- Doomsayers Keep Getting It Wrong on Higher Minimum Wages By Barry Ritholtz, BloombergView, October 21, 2016
- Liberals Compete for the Soul of Economics By Noah Smith, BloombergView, October 21, 2016
- Smart Contracts Don’t Have to Be Dumb By Elaine Ou, BloombergView, October 21, 2016 [The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics was given earlier this month to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom for work on contract theory, of which -- sad to say -- I know very little. In this article, a "blockchain engineer" in a financial technology company says that Hart's work helps in the design of "smart contracts", which she defines as "software that secures a relationship over a computer network."]
- Universal basic income for India By Vijay Ramchandra Joshi, Ideas for India, October 21, 2016
- Nobel prize in Economics 2016: The economy as a nexus of contracts By Maitreesh Ghatak, Ideas for India, October 19, 2016
- Nobel insights: When it comes to contracts, what’s obvious may not be optimal By Rohini Somanathan, Ideas for India, October 18, 2016
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Notable: October 22, 2016
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