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reasons not to be a lazy (…lousy) editor– from Steven Levitt’s (JPE editor) experiences
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Hill against Bill, on globalization. Not difficult to guess whom I prefer (yes, he still made perfect sense when addressing globalization in this recent speech I’ve attended, hence I think that the “marital disorder” in that couple is permanent)… In fact that is old news by now, since lately all the prominent Dems are really having a race to the bottom in terms of basic economics know-how.
Month: July 2007
Quote for week 22nd-28th of July ’07
Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person’s obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic exceed his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic.
→ Read more Danes and names
I am sure you didn’t know about this one. On the site of Denmark Statistics (those guys that record everything about anything that has something to do with Denmark…) you can actually check how many Danes have a certain name, with both first and last name queries allowed, in 2006 and 2007.
→ Read more Best recent news in the Economics publishing business
Here’s what I would call a very welcome idea from the new editor of Economic Inquiry, Preston McAfee:
More insidious, in my view, is the gradual morphing of the referees from evaluators to anonymous co-authors.
→ Read more Celebrate: Checkers is solved!
In today’s Science online: wonderful title, wonderful article, wonderful research. Took quite a while, but the victory is sweet indeed…
“If two players face off at checkers and neither makes a wrong move, then the game will inevitably end in a draw.
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