, perhaps not even most--don't seem to worry much about being accurate." (Emphasis added.)
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Another View of News Bias, as Selling Point
There is a widespread belief that the media are biased, but good journalism is not easy to define.
The New York Times, "Economic Scene", May 18, 2005
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Gadgets and Glamour: Let's Make Some Magic, With No Strings Attached
The New York Times, May 03, 2005
WIRELESS technology has always had a glamorous aura. The word "glamour," after all, originally referred to a magic spell, an illusion that makes things look different from what they really are.