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Fixed: Why Personal Finance is Broken and How to Make it Work for Everyone

by John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai  · 25 Jul 2025

require each institution to summarize the experiences of its own customers. 20. For details of the reform, see Ali Hortaçsu and Chad Syverson, “Product differentiation, search costs, and competition in the mutual fund industry: A case study of S&P 500 index funds,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 119 (2004): 403–456. 21

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evidence on the impact of overdraft fees on unwary customers. We discussed this paper in chapter 4. 59. Ali Hortaçsu and Chad Syverson, “Product differentiation, search costs, and competition in the mutual fund industry: A case study of S&P 500 index funds,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 119 (2004): 403–456. 60

No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans

by Michael S. Barr  · 20 Mar 2012

, on average, some LMI households incur significant nonpecuniary costs to obtain and use banking services. These households often pay bills in person and incur large search costs to avoid the most expensive options. When asked what features of financial services would motivate them to change behavior, they cite convenience and speed before

A Pelican Introduction Economics: A User's Guide

by Ha-Joon Chang  · 26 May 2014  · 385pp  · 111,807 words

it difficult to emigrate because immigrant-receiving countries want people with skills and because emigration costs money, which these workers don’t have (e.g., search costs, application fees, air tickets). So very often it is the ‘wrong’ people who emigrate – skilled workers. This is known as brain drain. Some of those

Willful: How We Choose What We Do

by Richard Robb  · 12 Nov 2019  · 202pp  · 58,823 words

, 128–129 satisficing, 42–43 Saul of Tarsus, 63 Schopenhauer, Arthur, 5, 161, 209n5 Schwartz, Barry, 172 scientific knowledge, 61 scientific method, 49–50, 53 search costs, 9 Searle, John, 141–142 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 16 selfish altruism, 104, 105–106, 109, 123, 125, 135 Seligman, Martin, 202 Sen, Amartya

The Little Book That Builds Wealth: The Knockout Formula for Finding Great Investments

by Pat Dorsey  · 1 Mar 2008  · 141pp  · 40,979 words

attached to differentiated products like Coke, Oreo cookies, or Mercedes-Benz cars. In these cases, the brand is valuable because it reduces a customer’s search costs, but it doesn’t necessarily give the company pricing power. In other words, you know what a soft drink will taste like if it is

The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa

by Calestous Juma  · 27 May 2017

in mobile phones can raise up to 1.5% in GDP growth. There are five ways in which mobile phone access boosts microeconomic performance: reducing search costs and therefore improving overall market efficiency, improving productive efficiency of firms, creating new jobs in telecommunications-based industries, increasing social networking capacity, and allowing for

Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards

by Antti Ilmanen  · 4 Apr 2011  · 1,088pp  · 228,743 words

, and many hedge funds) are much less liquid than traditional asset classes. Fundamentally, market liquidity reflects the ease of finding counterparties to trade with. Higher search costs for counterparties—whether those naturally needing to take the opposite position, or financial intermediaries or arbitrage capital looking for attractive opportunities—raise the cost of

Breakfast of Champions

by Kurt Vonnegut  · 15 Mar 1999  · 209pp  · 58,466 words

. It was from an eccentric millionaire, who hired a private detective agency to discover who and where he was. Trout was so invisible that the search cost eighteen thousand dollars. The fan letter reached him in his basement in Cohoes. It was hand-written, and Trout concluded that the writer might be

Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

by Edward Slingerland  · 31 May 2021

: Cambridge University Press. Boudreau, K. J., T. Brady, I. Ganguli, P. Gaule, E. Guinan, A. Hollenberg, and K. R. Lakhani. (2017). “A field experiment on search costs and the formation of scientific collaborations.” Review of Economics and Statistics, 99(4), 565–576. Bourguignon, Erika. (1973). Religion, Altered States of Consciousness, and Social

People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent

by Joseph E. Stiglitz  · 22 Apr 2019  · 462pp  · 129,022 words

of the limitations of the competitive equilibrium model. It is not robust—slight changes in assumptions (the presence of small fixed sunk costs, or small search costs or small information costs combined with small amounts of information imperfections) lead to large changes in results, e.g., the persistence of large amounts of

The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

by Joseph E. Stiglitz  · 10 Jun 2012  · 580pp  · 168,476 words

How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World

by Dambisa Moyo  · 3 May 2021  · 272pp  · 76,154 words

The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated

by Gautam Baid  · 1 Jun 2020  · 1,239pp  · 163,625 words

SUPERHUBS: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World

by Sandra Navidi  · 24 Jan 2017  · 831pp  · 98,409 words

The New Science of Asset Allocation: Risk Management in a Multi-Asset World

by Thomas Schneeweis, Garry B. Crowder and Hossein Kazemi  · 8 Mar 2010  · 317pp  · 106,130 words

