In a Mood? Call Center Agents Can Tell

The New York Times October 12, 2013 By   NATASHA SINGER IN a YouTube clip from one of Steve Jobs’s last interviews, he appears to…

Open Season

The New Yorker by   James Surowiecki OCTOBER 21, 2013 In 1965, America’s big companies had a hell of a year. The stock market was…

Guest list angst – a statistical approach

FT.com By Tim Harford ‘Assumptions look doubtful and like many economists, I appreciate the free market’s messy reliance on trial…

The ‘sharing economy’ undermines workers’ rights

FT.com October 14, 2013 5:17 pm By Evgeny Morozov For all their rhetoric, these start-ups’ agendas are rather unrevolutionary, sa…

Why the efficient markets hypothesis merited a Nobel

FT.com October 14, 2013 1:35 pm By Tim Harford Any follower of Fama would have smelled a rat before the subprime crisis, says Tim…

Soap Opera: Amazon Moves In With P&G

The Wall Street Journal BUSINESS E-Commerce Giant Sets Up Shop Inside Warehouses of Suppliers By   SERENA NG Updated Oct. 14, 201…

Stephens: Nobels and National Greatness

GLOBAL VIEW October 14, 2013, 7:35 p.m. ET  Anyone who thinks America's best days are behind it should take a close look at t…

Science: Beyond the God particle

FT.com October 11, 2013 7:31 pm By Clive Cookson The Nobel prizes in chemistry and physics show how computing is changing every f…

Are You on the Red Team or the Blue Team?

October 15, 2013 Among male participants in a competition experiment, those who chose to represent themselves with red trapezoida…