SUPER CRUNCHERS

Nonfiction | 978-0-553-80540-6
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October 2007

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Popular Press Publications:

Public Radio Commentary for Marketplace:

Now, the customer's always managed (Oct. 8, 2007) (Audio)

Did you use that gift card or rebate? ( August 9, 2007) (Audio)  

For Many, Forms Could Be a Lot Less Taxing (April 16, 2007) (Audio)

A Way to Stop Pretexting (Sept. 11, 2006) (Real Audio).

How to Strengthen Shareholder Democracy (July 6, 2006) (Real Audio).

End Tipping? (Oct. 5, 2005) (Real Audio)

Justice Roberts Should Sell His Stock (Sept. 14, 2005) (Real Audio)

Opting for Equality (June 30, 2005) (Real Audio).

Better Benchmarking (June 21, 2005) (Real Audio)

Cable Bundling (Nov. 19, 2004) (Real Audio).

Cellphone Sleuth (Aug. 20, 2004) (Real Audio).

A Donation Booth? (June 23, 2004) (Real Audio).

Say Goodbye to TIVO (June 9, 2004) (Real Audio).

Using Iraq to Undermine OPEC (April 6, 2004) (Real Audio).

Benefits of Non-Transparency (Feb. 23, 2004) (Real Audio).

Who's Right? (Nov. 10, 2003) (Real Audio).

Blackboxes for Cars (Sept. 16, 2003) (Real Audio).

Sarbanes/Oxley's First Birthday (July 30, 2003) (Real Audio).

Pay Per Mile Auto Insurance (Feb. 25, 2003) (Real Audio).

Spoiling Spam (Dec. 24, 2002) (Real Audio).

Virtual Strikes (Oct. 4, 2002) (Real Audio).

Disclosuring' hidden fees to consumers (Aug. 28, 2002) (Real Audio).

An alternative to expensing stock options (July 24, 2002) (Real Audio).

Why Not? A Bi-Monthly Column: in Forbes (with Barry Nalebuff). A column of ideas to improve business, government and everyday life:

An Equity Kicker 113 (May 19, 2008).

The New Green (January 7, 2008)

Experiment 103 (September 03, 2007). 

Cupid and Colleges 87 (May 9, 2007). 

For the Love of the Game 54 (March 12, 2007)

Environmental Atonement 87 (Dec. 25, 2006)

Skin in the Game 161 (Nov. 13, 2006)

Easy Savings 146 (Sept. 4, 2006)

The Ticket to Savings 176 (May 22, 2006)

When the Blind See Better 141 (Feb. 13, 2006)

Mortgage Your Retirement 150 (Nov. 14, 2005) (excel data)

Promises to Keep 78 (July 4, 2005)

Peer Pressure 135 (April 11, 2005)

Stop Thief 88 (Jan. 10, 2005)

Race, Tips and Economics 136 (Nov. 1, 2004)

Throwaway Tickets 52 (August 18, 2004)

Dialing for Thieves 76 (April 19, 2004)

Don't Sell Us Short 56 (Feb. 2, 2004)

It Beats a CD 160 (Dec. 8, 2003)

Blackbox for Cars 125 (August 11, 2003)

An Educated Consumer 95 (June 09, 2003)

Make Car Insurance Fairer 154 (March 17, 2003)

The Virtues of a Virtual Strike (Nov. 25, 2002)

Price-Protect Your Home (Sept 16, 2002)

Opt-Out Advertising (June 20, 2002)

A Community of Ideas 173 (May 9, 2002)

If Telemarketers Paid For Your Time, Forbes (April 15, 2002)

Other Popular Press

Guestblogger for NYTimes's Freakonomics, Balkinization, and Lessig blogs.

Lose Weight? Bet On It, LOS ANGELES TIMES (Jan. 27, 2008)

Where Money Is No Object, THE GUARDIAN (Jan. 26, 2008) (with Bruce Ackerman).

Number Crunching the 2008 Election, Tierney Lab, New York Times (Jan. 9, 2008).

Prepare to be Super-Crunched, THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT 18 (Oct. 26, 2007).

You Found a Better Idea, Parade (July 8, 2007) (with Barry Nalebuff).

Streamline Tax Filing, Yale Law Report 48 (Summer 2007).

Down With Plutocrats and Fat Cat Donors, Slate www.slate.com/id/2169025 (June 25, 2007) (with Bruce Ackerman).

Do You Have A Better Idea?, Parade (March 25, 2007)  (with Barry Nalebuff). 

The Hollow Promise: Sexual Orientation Nondiscrimination Policies, 24 Association of Corporate Counsel Docket 48 (Oct. 2006) (with Richard F. Ober, Jr.).

Promises, not policies, Yale Alumni Magazine 32 (Sept./Oct. 2006).

Give NY’s Poor What They Need Most: A Voice, New York Daily News (August 14, 2006) (with Bruce Ackerman).

The Knicks Boldly Go Where Companies Have Not, New York Times (July 2, 2006) (with John J. Donohue III).

