James D. Miller
EconomicProf@yahoo.com
| Amazon's POD Policy Threatens Its Value | Better Investing Magazine | 8/08 |
| Wealthy Colleges: Ante Up | BusinessWeek.com | 6/04/08 |
| Bear on the Run | Better Investing Magazine | 6&7/08 |
| Your Very Strange Asset | Better Investing Magazine | 5/08 |
| Massachusetts Should Tax Harvard | Inside Higher Ed | 5/19/08 |
| Cuts Always of Interest to Investors | Better Investing Magazine | 4/08 |
| Subprime Suspects | Better Investing Magazine | 3/08 |
| Quantum Leaps in Wealth Creation | Better Investing Magazine | 2/08 |
| Stimulating Ideas | TCS Daily | 1/15/08 |
| Microsoft’s Strategy with HealthVault | Better Investing Magazine | 1/08 |
| Branded Unsafe | Better Investing Magazine | 11/07 |
| Thousand Chinese Einsteins Every Year | TCS Daily | 10/2/07 |
| The Implications of Crowdsourcing | Better Investing Magazine | 10/07 |
| Beyond Merit Pay and Student Evaluations | Inside Higher Ed | 9/7/07 |
| A Deer Price to Curb Global Warming | Better Investing Magazine | 9/07 |
| Markets for Predictions | Better Investing Magazine | 8/07 |
| Bogle Explains the Math Behind Indexing | Better Investing Magazine | 7/07 |
| The Free Market Case Against the Immigration Bill | TCS Daily | 6/1/07 |
| With Genetic Discrimination Ban, Odds Could Be in Your Favor | Better Investing Magazine | 6/07 |
| Aging Difficulties | Better Investing Magazine | 5/07 |
| The Benefits and Costs of Transparency | Better Investing Magazine | 3/07 |
| Price Controls for Pills | Better Investing Magazine | 2/07 |
| Free the Elderly | TCS Daily | 1/31/07 |
| A Minimum of Understanding | TCS Daily | 1/10/07 |
| Why Poison Pills are Bad Medicine | Better Investing Magazine | 1/07 |
| Silicon Medicine | Better Investing Magazine | 12/06 |
| Face Value | Better Investing Magazine | 11/06 |
| The Internet Has a Knack for Niches | Better Investing Magazine | 10/06 |
| It’s About Time | Better Investing Magazine | 9/06 |
| Saying No to Stock Boycotts | Better Investing Magazine | 8/06 |
| Lurking Risk | Better Investing Magazine | 7/06 |
| How Price Discrimination Works | Better Investing Magazine | 6/06 |
| Is Google Uncoachable? | Better Investing Magazine | 5/06 |
| War Games 2006 | TCS Daily | 4/14/06 |
| Getting Mexico on Our Side | TCS Daily | 4/4/06 |
| Which Colleges Will Make the Grade? | Better Investing Magazine | 4/06 |
| Elevating Elephants | TCS Daily | 3/14/06 |
| A Star System for Technology | Better Investing Magazine | 3/06 |
| Hey, Harvard, Hire Me! | TCS Daily | 2/22/06 |
| How To Fight RateMyProfessor.com | Inside Higher Ed | 1/30/06 |
| Exposing Moral Free-Riders | TCS Daily | 1/20/06 |
| The Index Fund's Risk Advantage | Better Investing Magazine | 1/06 |
| Fund Stars Hard To Spot From Ratings | Better Investing Magazine | 12/05 |
| The Conduct of Standards Wars | Better Investing Magazine | 11/05 |
| The Futility of Battling Internet Piracy | Better Investing Magazine | 10/05 |
| Feelers vs. Thinkers | Tech Central Station | 10/03/05 |
| Barriers to Google's Future | Better Investing Magazine | 9/05 |
| Make San Francisco the Leftwing Paradise It Hopes to Be | Tech Central Station | 8/29/05 |
