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Yet Another Economics and Poop Post

By Andy Ewing | Published: September 18, 2008
It turns out that there are tons of incentive problems with cleaning up after your pet, meaning that as a dog-owning economist with a blog I’m obligated to write about all of them.  I talked about the idea of placing a special bin on city streets for dog-waste in yesterday’s post with an eye toward [...]
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Energy Independence

By Andy Ewing | Published: September 17, 2008
Claire sent me a link to this older article earlier today about San Francisco’s attempt at converting dog poop into energy.  From the article: Under the pilot plan, announced this week, Sunset Scavenger will place biodegradable bags and what are tastefully called dog-waste carts in a popular San Francisco dog park. The dog poo will [...]
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The Future of Math Education?

By Andy Ewing | Published: September 16, 2008
The New York Times ran this article today about the relationship between humans’ intuitive approximate number system that is shared with many other animals and the concocted symbolic number system that we often regard as “math”.  Unsurprisingly, the two seem to be related.  From the article: “What’s interesting and surprising in our results is that [...]
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I wonder if this would happen to Layla?

By Andy Ewing | Published: April 9, 2008
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Economics and Politics

By Andy Ewing | Published: April 17, 2007
It’s a good thing I’m in on the ground floor with my brother for his eventual presidential run in 2032: …the early advisers to presidential candidates can leave a big imprint. For the 2008 campaign, the six leading campaigns have each signed up their first-string economic policy teams. These advisers don’t hold the sway that [...]
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