It's a gas! The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

Scientific Cat-nundrums This week, contracts won a Nobel prize. Or rather, economists  Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström were awarded the N...

Other people's computers

Zuckerberg covers his camera & mic Via Hackread The Internet of Things (IoT), which are devices connected to the internet, is gaining m...

Law & Economics - The Italian Edition

It was on the bus to the villa on the second day that it clicked - why there were only two faces I recognised at the conference.  The Europe...

Book Review: Arnold reviews "Economic Approaches to Intellectual Property"

Putting your own book out for review is a wee bit anxiety provoking, and this Kat was delighted when Richard Arnold very kindly agreed to re...

Innovation and its Discontents - Where are we heading?

Process Player Piano Stuart Rankin Borrowing from Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner's 2004 book, Innovation and its Discontents , an emerging d...

'Tis the Season - EPIP recap

Oh come, all ye faithful, for the late summer conference season is in full swing.  This Kat has two conferences down, and one to go, for a t...

Globalisation, Glocalisation, Glokatisation

International Cats! Cat in Bamboo, Hiroshima by Mirikitani, Smithsonian History tells us periods of globalisation do not come smoothly. Acco...