Secret Political Donations Can End the Secret Deal, Financial Times 13 (April 27, 2006) (with Bruce Ackerman).

Just What the Professor Ordered, New York Times A27 (Sept. 16, 2005).

The Joy of Ambiguity, The Advocate (June 29, 2005) (with Jennifer Gerarda Brown).

Privatizing Gay Rights with Non-discrimination Promises Instead of Policies, The Economist’s Voice, Vol. 2: No. 2, (2005) (with Jennifer Gerarda Brown).

Straight, Not Narrow: How Straight Couples Can Support Gay Marriage, New Haven Advocate (June 16, 2005) (with Jennifer Gerarda Brown).

Separate, Unequal: How Civil Unions Fall Short of Marriage, Hartford Courant A13 (June 10, 2005).

Warning: We Discriminate, Alternet www.alternet.org/rights/22030/ (May 17, 2005).

Looking Out For No. 2: A Modest Proposal for Single-Use Toilets, Slate (March 7, 2005).

Ask Iraqi Voters: Do You Want Us To Stay?, Hartford Courant (Jan. 38. 2005) (with Barry Nalebuff).

Going Soft on Microsoft? The EU's Antitrust Case and Remedy, The Economists' Voice, Vol. 2: No. 2, Article 4 (2005) http://www.bepress.com/ev/vol2/iss2/art4 (with Barry Nalebuff)..

Anonymously Yours, Worth 32 (November 2004).

Microsoft I: A Remedy Worthy of Solomon, International Herald Tribune (Oct. 11, 2004) (with Barry Nalebuff).

Going, Going, Google, The Wall Street Journal A12 (August 20, 2004) (with Barry Nalebuff).

The Wrong Ticket to Ride, New York Times A29 (March 24, 2004) (with Barry Nalebuff).

Principled Problem Solving: Letting Constraints Filter and Guide Your Thinking Can Often Be the Best Way to Reach Truly Creative Solutions, 14 Scientific American Mind 96 (2004).

System Down: McCain-Feingold Helped Doom the Current Model of Public Financing for Campaigns, Fixing it will Take Some Imagination, The American Prospect On Line (Dec. 12, 2003) (with Bruce Ackerman).

Why Legislating Low Tuitions for State Colleges is a Mistake: They Just Subsidize the Rich, Writ Findlaw's Legal Commentary (October 30, 2003) (with Aaron Edlin).

In Praise of Honest Pricing, 45 MIT Sloan Management Review 24 (Fall 2003)(with Barry Nalebuff).

Want to Call Me? Pay Me!, Wall Street Journal A24 (Oct. 8, 2003) (with Barry Nalebuff).

Dialing for Dollars, New York Times A29 (Sept. 30, 2003).

Making Ideas Take Flight, Business 2.0 133 (Oct. 2003) (with Barry Nalebuff).

Exactly Who's In the Right in This Labor Dispute?, Yale Daily News 2 (Sept. 4, 2003) (with Barry Nalebuff).

Patriot Dollars Put Money Where the Voters Are, L.A. Times at 15 (July 17, 2003) (with Bruce Ackerman).

Charity Begins At Schedule A, New York Times, p. A21, col. 1 (April 15, 2003) (with Barry Nalebuff).

Campaign Reform's Worst Enemy, New York Times, p. A19, col. 2 (July 6, 2002) (with Bruce Ackerman).

Connecticut's Speeder-Friendly Crackdown, New York Times, p. A19, col. 2 (August 31, 2001) (with Barry Nalebuff).

Should Campaign Donors Be Identified?, 24 Regulation 12 (Summer 2001), excerpted as A Real Solution: Make Donors Anonymous, National Review Online (July 12, 2001).

Why Telemarketers Should Pay Us, Hartford Courant, p. A15, col. 3 (May 10, 2001) (with Matthew Funk).

Lectures vs. Laptops, New York Times, p. A25, col. 2 (March 20, 2001).

Monetize Labor Practices, 26 Boston Review 18 (February-March 2001).

Why Prosecute Linda Tripp?, New York Times A17, col. 1 (August 10, 1999).

Remedying Private Discrimination: Following the ‘Anderson' Model, Los Angeles Times M2, col. 3 (April 26, 1998).

The Donation Booth, 22 Boston Review 26 (December-January 1997-98) (with Jeremy Bulow), reprinted in 47 Yale Law Report 62 (2000) and The News-Gazette, B1 (Sept. 27, 1998).

Breaking Windows: Why the Justice Department Should Go After the Microsoft Monopoly, The New Republic 18 (Nov. 17, 1997).

Car Buying, Made Simpler, New York Times F12 (April 13, 1997) (with Peter Schuck).

Aid Diversity, and the Treasury, New York Times F13 (May 21, 1995) (with Peter Cramton).

Price and Prejudice, The New Republic 30 (July 6, 1992).

Colleges in Collusion, The New Republic 19 (October 16, 1989).