// This is a Javascript file GRC_p({c:"green",t:"Jim's shared items",s:"false"});new GRC({ "id": "user/07716455285733164035/state/com.google/broadcast", "title": "Jim\u0027s shared items in Google Reader", "continuation": "CJHPhqS5uY8C", "author": "Jim", "updated": 1193845112, "items": [ { "id": "tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/0d02e1d4e2c450d8", "categories": [ "General", "Amazon", "Freakonomics", "marketing", "publishing" ], "title": "An Earthquake Hits Amazon\u2019s Sales Ranking", "published": 1190917638, "updated": 1190917638, "alternate": { "href": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FreakonomicsBlog/~3/162097461/", "type": "text/html" }, "summarySnippet": "Anyone who\u2019s ever written a book \u2014 and these days, who hasn\u2019t? \u2014 can tell \nyou that watching your sales rank on Amazon.com can be a pretty fun sport. \nBut something happened recently that made it a lot more fun for some people, \nand a lot less fun for ...", "author": "Stephen J. Dubner", "origin": { "streamId": "feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreakonomicsBlog", "title": "Freakonomics", "htmlUrl": "http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com" } }, { "id": "tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/dc26fbb60ed697a9", "categories": [ "General", "census", "crime", "data mining", "New York" ], "title": "Census Fun for Everyone: Zipskinny", "published": 1192633434, "updated": 1192633434, "alternate": { "href": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FreakonomicsBlog/~3/171159886/", "type": "text/html" }, "summarySnippet": "Have you all played around with Zipskinny? It\u2019s a site that takes data from \nthe 2000 census and lets you search by ZIP code to see demographic \ninformation in your area, and compare it to others: income levels, racial \nbreakdown, unemployment, education ...", "author": "Stephen J. Dubner", "origin": { "streamId": "feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreakonomicsBlog", "title": "Freakonomics", "htmlUrl": "http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com" } }, { "id": "tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/2da90e33858a1287", "categories": [ "General", "James Surowiecki", "marketing", "prediction markets", "scott adams" ], "title": "A New Prediction Market for the Masses", "published": 1193338958, "updated": 1193338958, "alternate": { "href": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FreakonomicsBlog/~3/174988398/", "type": "text/html" }, "summarySnippet": "For those of you who love prediction markets (a variety of which we\u2019ve \nwritten about in the past), there\u2019s a new site that looks to be as vast, \ninclusive, and user-friendly as anything I\u2019ve seen: Predictify. You can \nwager on standing bets (who will be ...", "author": "Stephen J. Dubner", "origin": { "streamId": "feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreakonomicsBlog", "title": "Freakonomics", "htmlUrl": "http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com" } }, { "id": "tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/1b08bee12c3dd435", "categories": [ "Balance of Payments", "Standard of Living", "The Economy", "Trade" ], "title": "Does It Matter that Other People Save? Yes. Does the Nationality of these Savers Matter? No", "published": 1193071838, "updated": 1193699526, "alternate": { "href": "http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2007/10/does-it-matter-.html", "type": "text/html" }, "summarySnippet": "Arnold Kling insightfully points out that among the distinguishing features of economics as it is taught and researched here at George Mason University is that we resist the temptation to treat abstract collectives as acting, relevant beings. The typical ...", "contentSnippet": "\n\nArnold Kling insightfully points out that among the distinguishing features \nof economics as it is taught and researched here at George Mason University \nis that we resist the temptation to treat abstract collectives as acting, \nrelevant beings. The ...", "author": "Don Boudreaux", "origin": { "streamId": "feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/CafeHayek", "title": "Cafe Hayek", "htmlUrl": "http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/" } }, { "id": "tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/4a6558d3ce737ac2", "categories": [ "Economics", "Trade" ], "title": "The Benefits of Trade", "published": 1193242097, "updated": 1193425917, "alternate": { "href": "http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2007/10/the-benefits-of.html", "type": "text/html" }, "summarySnippet": "My GMU Economics colleague (and founder of the indispensable Econ Journal Watch) Dan Klein here explains why economists left, right, and center strongly support free trade. Here\u0027s part of Dan\u0027s message: Free international trade increases the extent of the ...", "contentSnippet": "\n\nMy GMU Economics colleague (and founder of the indispensable *Econ Journal \nWatch*) Dan Klein here explains why economists left, right, and center \nstrongly support free trade. Here\u0027s part of Dan\u0027s message:\n\nFree international trade increases the ...", "author": "Don Boudreaux", "origin": { "streamId": "feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/CafeHayek", "title": "Cafe Hayek", "htmlUrl": "http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/" } } ] } );