Reference:  Kerness, Bonnie.  “Solitary Confinement Torture in the U.S.” 1998.  http://sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/98-09%20FALL/solitary.html
            In her article about the implementation of solitary confinement and sensory deprivation in federal and state prisons, Kerness argues that the array of negative side effects potentially realized by those subjected to this form of treatment far outweighs the benefits afforded to society by […]

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Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila. “College Admissions with Affirmative Action.” International Journal of Game Theory; 2005, Vol. 33 Issue 4, p535-549, 15p
 
The College Admissions game is very similar to the real estate game that we discussed in class. The difference is that in the real estate game, each buyer has a set valuation for every house […]

Digg: The Most Efficient Way to Waste Your Time
Digg.com is a social bookmarking website that allows users to submit links with a description to a variety of categories. If users like the submission, they can click the “digg” button, or if they dislike it, they can click the “bury” button. The article discusses how Digg.com […]

“Managing the strengths of ties for internationalization: lessons from four rapidly internationalized Chinese SMEs”, September 2006, Journal of Asia Business Studies
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This article examines the internationalization efforts of SMEs (”small and medium enterprises”, or small businesses) in China. Previous research in this field has focused only on the internationalization of large businesses, viewing SMEs as […]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21264673-7582,00.html 
 In the upcoming weeks, The Australian Communication and Media Authority must decide how to auction the spectra for two new television channels (we call them A and B). The two methods being considered are an open outcry ascending auction and a sealed-bid auction. In the past, similar auctions (for FM radio licenses, for example) have […]

http://www.cmu.edu/joss/content/articles/volume2/Bonacich.html
This article was taken from the Journal of Social Structure, an online journal on social structure, and provides an in depth look at almost the exact same information that we have been learning about in class. The purpose of the paper is to do look at the various types of social structures and the way […]

In lecture we began talking about power in networks and the characteristics of nodes that might lead to power. Dependence, exclusion, satiation, and betweenness were all cited as being typical traits of powerful nodes. The research that identified these traits was based on experiments in which humans bargained over money, with the most powerful nodes […]

The auction abstraction is applicable to many different areas.  One interesting are is in the sports world where the free agency process plays a large role (if the league’s collective bargaining agreement allows for this) in where players end up and how teams perform.  The sellers are the players themselves and the buyers are the […]

This article (http://www.inc.com/magazine/19950301/2182_Printer_Friendly.html) from Inc.com discusses the new industry model in Hollywood, that of small businesses connected in a network. The article discusses how more and more outsourcing is being used to put together different parts of a movie in different areas with different companies taking the helm of the mini-projects that come together. This […]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17176086/
 
The article listed above discusses the decreasing role of specialists in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Within the past few months, the number of traders on floor of the stock exchange has dropped from 3,000 to 2,100. The cause of this decrease in specialists is due to the increased dependence on electric transfers. In […]