Pinboard: bookmarks for bradbarrish tagged 'economics'

The essential thing to understand about small payments is that users don’t like being nickel-and-dimed. We have the phrase ‘nickel-and-dimed’ because this dislike is both general and strong.

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march 2009 by bradbarrish

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How did the web lose faith in charging for stuff? - (37signals)

It seems that the web has been so thoroughly infected by the memes of “the future is free”, “we’ll all live from ads”, “VC money will get us there”, and “acquisition is nirvana” that it has almost lost its faith in the simpler ways.

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march 2009 by bradbarrish

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The Music Industry's New Internet Problem - BusinessWeek

And the buck gets passed again. *sigh*

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march 2009 by bradbarrish

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The reasons why we stop | Fabchannel Blogpages
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march 2009 by bradbarrish

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RSS Hits the Big Time (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
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march 2009 by bradbarrish

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The Economy According To Mint

Looking across spending as a whole in 2008, we can see a phase change beginning in the summer. After a bump in the May/June time frame from tax refunds and credits, we see spending declined by $400 / month / household. Spending eroded even further (a $200 drop) in November along with consumer confidence, bouncing back only slightly for the holidays.

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january 2009 by bradbarrish

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Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

I think I've actually bookmarked this before, but it's a great article to check out.

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december 2008 by bradbarrish

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The End of Wall Street's Boom - National Business News - Portfolio.com
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november 2008 by bradbarrish

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The Sequoia “RIP: Good Times” presentation: Here it is » VentureBeat
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october 2008 by bradbarrish

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SHOW®/WORLD - A New Way To Look At The World
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october 2008 by bradbarrish

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Indie rock wizards | Free exchange | Economist.com

Our cultural consumption exists on a spectrum from "individual" to "collective". Technology has shifted the balance for both books and music.

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july 2008 by bradbarrish

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I, Cringely . The Pulpit . The Next Killer App | PBS

Telepresence may come to your house next year.

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august 2007 by bradbarrish

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The Frontal Cortex : Don't Read the Business Page

Instead of focusing on the important variables - the actual movement of share prices - the "high-information" students would become fixated on the latest rumors and insider gossip.

economics information culture investing
august 2007 by bradbarrish

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Uzodinma Iweala - Stop Trying To 'Save' Africa - washingtonpost.com

I hope people will realize Africa doesn't want to be saved. Africa wants the world to acknowledge that through fair partnerships with other members of the global community, we ourselves are capable of unprecedented growth.

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july 2007 by bradbarrish

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‘More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics’ - New York Times

You've read elsewhere about the sin of promiscuity. Let me tell you about the sin of self-restraint.

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july 2007 by bradbarrish

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CorpWatch : Index
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july 2007 by bradbarrish

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Vox Pop: Have you tried outsourcing your life? | 43 Folders

You identify the tedious tasks in your life that don’t represent the best use of your time, and assign them to an overseas worker who can complete them for a few bucks an hour.

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june 2007 by bradbarrish

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Bush's war on Whole Foods. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine

The government's crazy effort to stop the organic chain from buying a competitor.

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june 2007 by bradbarrish

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"For sale by owner" web sites can generate higher prices than Realtors

Three economists decided to investigate whether using a for sale by owner (FSBO) web site could actually make homeowners more money compared to selling a house with a traditional real estate agent. The answer, at least in Madison, Wisconsin, is yes.

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june 2007 by bradbarrish

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Music CD, I'm just not that into you

There's much to and fro about what's behind the drop. The industry as always wants to blame piracy. Critics want to blame poor quality of product, bad marketing tactics and digital rights restricting technologies

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june 2007 by bradbarrish

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Class Matters - Social Class in the United States of America - The New York Times
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june 2007 by bradbarrish

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Graphic: How Class Works - New York Times
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june 2007 by bradbarrish

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The Realignment of America

The native-born are leaving "hip" cities for the heartland.

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may 2007 by bradbarrish

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What should you pay for a house?

Rent and interest are the same kind of thing. They are what you pay to use something -- either to use a house, or to use money. To know whether to buy, you just have to compare one option to the other.

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april 2007 by bradbarrish

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How to Avoid Debt Slavery

Most people are too busy to stop and evaluate their life objectively—this causes many people to hasten down the road to misery, and wonder "What happened?" when they arrive there.

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march 2007 by bradbarrish

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Coding Horror: The cost of leaving your PC on
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february 2007 by bradbarrish

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Study: P2P effect on legal music sales "not statistically distinguishable from zero"

A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the recording industry.

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february 2007 by bradbarrish

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The 13 Most Overlooked Tax Deductions - Kiplinger.com

Don't let an oversight force you to overpay your taxes. Here's a baker's dozen of deductions that you could easily miss or never realize you were entitled to take.

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february 2007 by bradbarrish

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Privately, Hollywood admits DRM isn't about piracy

For almost ten years now I have argued that digital rights management has little to do with piracy, but that is instead a carefully plotted ruse to undercut fair use and then create new revenue streams where there were previously none.

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january 2007 by bradbarrish

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