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Swinger Economics

By Dan Filler, Laura Appleman et al.

<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1375093">On SSRN</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Better yet, these comments on the paper, lifted from the comments section at <a href="http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/01/swinger-trends.html">Robin Hanson's Overcoming Bias</a>:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/01/swinger-trends.html#comment-441775">Anon</a>: "It's somewhat unhinging to realize that there is an economist studying these things in Italy, and his name is Fabio."</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/01/swinger-trends.html#comment-441794">Bejeebus</a>: "These communities undergo all the drama/gossip/dynamics that can be seen in any such community. It's not that different from Linux User Groups."</p>

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on February 05, 2010 (boomark / email).