You can’t manage what you don’t measure. That’s good advice, as far as it goes. But it has a dark underside: managing the measurement rather than actual outcomes. Over at the New York Times, Al Baker and Joseph Goldstein recount a troubling example. To keep reported crime rates low, New York’s Finest may be under [...]
Posts Tagged ‘New York City’
You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure Correctly, NYC Crime Edition
Posted in Data, Microeconomics, tagged Crime, Incentives, Measurement, New York City on January 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Cars vs. Pedestrians vs. Bikes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Life, New York City on June 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I am walking around my hometown of NYC today, so this video seems particularly apt. ht: kottke
Water Funds: Coase in South America (and New York)
Posted in Environment, Microeconomics, tagged Brazil, Coase, Colombia, Ecuador, Environment, New York City, Property, Water on October 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Rivers often create important resource conflicts. Downstream cities want clean water to drink. Upstream residents want to make a living, but that sometimes damages water quality. In the highlands above Quito, Ecuador, for example, residents often convert land to farming and ranching; that allows them to raise valuable crops and livestock, but weakens the land’s [...]
The Rubber Room
Posted in Business, Politics, tagged Education, New York City, New Yorker, Unions on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Over in the New Yorker, Steven Brill discusses “the battle over New York City’s worst teachers“: These fifteen teachers, along with about six hundred others in six larger Rubber Rooms in the city’s five boroughs, have been accused of misconduct, such as hitting or molesting a student, or, in some cases, of incompetence, in a [...]
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