Jan 29, 2015
Team Tracking with Trello
Trello can do some really neat things and Joel Spolsky said it's real ability is to manage lists of lists. I've seen two applications, lately, for manging individuals on a team using…
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Jan 26, 2015
Syllabus for Public Financial Management, 2015
Despite the snowstorm wrecking havoc around the East Coast, the University of Baltimore is open and operating today. Today is the first day of class at UB and I will be teaching…
Jan 22, 2015
Managerial and Constitutional Values
Public Administration Review has an article by Daniel Feldman on the conflict between managerial and constitutional values amongst public servants: A synthesis of the work of two political and legal scholars, John…
Dec 2, 2014
Public Goods Often Aren't
It's that time of the year, as it always is, where we need a lesson on public goods. Public goods are a concept of economics defined by goods that are nonrivalrous) and…
Nov 30, 2014
Radiolab loses at statistics
Radiolab has a show on randomness (the embed feature doesn't work) where they discuss an experiment of flipping a coin 100 times. A string of tails appeared 7 times, which seems to…
Nov 26, 2014
Guess who (isn't) coming to dinner
Following the murder of Michael Brown by Darren Wilson, a recurring theme has been that whites do not understand. A typical example of the genre, from the Atlantic explains that our society…
Nov 18, 2014
It's better than pay-for-play contracts
The Cato Institute has a proposal on incentive pay for Congress. The proposal includes a a base salary of $100,000/year coupled with incentive bonuses for how well the economy has performed over…
Nov 16, 2014
There are four lights!
As the MARC train approaches the station, the lights on the front blink alternatingly. I am pretty sure they blink slower as the train slows down. However, this might just be a…
Nov 15, 2014
Flood Insurance Pricing
In a new discussion paper , RFF's Kousky and Shabman explain the NFIP's pricing. Here's the abstract: Flood insurance in the United States is offered through the federal National Flood Insurance Program…
Nov 14, 2014
Redmond v. Redwood
The chatter online for the last couple of days is that Microsoft is really late to the game in open sourcing its .NET platform. There's also been some chatter that this signals…
Nov 13, 2014
Federal and State Quarantine Powers
The Homeland Security Digital Library has a Congressional Research Service note on the legal justification for quarantines: Generally, state and local quarantines are authorized through public health orders, though some states may…