| The Singular Sensation | Tech Central Station | 8/15/05 |
| Charging for Content: The Coming Test | Better Investing Magazine | 8/05 |
| French-ifying Retail America | Tech Central Station | 6/9/05 |
| Outsourcing Teaching | Tech Central Station | 5/27/05 |
| Campaign Money for Bloggers | Tech Central Station | 5/16/05 |
| Bulls#@* and the Academic Left | Tech Central Station | 5/3/05 |
| The Science Haters | Tech Central Station | 4/6/05 |
| Academia's religion | Orlando Sentinel | 4/3/05 |
| Harvard Forgives Larry Summers | Tech Central Station | 4/1/05 |
| The Coming War on Blogs | Tech Central Station | 3/25/05 |
| Let the Students Vote | Tech Central Station | 3/17/05 |
| Our Battery-Powered Economy | Tech Central Station | 3/14/05 |
| Ward Churchill: Republican Civil Rights Pioneer | Tech Central Station | 2/24/05 |
| Will Blogs Produce a Chilling Effect? | Tech Central Station | 2/14/05 |
| Explaining Brad and Jennifer-and Rich Men and Secretaries | Orange County Register | 2/06/05 |
| The Importance of Brad and Jennifer... | Tech Central Station | 1/31/05 |
| Social Security's Uncertain Future | Orlando Sentinel | 1/30/05 |
| The Depolarizing Power of the Blogosphere | Tech Central Station | 1/17/05 |
| Why is James Glassman Worried? | Tech Central Station | 1/03/05 |
| The Economics of Gift Giving | Tech Central Station | 12/23/04 |
| How to Determine Whether Social Security Privatization Will Succeed | Tech Central Station | 12/21/04 |
| Republicans Shouldn't Fear Eliminating Judicial Filibusters | Tech Central Station | 12/16/04 |
| Freedom Bonuses: Welcoming Gifts for Ukraine | Tech Central Station | 12/03/04 |
| Fear Not the Risky Scheme | Tech Central Station | 11/22/04 |
| Database Blues? | Tech Central Station | 11/15/04 |
| Should We Fear 'Cosmetic Neurology' | Tech Central Station | 10/29/04 |
| A Trillion Lies | Tech Central Station | 9/28/04 |
| Top Ten Tips for Bush | Tech Central Station | 9/23/04 |
| If You Can't Beat 'Em, Co-Opt 'Em | Tech Central Station | 9/13/04 |
| The World's Best College | Tech Central Station | 8/24/04 |
| A Billion for Bin Laden | Tech Central Station | 8/09/04 |
| Don't Worry About the Future | Tech Central Station | 7/15/04 |
| Free Market Tariffs | Tech Central Station | 6/30/04 |
| Try being a conservative on a college campus in Mass | Forbes Magazine | 6/07/04 |
| Google's "Winner's Curse" | Tech Central Station | 5/04/04 |
| An Empire? You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet | Tech Central Station | 4/14/04 |
| Should Massachusetts Be Allowed to Outsource Jobs? | Tech Central Station | 3/26/04 |
| Fear Not Outsourcing, Knowledge Workers | Tech Central Station | 3/04/04 |
| Compassionate Conservatism for the Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma | Tech Central Station | 2/25/04 |
| Wasting Away Again in Free-Riderville | Tech Central Station | 2/09/04 |
| A Solution to the President's Immigration Plan | Tech Central Station | 1/22/04 |
| Why Nader Should Run | Tech Central Station | 1/14/04 |
| An Anti-Terrorism Defense Fund | Tech Central Station | 1/5/04 |
| Don't Try Saddam | Tech Central Station | 12/30/03 |
