If It’s Raining, You Might Want to Reschedule That Interview
It is no secret that weather affects mood, and even behavior. The Bagel Man we wrote about in Freakonomics, who ran an honor-system business, received lower payments during foul weather. Now along come Donald Redelmeier and Simon D. Baxter from the University of Toronto with an interesting question: do applicants to medical school suffer if they happen to be interviewed on a rainy day? Read More »
A Chinese Spit Crackdown
As the Associated Press reports, the Chinese city of Guangzhou has introduced a strong incentive to discourage spitting in public: residents lose their homes if they get caught spitting seven times within a two-year period. Read More »
What Are Economists Talking About?
O.K., this is a pretty crude analysis. But still, this year’s conference suggests to me that the economics profession is healing itself. Read More »
Quotes Uncovered: God or the Devil in the Details?
Each week, I’ve been inviting readers to submit quotations for which they want me to try to trace the origin, using The Yale Book of Quotations and my own research. Here is the latest round. Read More »
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