Archive for October, 2007
The Dull Compulsion of the Economic (#11)
A series of blog entries by D&S collective member Larry Peterson. With all the turmoil on the markets over the past week, a bit of attention has been diverted from the labor unrest taking place in France. Last Thursday, transport, electricity and gas unions led a one-day strike against the new Sarkozy government’s attempts to ...Read more.
The Dull Compulsion of the Economic (#10)
A series of blog entries by D&S collective member Larry Peterson. The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded Monday to three Americans (one Russian-born) for their work on “Mechanism-Design Theory.” The three, Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson, developed sophisticated mathematical models derived from game theory in an attempt to reveal rules and conditions ...Read more.
The Dull Compulsion of the Economic (#9)
A series of blog entries by D&S collective member Larry Peterson. A couple of weeks ago I went to see my dad for his birthday, and there I came across an article in Newsweek from May (for some reason, Dad keeps issues from months ago strewn around the living room, while more recent issues are ...Read more.
