A life among the econ

William Allen's story of academic life in the UCLA Department of
Economics. http://bit.ly/evYVND.

There's a lot of good stories here: journals that won't publish your
work unless you stick in some mathematical formulas, the trials of
being a department chief, etc. He tells the stories well. I am not
sure that he gets the moral of the story right, though.

Brad

Cheating

Cheating in a business school class: http://bit.ly/eve6vz.

Cheating in Association football: http://bbc.in/eiVbos.

Brad

Siegel's paradox

http://bit.ly/ga6nrV.

Brad

Optimization in business school

They're studying optimization at MIT Sloan. You can download a program
called AMPL.

http://bit.ly/hVODcZ

Brad

Berserker equilibrium

The idea behind berserker equilibrium is that there is a multiple-
players prisoners' game going on. The game payoffs are set so that, if
you make a move, everyone else will kill you. Your rational play is
not only to refrain from making a move, but to be so quiet no one else
knows you even exist to play the game. So everybody stays silent.

http://bit.ly/eZTCsE

The concept comes from a set of science fiction stories by Fred
Saberhagen: http://bit.ly/fjDtgd. Not from the berserkers, who were
Norse warriors.

Brad

Take Five

Dave Brubeck quartet: http://bit.ly/fSIgY0.

Brad

Ivo Welch's Corporate Finance

You can read it online (http://bit.ly/fAtj7g).

Brad