June 24, 2011
Data
I’m a big fan of Michael Lewis and still love Moneyball. Some years back I wrote an op-ed for the NY Post (no longer online) that said, that we need some Billy Beane’s in Medicaid. Beane is the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics. Using sports data is a great means to get through to […]
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March 21, 2011
Economics
Too much of economics is pure theory with no data. Take a look at James Hamilton’s commentary at Econobrowser on a paper by Chevalier and Kashyap. The authors actually used grocery store price data. What variability is hidden behind national economic data?
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