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- Manias and Mimesis: Applying Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles (2019) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3469465 9 comments
- 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (2007) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565 13 comments
- Government Surveillance and Internet Search Behavior https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2412564 28 comments
- The Perfect Crime (2005) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=691642 14 comments
- New Revealing paper on High Frequency Trading http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1641387 34 comments
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- Fable of the Keys. Famous Fables of Economics https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID1069950_code59984.pdf 2 comments design , finance , pdf
- New paper questions why anyone would still buy mutual funds. TLDR: lack of judicial oversight, perverse incentives, and a lack of financial sophistication in the typical fund investor. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4721496 9 comments investing
- Does Exclusionary Zoning Violate the Takings Clause? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4728312 8 comments law
- Inverted bond yields, interest rates, QT, recession. What does it all mean? should you pay attention? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=899538 28 comments wallstreetbets
- Meta-analysis of 46 studies (n = 141 550) showed that significantly more men stated that they would get vaccinated than women. This effect is evident in several countries around the world; the difference is bigger in health care workers than in the general population. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3803323 16 comments science
- New study compared to covid-19 cases with normal Vitamin D status, death was approximately 10.12 times more likely for Vitamin D deficient cases (OR=10.12; p less than 0.001) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3585561 3 comments science
- Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3561560 14 comments science
- A Study of the Effects of Legalization of Recreational Marijuana on Consumption of Cigarettes: legalizing recreational marijuana is associated with an increase in cigarette consumption by about 4-7%. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3508422 9 comments science
- Huawei Technologies’ Links to Chinese State Security Services https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3415726 3 comments technology
- I'm opening this paper up for comments before I submit it to law review; insight is greatly appreciated: DECENTRALIZED FINANCE ON THE ETHEREUM BLOCKCHAIN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3359732 39 comments ethereum
- The Duty to Disobey Illegal Nuclear Strike Orders - Anthony J. Colangelo https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3048979 364 comments philosophy
- Craig Wright on paternalism https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2993306 11 comments btc
- Encryption Work Arounds - Kerr & Schneier https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2938033 7 comments crypto
- Cartel Fines in Europe - Law, Practice and Deterrence http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=920786 4 comments europe
- ‘A Diamond is Forever’ and Other Fairy Tales: The Relationship between Wedding Expenses and Marriage Duration http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2501480&rec=1&srcabs=2473238&alg=1&pos=1 5 comments economy
- Some long overdue proof for the existence of the 'hot hand' http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2611987 12 comments nba
- Marriage duration is inversely associated with spending on the engagement ring and wedding ceremony http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2501480 822 comments science
- Professors Froomkin and Colangelo: Self Defense Against Robots http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2504325#.VC16RnaaziE.facebook 3 comments robotics
- Study: NBA teams playing at home win more games when they are DOWN by 1 point than UP by 1 point http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1305316 3 comments nba
- Expert explains why what Russia did with the Greenpeace´s ship is illegal. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2329446 3 comments worldnews
- Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2319992 4 comments philosophy
- An in-depth legal analysis about the possibility of armed drone strikes on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2230621 7 comments law
- 2009 paper by Harvard Law professor explains how thousands of viable drug candidates are quietly screened out by the pharmaceutical industry at pre-clinical stage due to insufficient patent protection http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1127742 28 comments politics
- How much do you have to make to justify law school (with multiple scenarios and discount rates) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1957139 22 comments law
- Cultural Cognition refers to the disposition to conform one’s beliefs about societal risks to one’s preferences for how society should be organized http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1017189 6 comments science
- Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1450006 3 comments programming
- A Biological Basis of Rights - Edwin S. Fruehwald http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1440247 6 comments philosophy
- Moralities are a Sign-Language of the Affects - A Paper http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2080307 5 comments philosophy
- Flash Cookies and Privacy II: Now with HTML5 and ETag Respawning http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1898390 3 comments netsec
- So What If Corporations Aren't People?- an article reviewing the arguments in defense of corporate personhood http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1873158 24 comments law
- What do economists know about open source software? [Journal article, in PDF] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1759976 7 comments opensource
- Our Perfect, Perfect Constitution - Professor Paulsen explains how our Constitution is perfect and how every Supreme Court interpretation of the Constitution is also perfectly perfect http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1763484&download=yes 3 comments law
- Predators Over Pakistan - Targeted killing by unmanned aerial vehicle is good anti-terrorist policy, legitimate self-defense. Obama is right to step up programme, needs to assert its legality more aggressively (PDF) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1561229 6 comments worldnews
- What's the TL;DR version of this? ie is there a simple rebuttal to "I've got nothing to hide [thus require no privacy]" http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565 14 comments politics
- Legal implications of the word fuck as well as its history http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=896790 4 comments freeculture