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Goodhart’s Law and Why Measurement is Hard

ribbonfarm.com/2016/06/09/goodharts-law-and-why-measurement-is-hard/

• management, tag
• metrics, tag
• measurement, tag
• economics, tag
• data, tag
• analytics, tag
• ·4 years ago

Goodhart's law - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

• economics, tag
• statistics, tag
• metrics, tag
• bias, tag
• ·4 years ago

The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs

currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free/

<p>The political economy of bullshit.</p>

• journalism, tag
• economics, tag
• media, tag
• opinion, tag
• newspapers, tag
• ·4 years ago

Why your government isn't acting on the Corona/COVID-19 threat

ma.ttias.be/government-act-corona-covid-19/

• healthcare, tag
• economics, tag
• strategy, tag
• ·4 years ago

Why Are Rich People So Mean? | WIRED

wired.com/story/why-are-rich-people-so-mean/

• money, tag
• economics, tag
• psychology, tag
• society, tag
• culture, tag
• ·5 years ago

“Birmingham isn’t a big city at peak times”: How poor public transport explains the UK’s productivity puzzle | CityMetric

citymetric.com/transport/birmingham-isn-t-big-city-peak-times-how-poor-public-transport-explains-uk-s-productivity

• economics, tag
• cities, tag
• public_transport, tag
• birmingham, tag
• planning, tag
• ·5 years ago

The Perfect Irony That ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Film Was Also a Real-Life Scam - MEL Magazine

melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-perfect-irony-that-the-wolf-of-wall-street-was-also-a-real-life-scam

• finance, tag
• crime, tag
• corruption, tag
• economics, tag
• ·5 years ago

Opinion | The Economics of Soaking the Rich - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2019/01/05/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-tax-policy-dance.html

• economics, tag
• politics, tag
• inequality, tag
• taxes, tag
• society, tag
• US, tag
• ·5 years ago

La tragédie des communs était un mythe | CNRS Le journal

lejournal.cnrs.fr/billets/la-tragedie-des-communs-etait-un-mythe

La propriété commune d’une ressource conduit nécessairement à la ruine de celle-ci, concluait en 1968 un biologiste dans la revue Science. Son article, « La tragédie des communs », a façonné les raisonnements économiques et politiques de ces dernières décennies. L’historien Fabien Locher nous expose les enjeux de ce débat et en souligne les limites dans le cadre d’une pensée de l’environnement. Ce Point de Vue fait partie du Top 10 des articles les plus lus sur notre site cette année...

• lang:fr, tag
• economics, tag
• politics, tag
• commons, tag
• sharing, tag
• ·6 years ago

The cashless society is a con – and big finance is behind it | Brett Scott | Opinion | The Guardian

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/19/cashless-society-con-big-finance-banks-closing-atms

• money, tag
• surveillance, tag
• finance, tag
• ATM, tag
• cash, tag
• economics, tag
• ·6 years ago

Will Robots Take My Job?

willrobotstakemyjob.com/

• automation, tag
• future, tag
• ai, tag
• work, tag
• career, tag
• economics, tag
• ·7 years ago

Damn Interesting

damninteresting.com/

A collection of fascinating true stories from history, science, and psychology. In text and podcast form.

• blog, tag
• psychology, tag
• history, tag
• science, tag
• economics, tag
• interesting, tag
• conversation, tag
• longform, tag
• ·7 years ago

[sriramk.com] - Building something no one else can measure

sriramk.com/building-unmeasurable-things

• product, tag
• product_design, tag
• economics, tag
• metrics, tag
• UX, tag
• advertising, tag
• ·7 years ago

Why people prefer unequal societies : Nature Human Behaviour

nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0082

Inequality and unfairness are not the same thing. Starmans, Sheskin and Bloom summarize evidence showing that people are bothered not by economic inequality, but rather by economic unfairness.

• paper, tag
• equality, tag
• economics, tag
• fairness, tag
• ·7 years ago

Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware - Motherboard

motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware

• repair, tag
• economics, tag
• hacking, tag
• farming, tag
• technology, tag
• legal, tag
• firmware, tag
• ·7 years ago

It Is Expensive to Be Poor - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/it-is-expensive-to-be-poor/282979/

Minimum-wage jobs are physically demanding, have unpredictable schedules, and pay so meagerly that workers can’t save up enough to move on.

• economics, tag
• article, tag
• poverty, tag
• wage, tag
• feminism, tag
• ·7 years ago

How to set up a Workers' Co-op

radicalroutes.org.uk/publicdownloads/setupaworkerscoop-lowres.pdf

• filetype:pdf, tag
• business, tag
• economics, tag
• cooperative, tag
• co-op, tag
• alternatives, tag
• ·7 years ago

Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics Of Open Source | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com/2014/02/13/please-dont-tell-me-you-want-to-be-the-next-red-hat/

Open source software powers the world’s technology. In the past decade, there has been an inexorable adoption of open source in most aspects of computing...

• open_source, tag
• economics, tag
• sustainability, tag
• design, tag
• business, tag
• software, tag
• ·7 years ago

What if jobs are not the solution but the problem? | Aeon Essays

aeon.co/essays/what-if-jobs-are-not-the-solution-but-the-problem

Economists believe in full employment. Americans think that work builds character. But what if jobs aren’t working anymore?

• work, tag
• economics, tag
• politics, tag
• income, tag
• sociology, tag
• human_nature, tag
• automation, tag
• ·8 years ago

prole.info

prole.info/

• essays, tag
• activism, tag
• criticism, tag
• marxism, tag
• class, tag
• politics, tag
• housing, tag
• economics, tag
• anarchism, tag
• ·8 years ago