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Comment #29914845
Check out GameClub, for those old great games. They buy the rights from developers that don’t want to continue, then do the maintenance for newer versions of iOS and Android.
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Comment #19141503
One shortcoming in economics is the inability to model cognitive costs. This is best visible in game theory - no model of cognitive costs has gained traction in the last few decade…
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Comment #18543747
I'm reminded of the rule of thumb: if a headline asks a yes/no question, the answer is almost always "no."
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Comment #18463900
This is called a "compensating differential" (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensating_differential ). There's a decent body of literature in economics on this. This f…
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Comment #17757871
Do you have a cite/example of a lecturer doing that on an exam? Are there any examples where that has been successful? I had never heard of that happening! It would be extremely co…
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Comment #17205673
Approval voting doesn't have the failed track record in the US because it hasn't been used. But necessarily, it is flawed. I don't know if it's better, but to say "this will solve …
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Comment #17205194
Based on a quick skim, this is not a good paper. Computer scientists writing on economics is great, it's helpful to grow new ideas in the field. Unfortunately they sometimes use ec…
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Comment #16745488
I've heard anecdotally that negative health shocks can lead to terrible wealth loss as healthcare is very expensive. Is relationship of the magnitude that could impact these result…
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Comment #15917858
There are many sources to develop an understanding of game theory. To build mastery in game theory, check out Osborne and Rubinstein's text. The authors offer it as a free download…