In my last semester at the University of Kansas, I worked on two Honors projects to supplement my degrees in English and Economics. While I can't say these papers are the most-read documents in history, I think they're interesting. Or at least that's what I tell myself.

Middleton's Living City

My Honors thesis for my English degree focused on the playwright and satirist Thomas Middleton. While Shakespeare, a contemporary of his, set his plays in exotic locations and settings, Middleton's plays were mostly based in London, where he chronicled the changing class structure in the city. Also, they're hilarious. Download here or check it out at the KU's library, especially if you're strapped for cash.

Production in Major League Baseball

The creatively titled "Production in Major League Baseball" was a statistically-based paper investigating input choices and production functions in Major League Baseball. Basically, I challenged the assumption of the Hakes and Sauer paper "An Economic Evaluation of the Moneyball Hypothesis" that the "isoquants" in their proposed production function weren't straight lines (elasticity of substituion=infinity), but rather shaped more like right-angles (elasticity of substitution=0). If you've made it this far, you might as well read the whole thing here.

Epilogue

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