→ Read moreSo the loud cough, most likely completely unconscious, is a way of saying “I can’t handle this, folks. You all may be crowding round Mahler’s deathbed for one final intimate confession.
Month: November 2009
Econlinks
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Endless Summers (via Mankiw). Supercilious he might well be, but some of us still find him absolutely fascinating– I think I am (in the process of) understanding why :-). Earlier (first bullet point).
Vedrai vedrai…
An old, but eternal, musical masterpiece to start the week, with a well-preserved Luigi Tenco live performance video clip from the 60’s. Lyrics.
→ Read more Grazie, Elena– it is indeed high time I was reminded of Tenco’s superb voice and style.
Weekend Econlinks
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“Famous economists” easy quiz. In fact too easy, as presented, because you can see the questions before you start the clock. So, in order to seriously test yourselves, just start the clock and then read the questions (you have 3 minutes in total).
The new Danish ranking of journals
Ridiculous, if you ask me (needless to state, this is a very personal opinion). Unfortunately, in Economics (you find that category under “Samfundsøkonomi” in the linked pdf), there will be many years till Denmark will catch up with the best places in the Netherlands, for instance (see here an Economics journal ranking of the Tinbergen Institute (TI) , which has its imperfections– such as Journal of Finance placed in the ‘AA’ category… — but it is way way better), in competitiveness, attitude in this context etc.
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