GENTRIFICATION IN DC

Doig, Will. Can gentrification work for everyone?, Salon.com 12/24/2011

INSIDE VIEWS, OUTSIDE VIEWS, AND THE PLANNING FALLACY

Kahneman, Daniel. A Short Course In Thinking About Thinking, Edge 7/18/2007

CAUSALITY AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS

Lehrer, Jonah. Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us, Wired 12/16/2011

PRIMING AND ASSOCIATIONS

Kahneman, Daniel. Two Big Things Happening In Psychology Today, Edge 10/21/2008

COMPENSATING COLLEGE ATHLETES

Branch, Taylor. The Shame of College Sports, Atlantic Mobile 10/1/2011

SINGLE FAMILY FORECLOSURE CAPITAL

Goodman, Peter. In Foreclosure Capital, Meltdown And Poverty Feel Permanent, Huffington Post 12/7/2011

BOOK: THE BIG SORT

Bishop, Bill. The Big Sort, 2008

MIGRANT WORKER HOUSING IN THE GOLDEN STATE

Brown, Patricia Leigh. On edge of paradise, Coachella workers live in grim conditions, California Watch 10/25/2011

COCAINE PRICE COLLAPSE = CRIME RATE COLLAPSE

Hinkes-Jones,Llewellyn. How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime, The Atlantic Cities 11/11/2011

RATING AGENCIES MISS GREECE

Creswell, Julie. Ratings Firms Misread Signs of Greek Woes, New York Times 11/29/2011

SOLVING OUR PROBLEMS BY PRINTING MONEY

Striner, Richard. How to Pay for What We Need, The American Scholar Winter 2012

POST INDUSTRIAL REVITALIZTION IN BENTON HARBOR MI

Mahler, Jonathan. Now That the Factories Are Closed, It’s Tee Time in Benton Harbor, Mich., New York Times 12/15/2011

AVOIDING BLACK SWANS

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. Ten Principles For A Black Swan Robust World. Edge, 4/18/2008

BOOK: THE DARWIN ECONOMY

Frank, Robert H. The Darwin Economy, 2011

PSYCHOLOGY OF SCARCITY

Mullainathan, Sendhil  The Psychology Of Scarcity, Edge 10/15/2008

MODELING CLIMATE CHANGE

Schneider, Stephen Modeling The Future, Edge 3/30/2008

BOOK: SUM: FORTY TALES FROM THE AFTERLIVES

Eagleman, David. Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, 2010

BOOK: YOU ARE NOT SO SMART

McRaney, David, You Are Not So Smart 2011

BOOK: EVERYTHING IS OBVIOUS ONCE YOU KNOW THE ANSWER

Watts, Duncan J. Everything is Obvious Once You Know the Answer, 2011

PATENT TROLLING

Blumberg, Alex and Laura Sydell. When Patents Attack, NPR, 7/26/2011

PURITY, CLEANLINESS, AND MORALITY

Schnall, Simone. A Sense Of Cleanliness, Edge 12/5/2010

METAPHORS, MODELS, AND THEORIES

Schneider, Stephen.  Metaphors, Models & Theories, Edge 3/30/2008

THE FALL OF THE POST OFFICE

Sanburn, Josh. How the U.S. Postal Service Fell Apart, Time 11/17/2011

VOLATILITY IN THE COTTON MARKET: SPECULATION OR EMERGING MARKET DEMAND?

Hall, Kevin G. Speculators drive cotton price volatility, hurting farmers and consumers, McClatchy 11/30/2011

LEGAL HAZARDOUS EMISSIONS

Berkes, Howard. A town on the Kansas prairie finds itself fighting not only a local cement, Slate 11/10/2011

SHORTAGE OF BLUE COLLAR WORKERS?

Kotkin, Joel. Wanted: Blue-Collar Workers, New Geography, 12/10/2011

WHAT TO DO WITH ABANDONED NEIGHBORHOODS

Smith, David. The un-building of un-growing cities: Part 3, reusing the components, Affordable Housing Institute 11/11/2011

DEMOLISHING FORECLOSED PROPERTIES

Dennis, Brady. Banks turn to demolition of foreclosed properties to ease housing-market pressures, The Washington Post 10/12/2011

DECISION FATIGUE

Tierney, John.  Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?, New York Times 8/17/2011

THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS NOT RELATED TO ELECTION RESULTS

The change in the rate during the election year, however, is related.
Silver, Nate. Which Economic Indicators Best Predict Presidential Elections?, New York Times 11/18/2011

DISCLOSURES, SANCTIONS, AND ETHICS

Bazerman, Max. Stumbling Into Bad Behavior, New York Times 4/20/2011

VIOLENT CRIME AND SELF DEFENSE

Harris, Sam. Sam Harris on Self Defense, 11/5/2011

IGNORING BAD BEHAVIOR

Brooks, David. Let’s All Feel Superior, New York Times 11/15/2011

DETROIT DECLINE OR OPPORTUNITY?

Staley, Willy. What's Really Pornographic? The Point of Documenting Detroit, The Awl 9/1/2011

FAST FOOD AS A COMMODITY

Staley, Willy. A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage, http://www.theawl.com/ 11/9/2011

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND UNDESIRABLE JOBS

Dwoskin, Elizabeth. Why Americans Won't Do Dirty Jobs, http://www.businessweek.com/ 11/9/2011