Many of you are probably already familiar with Leonard Read’s famous 1958 story I, Pencil. Told through the eyes of a pencil, it describes the process of producing a pencil and how many people ...
Lynne Kiesling Whether the topic is retail sales or higher education (or some other application), the role of digital technology raises the question of how, if at all, online activity substitutes...
https://knowledgeproblem.com/2012/11/29/physical-and-virtual-arent-always-substitutes/
Lynne Kiesling The disruptive digital innovations that have transformed music, movies, and news are now changing business models in higher education. This month’s Cato Unbound features a set of...
https://knowledgeproblem.com/2012/11/27/disruptive-innovation-in-education/
Michael Giberson Last summer I had a lot of fun at the too-short IHS Liberty and the Art of Teaching workshop. Well, I say “too short,” but the truth is that they packed so much information i...
https://knowledgeproblem.com/2012/03/16/ihss-great-summer-workshop-for-college-teachers/
Michael Giberson Do liberals or conservatives of libertarians tend to have a better understanding of economics? It is a question that Daniel Klein and Zeljka Buturovic investigated in a pair of...
Michael Giberson Criticisms of the growing field of empirical legal studies by UCLA law professor Stephen Bainbridge were issued in such broad brush strokes that he ended up blasting just about...
Michael Giberson Bloomberg Markets Magazine has a feature on economist John List and his $10 million research project on education. Along the way we get an introduction to List’s work on field ...
Michael Giberson Several days ago we discussed Jonathan Haidt’s research on libertarianism (see post). In his New York Times column, John Tierney discusses Haidt’s work on political bias amon...
https://knowledgeproblem.com/2011/02/09/haidt-on-political-bias-among-social-psychologists/
Michael Giberson The Wall Street Journal reports on recent efforts to make sure that taxpayers are getting their money’s worth from state universities. Acknowledging that his comments “coul...
https://knowledgeproblem.com/2010/10/25/could-be-special-pleading-on-higher-education/
Michael Giberson If you are already a rock star and can’t imagine doing anything else, then “money for nothing and your chicks for free” may be a reasonable characterization of your situati...
https://knowledgeproblem.com/2010/02/22/vehicle-to-grid-income-and-analysis/