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Hey, RIAA and MPAA, Time to Shift Gears
Entertainment companies should stop policing illegal downloading by college students, Joseph Storch argues, and head to the new frontier: the mobile device as all-purpose media-access machine.
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Ask the Administrator: What Makes a Good Job Talk?
A new correspondent writes: I wonder if you'd consider posting a query to your readers about job talk expectations at...
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A longer story than that
I recently started getting daily environmental digests from ScienceDaily. Each newsletter has more items in it than I have time...
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Milestones
The Boy and The Girl are hitting new milestones. Last week we took them to a local park, where Santa...
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International Study Shouldn't Be Elective
Every American decade has its archetypes. If you were heading off to business school in the 1980s, you might have...
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Math Geek Mom: Ready, Set, Interview!
We economists have great respect for “markets”, the interaction of buyers and sellers of some good or service. While sometimes...
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Guilt as a motivating force
Elizabeth Coffman posted a nice discussion on the guilt(s) associated with bicoastal marriages involving children. The "mommy guilt" and also...
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The Economic Collapse and Educational Values
Ralph Hexter sees similarities between the reward structures of the business world and the college world -- and thinks academics should offer a different model.