To said student, thank you for your email, and your very kind words. I have answered them below. To anybody who is reading, and has other questions, please send them across. I’ll either answer them myself, to the best of my ability, or pass them on to people who might be better able to answer … Continue reading “Questions from a student”
You might want to read my previous posts about online education and learning before reading this. See this essay about the state of higher education in India, this about signaling and bundling in higher education, this about unbundling college and this about measuring efficiency in education. In addition, Aadisht had a great comment about optionality … Continue reading “Large classes, small groups”
What is bundling? It’s selling more than one thing for a single price. When you buy a cup of coffee, you’re buying a cup of coffee. But when you’re buying a cup of coffee at Starbucks, are you just paying for the coffee, or are you paying also for the air-conditioning, the Wi-Fi, the chairs … Continue reading “Signaling, Bundling And College”
“Almost half of all U.S. rice comes from Arkansas. When a rice farmer who was also a state legislator bought some and tasted it, he decided the label had to be banned. So, during March, Arkansas legislators prohibited the cauliflower rice name from all food labels in the state. Saying that the word rice has … Continue reading “Etc: Links for 19th July, 2019”
“In 1982, Deming’s book Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position was published by the MIT Center for Advanced Engineering, and was renamed Out of the Crisis in 1986. In it, he offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management’s failure to plan for the future brings about loss of market, … Continue reading “Links for 7th June, 2019”
“While nightlife and entertainment are certainly drivers of the night-time economy, they need not be the only ones. According to a report released by the London mayor’s office, 1.6 million people in London—constituting more than a third of the workforce—worked at night in 2017. Of these, 191,000 worked in health and 178,000 in professional services, … Continue reading “Links for 28th March, 2019”
Hello everybody, and welcome to Econforeverybody! As the name suggests, Econforeverybody is an outfit that aims to do one thing: make economics accessible to everybody. As anybody who’s been through even a couple of classes in economics will tell you, it has a tendency to bore the living daylights out of you in next to … Continue reading “What is Econforeverybody all about?”
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