#economics

https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a...

This is a sobering analysis of how "the poverty line" is calculated, and what it means. It's focuse...

https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-piz...

These services are, unquestionably, parasitical. They're another example get-in-the-middle-of-someo...

http://fusion.net/story/244545/famous-and-broke-on...

Interesting and saddening breakdown of the economics of internet fame.

http://interconnected.org/home/2014/12/30/city_lin...

Matt Webb on City Link and the future for companies like it and AirBnB and similar. I'm not as happ...

http://magicalnihilism.com/2014/06/20/maximum-happ...

This has sort of crystallised something for me. From where we currently stand, we can just about se...

http://danariely.com/2010/12/15/locksmiths/

Here's an interesting thing to think about, particularly in light of the fact, that at my company, f...

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrill...

It's one way of looking at MMOs (and related industries), I guess. I'm aware that Warcrack has a GP...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/osbo...

|I imagine a few of you have seen this, but still: a nobel prizewinning economist delivers his verdi...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14min...

Oh bollocks. Looks like Afghanistan is going to fucked for a very, very long time to come, because i...

http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/blog/2009/11/12/do-m...

According to the figures published by the Times, the answer is fairly clearly yes. There's a bit of...

http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?e...

Absolutely fascinating thinking. Cognitively speaking, there are only two scarce resources - bandwi...

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4062/125/

Hands up if you find this surprising. Right, you, you and you clearly haven't been paying attention...

http://www.withouthotair.com/download.html

I want to sit down and read this properly when I get time - an actual accessible book on the maths o...

http://whimsley.typepad.com/whimsley/2009/03/onlin...

Why recommendation engines are creating even more of a mononculture than we had beore, even though e...

http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

Steve Albini's breakdown of exactly how much a band can expect now to earn in a normal record indust...