Norms-Based Intellectual Property Systems: The Case of French Chefs(2008)

Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming (2002) [pdf]

Becoming a mod (at least on Stack Exchange) significantly improves job mobility, and may also lead to salary increases.

Making songs available for user-generated content on Youtube stimulates demand on streaming services like Spotify – but only if the artists are relatively unknown

A new study reviews COVID 19 vaccine mandates for employees in elderly care homes

Restrictions on high-skilled immigration lead to greater offshoring. For every H-1B visa rejection, companies hire 0.4 employees abroad.

[Experiment] The impact of political polarization: Ingroup-love occurs in the perceptional domain (how close one feels toward others), whereas outgroup-hate occurs in the behavioral domain (how one helps/harms/cooperates with others)

Even chess experts perform worse when air quality is lower, suggesting a negative effect on cognition

Good middle managers matter a lot for a company's success, a study of auto assembly plants shows

Peer awards motivate creative content, study on reddit finds

Many people believe a $299 monthly auto loan payment is significantly less than a $300

Study shows that bank loans to firms run by CEOs who fly private jets as a hobby tend to incur a higher cost of debt, as banks perceive such firms as having a higher default risk.

Oregon's prohibition on noncompete agreements (NCAs) for low-wage workers led to higher wages for low-wage workers, possibly by as much as 21%.

Taxi Drivers Take Longer Routes Than Uber Drivers

Startup entrepreneurs who were taught to think like scientists (rather than taught to follow their business intuition) perform better, are more likely to pivot to a different idea, and are not more likely to drop out (relative to the control group) in the early stages of the startup

Services like Craigslist allow for buyers and sellers in local markets for used goods to connect more easily, potentially diverting waste from landfills

Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming (2002)

Facts and figuring: collaboration is most beneficial when gathering facts