Economists Are Pretty Smart
A piece this morning in the Wall Street Journal (popular with you college-bound kids, I know) talks about a meeting of the American Economics Association and its creation of a matchmaker -- a market matching economists and college/university professor jobs.
(You'll need a WSJ online subscription to read the whole article. Or look at page A2 of the print edition.)
What's interesting is that the economists use ideas from online dating to limit the amount of contact between job seekers and those schools they want to work for.
(Think about it: are the people with 10,000 friends on mySpace really friends with that many people?)
We see a lot of similarities between the ideas in this article and our own work here at U Sphere: a market is being created right now for buyers and sellers of a college education.
(You'll need a WSJ online subscription to read the whole article. Or look at page A2 of the print edition.)
What's interesting is that the economists use ideas from online dating to limit the amount of contact between job seekers and those schools they want to work for.
(Think about it: are the people with 10,000 friends on mySpace really friends with that many people?)
We see a lot of similarities between the ideas in this article and our own work here at U Sphere: a market is being created right now for buyers and sellers of a college education.
posted by Dave Van de Walle at
7:12 AM
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