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Many economists know of the famous repeated prisoners’ dilemma experiments played by famous economists. I recently came across this old post from Brad Delong with an excerpt from Poundstone (1992) which recounts a game between Armen Alchian (who should win the Nobel Prize this year) and Rand economist John Williams. It includes comments in the margins [...]
Contributing Writer Jim Conaway gets the dirt, literally, on Napa Valley's organic wine business. The barn is old, red, and lovely, topped by a droll weathervane – an elongated frog in mid-jump – and surrounded by a riot of blooming...
Building on their previous success working with Passion Pictures’ Pete Candeland, Harmonix invited the director to helm the trailer for Rock Band 2, which takes the concept of the original Rock Band trailer and cranks it up to 11. The underlying idea for both trailers is similar to Shynola’s Queens of the Stone Age video for [...]
/PRNewswire/ Los Angeles, CA -- The Daniel Pearl Foundation today announced that Alison Krauss, the legendary country bluegrass fiddler and singer, has joined the Honorary Committee of the 7th Annual Daniel Pearl World Music Days (www.danielpearlmusicdays.org), a global network of performances to be held the entire month of October 2008, in the theme "Harmony for Humanity." ...
*Michael X: A Life in Black and White* 23rd October 7.00pm John Williams, the crime novelist and author of the classic Into The Badlands', will be discussing his newly released biography of Trinidadian migrant Michael X. Also known as Michael de Freitas and Michael Abdul Malik, Michael X was a small-time criminal, pimp, drug dealer and Black Power activist who ended up being convicted of a murder...
By Xin Lu About a year ago I wrote an article about the Consumer Price Index that made some friends say that I am a conspiracy theorist, but apparently I am not alone in believing that the government reports statistics that are far from reality. John Williams is an Oakland based economist who has been running the website Shadow Government Statistics for more than five years, and he reports an alternate...
by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Government puts first price tag on mega-bailout… just how much is $700 billion? The 5 goes to “the back of the envelope” for a frighteningly simple summary of debt incurred this year John Williams on what will be the real effects of the Fed’s mortgage-buying binge Dan Amoss with 4 [...]
"An Australian politician has used his first speech to parliament to call for unemployed idlers to be stung with a cattle prod to get them to work. John Williams, a former truck driver, shearer, farmer and small business owner who only took his place in the Senate on July 1, said he had seen many people living on employment benefits who were "determined not to work". "They are simply getting a free...
This Sunday, September 21st, I’m reading at the Babylon Public Library with Philip Postiglione and a possible appearance by Lynn Kozma. There will also be an Open mic. This is part of the Babylon Village Arts Council “Poetry in the Village” series. 24 S. Carll Avenue in Babylon Village. And last Friday of the month at 7:30 at Caffé Portofino, 249 [...]
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — A software grant that could lead to orthopedic surgeons being able to immediately gauge the effectiveness of implanted joints has been announced by LifeModeler, Inc. The company, a leading global provider of biomechanical human body simulation tools and services, will provide $400,000 of software and services to InMotion Musculoskeletal Institute and [...]
Siobhain Ryan; 19/9/08 The influential Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists is expected to call for a radical overhaul of irrigation and cuts to water allocations in the Murray-Darling Basin at a Senate inquiry in Canberra today. Wentworth Group director Peter Cosier and fellow members Bruce Thoms, John Williams and Mike Young will argue that irrigation allocations [...]
Itzhak Perlman, a great violinist and a famous and beloved figure in classical music, helped the Milwaukee Symphony open its 50th anniversary season at a gala concert Thursday evening at Marcus Center Uihlein Hall. Perlman played Beethoven's Vi...
