So, as journos pondered how horrible things were in the job market these days… seems to me something funky may finally be occurring
An article from the Associate Press tried to spin the fall in unemployment, amidst employers cutting jobs, as “hundreds of thousands of people — perhaps discouraged by their prospects — left the civilian [...]

A good test of a new pharmaceutical would rest upon whether or not the team who developed the drug would use it on themselves, or their children. Unfortunately, what’s good for the gander is not good for the goose, when it comes to being free.Long Tail Anderson (the editor in chief of WIRED) has been [...]

One of the most frustrating challenges when working, researching or teaching around the subject of entrepreneurship is the “what” of entrepreneurship.  What the hell is it?  More important, how do those assumptions people hold about this thing that is entrepreneurship stack up to reality?
Scott Shane, at Case Western Reserve’s Weatherhead School of Management, has written [...]

After looking over the old Google aptitude test, I have been able to solve the riddle that is “how does Google succeed?” The answer is quite simple:
Google pays people less than they are worth.
This may sound like a harsh claim to make, but I would challenge you to find any business able to make a [...]

The way in which companies try to solve the problem of unruly executives, or staff, and corporate governance seems to be dominated by the assumption of incentives.  We calculate our best interest, and as such, act towards the opportunities we find most compelling.  We can be incentivised to act in particular ways, therefore.  Stock options [...]

So the latest CPI numbers came out today, followed closely by chicken little and all her friends running around screaming “inflation!!” Looks like energy costs may be, in fact, starting to creep into our price experience.
What doesn’t make sense to me, a degreed armchair economist, is just why exactly a federal reserve would chase energy-derived [...]

While everyone has been going bananas over Web 2.0 (is it a bubble? is it a technology? is it a mindset?), a rather important suite of alterations to national and international intellectual property law have emerged. In this new conception of intellectual property, IP 2.0, ideas in physical form take on a nature far more [...]

The BBConline highlights an excellent example of the evolving, seamless transition between “virtual” and “real” economies. Cash station cards that allow players to convert games doallars to real dollars. There is a part of me that believes that virtual worlds really are a consequent and cause of a widespread acceptance of modern-postmodern questions concerning the [...]