| Power To the People? | Tech Central Station | 12/22/03 |
| China's Chance to Conquer Taiwan | Tech Central Station | 12/05/03 |
| Doing Well By Taking Revenge | Tech Central Station | 11/25/03 |
| Libertarians and Gay Marriage | Tech Central Station | 11/19/03 |
| Shaking up the electoral college for Massachusetts | The Beacon Hill Institute | 11/10/03 |
| American Hegemony | Tech Central Station | 10/29/03 |
| Saudi Terror Insurance | Tech Central Station | 10/24/03 |
| Needed: A U.S. Foreign Legion | Tech Central Station | 9/25/03 |
| Markets Reward Eco-Terror. So Let's Fix Them. | Tech Central Station | 8/28/03 |
| Robot Economics | Tech Central Station | 8/19/03 |
| More Equal Than Others | Tech Central Station | 8/7/03 |
| Brand Matters | Tech Central Station | 7/10/03 |
| A Recipe for Growth | Tech Central Station | 5/29/03 |
| North Korean Extremes | Tech Central Station | 5/7/03 |
| Digital Communism | National Review Online | 5/06/03 |
| Information Sexternalities | Tech Central Station | 4/24/03 |
| The CIA/Zionist Plot | Tech Central Station | 4/16/03 |
| Economic Mecca | Tech Central Station | 4/10/03 |
| French Freeze | Tech Central Station | 4/02/03 |
| Bathroom Duty | Tech Central Station | 3/25/03 |
| Future Search | Tech Central Station | 3/7/03 |
| Valentine's Day Trap | Tech Central Station | 2/14/03 |
| Harvard Via eBay | Tech Central Station | 1/24/03 |
| The Get-Rich-Slow Scheme | Tech Central Station | 1/8/03 |
| Marginal Benefits | Tech Central Station | 11/21/02 |
| To Nuke, Or Not to Nuke? | Tech Central Station | 10/21/02 |
| Let Lawyers Help Fight Terror | The Weekly Standard | 10/21/02 |
| Let Hollywood Hack | Tech Central Station | 8/22/02 |
| Deep Links? No Way! | Tech Central Station | 5/13/02 |
| Blogging: An Economist's View | Tech Central Station | 4/10/02 |
| Credible Threats | The Weekly Standard | 3/11/02 |
| National Security First | National Review Online | 1/23/02 |
| Campus Colors | National Review Online | 12/19/01 |
| The Marketplace of Faith | National Review Online | 11/12/01 |
| Airport Security | National Review Online | 10/30/01 |
| The Patient's Right Not To Sue | The Weekly Standard | 8/13/01 |
| If We Can’t Choose Our School... | FrontPageMag.com | 7/13/01 |
| Can Intellectual Property Be Protected Without Invading Privacy? | FoxNews.com | 7/4/01 |
| Pirates of the Future (Same as above.) | The Weekly Standard | 7/2/01 |
| Games Countries Play | The Weekly Standard | 5/21/01 |
| The Pros and cons of Partially Privatizing Social Security | Orlando Sentinel | 3/25/01 |
| A Modest Proposal: Allow Women to Pay for College in Eggs | Dismal.com | 10/13/00 |
| A First-Rate Aid Plan For Third World Countries | Orlando Sentinel | 9/24/00 |
| Brain Arbitrage: The Next Internet Frontier | Dismal.com | 9/12/00 |
| Genetic Testing and Health Insurance | Dismal.com | 8/17/00 |
| Let Them Eat Patents | The Weekly Standard | 7/31/00 |
| Strategies For Pricing Internet Content | SIIA Trends Report | 7/24/00 |
Books
Principles of Microeconomics
Published by McGraw-Hill on 2/08.
Game Theory at Work: How to Use Game Theory to Outthink and Outmaneuver Your Competition.
Published by McGraw-Hill on 4/03.
