Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution says:

With New York and Los Angeles in some disarray, Chicago is arguably North America’s “coolest” city right now; the new contemporary wing of the Art Institute is the best “new U.S. museum” in many years.

I visited the Modern Wing for the first time this past weekend and was equally impressed.  That Chicago is the coolest city in fact goes without argument: I live here.

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I received an e-mail today from my little brother, who is working at a summer camp in Georgia.  His only correspondence to me over the past six weeks, aside from a brief phone call, was the message “The south is fucked up” and this picture:

More information about his camp is available here.

Categories: Ephemera, Funny
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An article in Monday’s New York Times questions the real world applicability of many behavioral economics experiments:

The researchers don’t deny that consumers can be swayed by variations in sticker prices in laboratory experiments. But they question how significant that factor is in real-world settings where prices can’t be inflated so extremely, like the Tel Aviv restaurant. “Size is everything,” Dr. Heffetz says. “Our findings remind us that knowing that ‘A has a positive effect on B’ is not enough. The effect may simply be too small to matter.”

Categories: Behavioral Economics, Business and Economics, Incentive Centered Design
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