[LI] Moral devaluation of money? (2 items)

Two items about money: A reply to a post about tax abuse and corruption, in which I raise the topic of a degradation of the meaning of money itself; and a post of an article about moral contamination of money, in which I expand on the idea. Reply to post by Anne-Rachel Inné of an …

[LI] Gender & self-promotion; redefine “work” to understand recession’s impact on women?

One post and one reply on LinkedIn, addressing aspects of  how economic and employment structures impact women differently than men. In the first, the use of self-assessments in hiring and evaluations highlights a gender difference in self-promotion that tends to work to the disadvantage of women (and the advantage of men). In the second, how …

[LI] Trekonomics; innovation without pay; economic value

Three items outside of mainstream economics posted to LinkedIn: science fiction imagining a moneyless future; innovation outside of the context of paid work, and the meaning of value (as opposed to price) in economics. "The Economic Lessons of Star Trek’s Money-Free Society," Wired, 28 May 2016 (posted August 2019) Fascinating. Will have to get a …

International Anti-Corruption Day 2016

International Anti-Corruption Day (IACD) has been marked annually on December 9 since 2003, the year in which the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC). Having just returned from a short term contract with an anti-corruption effort in Mali, I thought it worth highlighting this issue on this day. …

Economics of language and the “long tail” effect – part 2

On the Wikinomics blog, Dan Herman responded to my discussion of use of the long tail model for languages. He raised some interesting points that I'll come to in a moment. Part of the reason I posted on the long-tail concept is that I believe it will be useful in various ways to analyzing the …

Economics of language and the “long tail” effect

"The economics of language has been neglected and deserves much greater attention," wrote economist Donald Lamberton in a book he edited in 2002. That may not have been too much of a revelation at the time - only a few years earlier (1994) another economist, François Grin, wrote that this field was tolerated "as an …