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Carbon Prices Wouldn't Affect Driving (Much)

WDW wrote 1 week ago: Below is an example of a clear and direct executive summary. The question is the effect of carbon pr … more →

Tags: ClimateAndEnergy, Communication, Economics, ForColleagues, PolicyDesign, carbon cap and trade, Carbon Tax, CBO, climate change

Bias for Action

WDW wrote 2 weeks ago: Bias for action is the sixth idea in this list of how to make innovation efforts really work. I see … more →

Tags: Organization, Workplace, Innovation, Organization, process engineering, Schneider national, trucking

Public Markup

WDW wrote 3 weeks ago: The Sunlight Foundation has a project (or experiment) in open source democracy: Letting the public m … more →

Tags: Communication, OpenSocieties

Government at it Finest (don't link to me!)

WDW wrote 3 weeks ago: As reported by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the city attorney for the City of Sheboygan, Wisconsi … more →

Tags: OpenSocieties, Links, police, Sheboygan

Yesterday's Unemployment Report

WDW wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been ignoring the hysteria over possible recession but today’s unemployment report … more →

Tags: EconConditions, Economics, ForColleagues

Openness vs. Control

WDW wrote 1 month ago: A CBC article draws attention to a lawsuit by FACiL, a Quebec open software group, against the provi … more →

Tags: Economics, OpenSocieties, Workplace, free entry, Free-Markets, Free Software, Government, open government, Open Records

Project Strategies

WDW wrote 1 month ago: From HBR, a helpful tough-questions checklist. It’s aimed at IT budget control but the points … more →

Tags: ForColleagues, Organization, IT, Management, projects

Government at Its Best

WDW wrote 1 month ago: They’ll look the other way for an illegal lemonade stand, but try selling garden produce and y … more →

No Pay? It's Tape for You!

WDW wrote 1 month ago: I’ve just started reading Naomi Klein’s book No Logo. I’m skipping her rhetoric on … more →

Tags: OpenSocieties, ForColleagues, Communication, History, Brands, logos, niche, Evolution, Arms race

Merlin's Brain

WDW wrote 1 month ago: Merlin Mann has updated his slidedeck on attention management in a knowledge workplace. As always, f … more →

Tags: ForColleagues, Organization, Workplace

How Terrorist Groups End

WDW wrote 2 months ago: The opening paragraphs from a RAND report on how terrorist groups end. In short: through police work … more →

Tags: PolicyDesign, History

GDP Report

WDW wrote 2 months ago: Here is a more nuanced and calm analysis of today’s GDP report. (Via Econbrowser) I was struck … more →

Tags: ForColleagues, Economics, EconConditions

Manufacturing Up Slightly

WDW wrote 2 months ago: Update from the Chicago Fed: Midwest Manufacturing Output Rises in June The Chicago Fed Midwest Manu … more →

Tags: ForColleagues, Economics, EconConditions

Cap and Trade vs. Day Care

WDW wrote 2 months ago: In what is thankfully labelled as an “opinion” piece, Justin Danhof warns that a carbon … more →

Economic Forecasting

WDW wrote 2 months ago: Old item: Francisco M. Torralba compares the records of the Wall Street Journal economics forecaster … more →

Tags: Economics, Forecasting

Gridlock

WDW wrote 3 months ago: Tyler Cowan comments on the book “The Gridlock Economy.” The main point of the book is ( … more →

Tags: Economics, transactions, TCE, Copyright, transaction costs

Rule Design is Hard

WDW wrote 3 months ago: Rules are indispensable and inescapable in human society, whether in the form of constitutions, stat … more →

Tags: PolicyDesign

Say Something Important

WDW wrote 3 months ago: John Baldoni summarizes what makes a report an effective communications tool: say something importan … more →

Tags: ForColleagues, Communication

Bear Cabal

WDW wrote 3 months ago: Joe Nocera has a detailed critique of the anti-speculator hysteria of this past week. In addition to … more →

Tags: Economics, History


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