Economists Do It With Models: Everyone Responds To Incentives, Apples and Livers Edition...

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Monday, June 29, 2009

Everyone Responds To Incentives, Apples and Livers Edition...

Here's the deal, which you may have heard by now: Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant back in April 2009. This just came out a few days ago, since the Methodist University hospital in Tennessee originally denied him being a patient there. (A blurb on the hopsital's statement can be found here.)... Sign in to see full entry.

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I think a quote from a conversation I had with a friend says it best: Peter: So, you want to combine urbane cultural discourse with economics and social criticism in a witty, mature, interesting way that people will read and pay you for? Jodi: Correct. (You can tell which of us here is actually trained in writing. I will also admit that not all of my jokes are of the mature variety.) Because hey, who doesn’t want to do it with models? Seriously though…my original blog grew out of a need to address student questions that were of economic relevance but somewhat outside the scope of an “Economics 101″ type course. Since then, my postings have gotten more broad and less technical in order to appeal to a wider audience.

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