CNBC.com Articles
Published between December 1999-March 2001
Internet: Game Theory. Hunting For Interactive-TV Profits. Put SS Money in the Market. Profit Pipe Dream for Many E-Tailers. Why Hoaxes Work in Efficient Markets. Investors Must Adapt to SEC Rule Change. Deep Pockets Don't Matter. Patent Expiry No Threat to Drug Stocks. The Net Threatens Credit Card Cos. Internet A Threat to Content Biz. Biometrics Will Boost Internet Profits. Bluetooth May Hit Hardware Profits. Beware Winner-Take-All Industries. Bush Retirement Plan Good for Stocks. New Rules for the Wireless Web. Long View Affects Day Traders, Too. Web Content Won’t Always Be Free. OPINION: Microsoft's Best Defense. Surprise! Net Stocks are Rate Sensitive. "Bundling" Doesn't Always Boost Profits. Priceline Favors Sellers Not Buyers. Miller: Markets Reward Diversification. Commentary: Beware of High Fixed Costs.
A Republican nominee for the Massachusetts State Senate in 2004.
Education
University of Chicago, Ph.D. (Economics) 1997
Dissertation Committee: Gary Becker (Chair), Richard Posner, William Landes and Michael Chwe.
Stanford Law School, J.D. 1992
Member of the Stanford Law Review
Member of the Federalist Society
Yale University, M.A. (Economics) 1989
Wesleyan University, B.A. 1988
TV Appearances Radio Interviews Academic Writings Current Employment
WGBY, PBS New England. 10/24/04. Discussed gay marriage.
Nitebeat, CN8, Boston. 8/11/03. Debated living wages.
Nitebeat, CN8, Boston. 7/9/03. Debated intellectual property.
The O'Reilly Factor, FoxNews. 6/20/03. Interviewed for 5 minutes.
Scarborough Country, MSNBC. 6/11/03. Interviewed for 6 minutes.
NPR, The Bryant Park Project, 3/10/08. Spoke for 8 minutes on political strategy and super-delegates.
NPR, The Bryant Park Project, 11/23/07. Spoke for 8 minutes on strategy and the writers’ strike.
The O'Reilly Factor radio show. 4/6/05. Interviewed for 5 minutes.
www.Righttalk.com. 10/29/04. Interviewed for 25 minutes by Mal Kline.
WHMP, Northampton MA. 8/10/04. Interviewed for 8 minutes.
WHMP, Northampton MA. 5/28/04. Interviewed for 8 minutes.
WHMP, Northampton MA. 5/10/04. Interviewed for 8 minutes.
WAIC, Springfield, MA, NewsMakers. 1/24/04. Interviewed for 20 minutes.
WAIC, Springfield, MA, The Tony Gil show. 7/30/03. Interviewed for 30 minutes.
WROL, Boston 950 AM, Don Feder. 7/22/03. Interviewed for 20 minutes.
WHMP, Northampton MA. 6/24/03. Interviewed for 6 minutes.
Powerful Living, World Talk Radio. 5/2/03. Interviewed for 30 minutes about Game Theory at Work.
Business Radio 650 AM Houston, Texas. 4/15/03. Interviewed for 8 minutes about Game Theory at Work.
The Garrison Show. 4/9/03. Audience over 500,000. Interviewed for 20 minutes.
KRLA, Los Angeles. Mark Larson host. 3/28/03. Interviewed for 10 minutes.
Business Radio 650 AM Houston, Texas. 3/27/03. Interviewed for 10 minutes.
"Behind the News" with Roy Masters heard on 125 radio stations. 3/24/03. Interviewed for one hour.
Truth Inducement In Greek Myth. Syllecta Classica. (2002) Written with Debbie Felton.
Using Greek Mythology To Teach Game Theory. The American Economist. (2003) Written with Debbie Felton.
Creating A Subpoena-Proof Diary JLIT, 10/31/01. Written with Lixin Gao.
Perjury and Information Weighting, 21 International Review of Law and Economics 329 (2001).
Using Lotteries To Expand The Range of Litigation Settlements, 26 Journal of Legal Studies 69 (1997).
Power Markets: Transferring Systematic Risk to Lottery Players. 23(2) Public Budgeting and Finance 118 (2003). Written with Matt Morey.
Smith College, Associate Professor of Economics
Courses Taught: introductory microeconomics, introductory microeconomics with calculus applications, intermediate microeconomics, law and economics, game theory, interpreting financial news.