While I’ve been too busy in the last days and my “song of the day” rubrique hasn’t been updated for a while, the artist and song I propose today more than make make up for all that delay.
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The happiest man
An interesting material/ interview in The Independent about/with Matthieu Ricard, author of ‘Happiness: A Guide To Developing Life’s Most Important Skill’ and arguably the happiest man alive (at least according to the conclusions of research done by top neuroscientists at the University of Wisconsin).
→ Read more Best thing I’ve read in the last couple of weeks
….is John Rust’s Comments on Michael Keane’s “Structural vs. Atheoretic Approaches to Econometrics“. Perhaps too strong in some parts (though I can understand why), but simply great overall (inter alia, possibly the best defence of structural econometrics I’ve seen so far- for sure the clearest and most concise one).
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This is an interesting 6-page “review” of Levitt and Dubner’s “Freakonomics”, by Ariel Rubinstein (it is probably the most negative among the reviews of this book, that I’ve read so far).
→ Read more Song of the day: “In the death car”, by Goran Bregovic and Iggy Pop
Neither Goran Bregovic nor Iggy Pop needs any introduction- moreover I’ll write more about each of them and their music at some point(they happen to be in my top favourite artists, in general).
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