The title is Behavioral Economics. But I am really using to post anything that I find interesting or useful, not necessarily related to behavioral economics, or economics at all. However, this being hosted by the university, I don't expect posting anything too personal here.
August 2006 - Posts
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http://www.zaobao.com/yl/yl060822_503.html 误读“快乐星球指数” 吴大地 近来，本地华文报章刊载了多篇有关快乐指数的文章。几乎毫无例外的，作者们都把英国新经济基金的“快乐星球指数”，与英国莱斯特大学的“世界快乐指数地图”相提并论。这实在是误解了“快乐星球指数”。 所谓“快乐星球指数”所测量的并不是各国人民“快乐”的程度。 这个指数的目的，在于比较各国将天然资源转化为人民的生活幸福与寿命的“效率”。 ... Read More...
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http://www.ims.nus.edu.sg/imprints/interviews/DanielMcFadden.pdf For full text of the interview, click on the above link from IMS. Some excerpts relevant for our module are reproduced below for ease of reference: I: Is behavioral economics a science? Read More...
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http://www.zaobao.com/special/china/taiwan/pages10/taiwan060416c.html ...教授什么都让我自己摸索 李远哲说：“记得刚开始和加州大学柏克莱分校化学系的Mahan教授从事有关光化学的研究时，每次当我向他请教一些有关研究的问题，他总是带着笑容说：远哲，我真的不知道怎么解决。如果知道的话，我早就解决了，也不要等你来做博士论文的研究，你自己想办法解决吧。 What's new? “后来，他每天到实验室总要问：What's new?(有什么新的东西？)。等我把前一天做的实验，详细告诉他后，他便问：What Read More...
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What is the optimal social distance between teacher and students, especially for teachers teaching a large class in a university that is becoming a research university? It's surely more than delta, epsilon... "...While once professors may have expected Read More...
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