Re:Aleksey Vayner Has Died at 29
by qohen on Friday January 25, 2013 @01:36PM
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I remember an anecdote of a bagel delivery man that calculated
I expect it was about Paul Feldman -- it was a very interesting story -- the guy was an MIT-trained economist who, in frustration at getting nowhere at a certain point in his career, gave it up to deliver bagels, etc. to companies every day and he collected data on people's behavior when it came to leaving payments.
The following NY Times Magazine article is by the Freakonomics duo about him (the story made it into the Freakonomics book):
I expect it was about Paul Feldman -- it was a very interesting story -- the guy was an MIT-trained economist who, in frustration at getting nowhere at a certain point in his career, gave it up to deliver bagels, etc. to companies every day and he collected data on people's behavior when it came to leaving payments.
The following NY Times Magazine article is by the Freakonomics duo about him (the story made it into the Freakonomics book):
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/06/magazine/what-the-bagel-ma...
PDF of the same article from one of the authors (i.e. a non-nytimes.com link):
http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/WhatTheBagelMa...