Mostly Economics

Now, it's  http://antontarasenko.com/ .

In business literature you can find claims about magic numbers in management. The number of ten is said to be where a firm starts, while any...

Back in the 90s, growth economists explained income differences among countries with human capital (Mankiw, Romer, and Weil, “A Contribut...

Failures of development programs for Africa led to the opinion that tens of billions of dollars are just wasted. This belief is very comfor...

(comparing public policies against one of the deadliest diseases; source ) Governments make mistakes. But not those that typically get ...

One point about inequality protects the right to get rich by creating social wealth. If Walmart perfects its operations until the customer p...

Ballots happen to be secret, unless the voter represents some constituency. So, US Congress elections are secret, but congresspeople's v...

The US Congress mentions "terrorism" in the same pattern the NYT does : (The Congress data covers two-year intervals (a...

You could notice that victims of terrorism  increased  recently. That's despite the War on Terror declared in 2001. More details come fr...

Does  The New York Times  devote its attention proportionally to the issue? It depends on the reader. I took the fraction of articles mentio...

The New York Times evolved over time in words and topics ( one ,  two ). And so did the US Congress. To track topics in the congressional ...

  The Limits to Growth  predicted the demise of economic growth back in 1972. Though the book received much criticism since then, Graha...

Angel.co reports about half a thousand companies dealing with virtual currencies. CruchBase mentions 17 startups related to Bitcoin alone. ...

Publicly available startup data includes firms that exist just as online profiles. So, maybe these firms will do their product some other ti...

A brief elaboration on rating systems discussed before . Since mass voting creates a skewed distribution and uses only a fraction of the sc...