Alessandro Acquisti-The Economics of Privacy-Resources on financial privacy,economics,anonymity. This page provides links to resources on the economics of privacy, financial privacy, and the economics of anonymity: papers, people, related conferences, and other links.
Behind a privacy intrusion there is often an economic trade-off. The reduction of the cost of storing and manipulating information has led organizations to capture increasing amounts of data about individual behavior. The hunger for customization and usability has led individuals to reveal more about themselves to other parties. Six Feet Under: Mapping Tangled Transit Networks. Underground Maps Unraveled: Explorations in Information Design is a weighty volume, both rich in content and high in poundage.
The author, Maxwell J. Roberts, is a British psychologist who has conducted usability studies of underground rail system maps for over a decade. I also strongly suspect that he was a graphic designer in a former life. Roberts’ book provides a wealth of information that graphic designers, map aficionados, and public transport officials will find brilliant. The book is based on the premise that schematic rail transportation maps, as epitomized by Henry Beck’s groundbreaking diagrammatic 1933 London Underground map, help users more effectively navigate transit systems by simplifying tangled routes and interchanges into a clear gestalt.
Given this basic premise, the author has set forth to systematically explore methods for improving the design of diagrammatic transport maps. Henry Beck’s 1933 London Underground map. Different ways of mapping the Washington DC Metro. Clive Thompson on Why Kids Can't Search. Illustration: Tymn Armstrong We’re often told that young people tend to be the most tech-savvy among us.
But just how savvy are they? A group of researchers led by College of Charleston business professor Bing Pan tried to find out. Culture in Economics and the Culture of Economics: Raquel Fernandez in Conversation with The Straddler. Culture in Economics and the Culture of Economics: Raquel Fernández in Conversation with The Straddler On October 17, 2011, The Straddler met with Raquel Fernández at her office at NYU, where she is Professor of Economics.
Fernández has been a leader in the study of culture's impact on economic outcomes. Our conversation explored her work as well as her perspective on the strengths and limits of economics as a discipline. Fernández, October 17, 2011 The interaction between culture and economic outcomes did not exist as a legitimate area of work ten years ago. Inside TED: the smartest bubble in the world. 103inShare Jump To Close.
Who Made That Pantone Chip? New Delhi Bungalows, Even in Disrepair, Command Millions. Op-Ed Contributor - The Rise of the Machines. Before There Was a ‘Grand’ in Central. My Lost City by Luc Sante. Why Python, Ruby, and Javascript are Slow. Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World. In the Summer of 1995, a young graduate student in anthropology at UCLA named Joe Henrich traveled to Peru to carry out some fieldwork among the Machiguenga, an indigenous people who live north of Machu Picchu in the Amazon basin.
The Machiguenga had traditionally been horticulturalists who lived in single-family, thatch-roofed houses in small hamlets composed of clusters of extended families. For sustenance, they relied on local game and produce from small-scale farming. They shared with their kin but rarely traded with outside groups. While the setting was fairly typical for an anthropologist, Henrich’s research was not. Rather than practice traditional ethnography, he decided to run a behavioral experiment that had been developed by economists. The test that Henrich introduced to the Machiguenga was called the ultimatum game. Among the Machiguenga, word quickly spread of the young, square-jawed visitor from America giving away money. Advertisement — Continue reading below. M. Keith Chen. Is Medical School a Worthwhile Investment for Women? - Keith Chen & Judith Chevalier. The average female primary-care physician would have been financially better off becoming a physician assistant.
Brian Snyder/Reuters Over the last quarter century, women have been earning college and professional degrees in record numbers. In 1976, women earned only 45 percent of bachelor's degrees in the United States; by 2006 that had increased to 58 percent. During that same interval, women have made even larger gains in advanced degrees. For example, in 1976 women constituted only 24 percent of first year medical students. Despite these gains in education, a number of recent studies find that women's incomes lag those of men. This raises two interesting and uncomfortable questions. In a study being published this month in the Journal of Human Capital, we try to shed light on these questions by looking closely at doctors in primary-care fields and a plausible alternative career for anyone entering medical school -- Physician Assistants. Www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/summer2007/Crit_Thinking.pdf.
Econometrica, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Jan., 1982), pp. 97-109. JSTOR: Film Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 1 (Autumn, 1998), pp. 31-34. A Critical Discussion on the Art of Video Gaming. Pippin Barr, “The Artist Is Present” game screen shot (image courtesy moma.org, click to enlarge) It’s a sunny Friday morning in midtown Manhattan, and at the education building of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the second day of the conference “Critical Play — The Game as an Art Form” begins its debates.
I’m no video gaming expert, but with 50 other physical attendees and many more over live stream, I vow to learn how video games can be better understood within an art context, as they’ve been the new art frontier for some time.