More on small firms

http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/10/26/353512/italian-firm-size-the-battle-rages-on/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+matthewyglesias+%28Matthew+Yglesias%29, and check back on the MR posts I wrote on the topic this week, if you haven't read them already.

Another email address I could not read

My comment:

"Good topic, make sure you think through how to adjust for rapid adoption of cell phones in Africa..."

More behavioral IO?

One of many reports:

"Steve Jobs regretted what may have been a fatal mistake in putting off cancer surgery for nine months as he tried experimental diets and other unconventional therapies, according to the author of his new biography."

Tuesday, China Star at 5 (sharp)

Fairfax, Fair City Mall, near the FedEx, Rt.236 and Pickett.

I could not read your email

Here was my comments on your abstract:

Does it make sense to use *population density* as measuring school density?

You also will need to adjust for other factors affecting academic performance.

Good story on behavioral IO

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203752604576640923370662418.html

If that link isn't working, google to "A Food Fight in the Produce Aisle," from the WSJ. Read the "interactive graphics" section also, click through to get there.

New paper on the firm

Read the abstract of this paper, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1527098, the rest of the paper is strictly optional, only if you are interested. Nonetheless it shows some new directions for the "theory of the firm" literature.

Note

On the reading list, the optional are these only:

Optional: Charness, Gary and Kuhn, Peter J. “Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn From the Lab?” NBER Working Paper, 15913, 2010, Lazear, Edward P. “Leadership: A Personnel Economics Approach,” NBER Working Paper 15918, 2010, Oyer, Paul and Schaefer, Scott, “Personnel Economics: Hiring and Incentives,” NBER Working Paper 15977, 2010.

Not what follows below.