The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics

by Rod Hill and Anthony Myatt  · 15 Mar 2010

Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

by Eric Posner and E. Weyl  · 14 May 2018  · 463pp  · 105,197 words

Competition Demystified

by Bruce C. Greenwald  · 31 Aug 2016  · 482pp  · 125,973 words

The Middleman Economy: How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and Profit

by Marina Krakovsky  · 14 Sep 2015  · 270pp  · 79,180 words

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

by Barry Schwartz  · 1 Jan 2004  · 241pp  · 75,516 words

The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--And How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity

by Paul Collier  · 10 May 2010  · 288pp  · 76,343 words

How to Fix Copyright

by William Patry  · 3 Jan 2012  · 336pp  · 90,749 words

The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets

by Thomas Philippon  · 29 Oct 2019  · 401pp  · 109,892 words

The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

by Ray Kurzweil  · 25 Jun 2024

The Price of Everything: And the Hidden Logic of Value

by Eduardo Porter  · 4 Jan 2011  · 353pp  · 98,267 words

Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us From Citizen Kings to Market Servants

by Maurice E. Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi  · 14 May 2020  · 511pp  · 132,682 words

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee  · 20 Jan 2014  · 339pp  · 88,732 words

Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown

by Philip Mirowski  · 24 Jun 2013  · 662pp  · 180,546 words

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

by Dan Ariely  · 31 May 2010  · 324pp  · 93,175 words

Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities

by Diana Leafe Christian  · 1 Jan 2003

Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond

by Bruce C. N. Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul D. Sonkin and Michael van Biema  · 26 Jan 2004  · 306pp  · 97,211 words

Platform Scale: How an Emerging Business Model Helps Startups Build Large Empires With Minimum Investment

by Sangeet Paul Choudary  · 14 Sep 2015  · 302pp  · 73,581 words

The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

by Mancur Olson

Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together

by Thomas W. Malone  · 14 May 2018  · 344pp  · 104,077 words

The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World

by Anu Bradford  · 14 Sep 2020  · 696pp  · 184,001 words

Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott  · 9 May 2016  · 515pp  · 126,820 words

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu  · 2 Nov 2010  · 418pp  · 128,965 words

Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets

by John McMillan  · 1 Jan 2002  · 350pp  · 103,988 words

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

by Lawrence Lessig  · 2 Jan 2009

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

by Yochai Benkler  · 14 May 2006  · 678pp  · 216,204 words

Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy--And How to Make Them Work for You

by Sangeet Paul Choudary, Marshall W. van Alstyne and Geoffrey G. Parker  · 27 Mar 2016  · 421pp  · 110,406 words

The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters

by Eric J. Johnson  · 12 Oct 2021  · 362pp  · 103,087 words

The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters

by Diane Coyle  · 15 Apr 2025  · 321pp  · 112,477 words

The Crux

by Richard Rumelt  · 27 Apr 2022  · 363pp  · 109,834 words

Virtual Competition

by Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke  · 30 Nov 2016

Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners

by Larry Harris  · 2 Jan 2003  · 1,164pp  · 309,327 words

The Irrational Bundle

by Dan Ariely  · 3 Apr 2013  · 898pp  · 266,274 words

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig  · 14 Jul 2019  · 2,466pp  · 668,761 words

Algorithms in C++ Part 5: Graph Algorithms

by Robert Sedgewick  · 2 Jan 1992

Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity

by Currid  · 9 Nov 2010  · 332pp  · 91,780 words

Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley From Building a New Global Underclass

by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri  · 6 May 2019  · 346pp  · 97,330 words

Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques: Concepts and Techniques

by Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber and Jian Pei  · 21 Jun 2011

Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future

by John Brockman  · 18 Jan 2011  · 379pp  · 109,612 words

Understanding Sponsored Search: Core Elements of Keyword Advertising

by Jim Jansen  · 25 Jul 2011  · 298pp  · 43,745 words

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

by Nick Bostrom  · 3 Jun 2014  · 574pp  · 164,509 words

Open for Business Harnessing the Power of Platform Ecosystems

by Lauren Turner Claire, Laure Claire Reillier and Benoit Reillier  · 14 Oct 2017  · 240pp  · 78,436 words

Designing Search: UX Strategies for Ecommerce Success

by Greg Nudelman and Pabini Gabriel-Petit  · 8 May 2011

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

by Henry Jenkins  · 31 Jul 2006

The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy

by Matthew Hindman  · 24 Sep 2018

The Disappearing Act

by Florence de Changy  · 24 Dec 2020

Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers

by Paulina Rowinska  · 5 Jun 2024  · 361pp  · 100,834 words