Weekend econlinks

Acemoglu on how nations can get rich: “Fix incentives and you will fix poverty. And if you wish to fix institutions, you have to fix governments“

Blogossary. With some definitions completely redundant.

Carlsen is finally right where he should be. For now in Blitz.

Diploma mills and degree mills. Romania has plenty, Denmark at least one very famous case (though Wikipedia is too slow for that).

Caballero on sudden financial arrest. I don’t agree with everything: the moral hazard is not merely fuzzy reasoning in the context.

What’s up with all the vampire hype: Tyler Cowen’s answers. If you want the perspective of a vampire on why vampires are popular, you can meet me in private.

“If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you’re an idiot.” And many other smart thoughts from Umberto Eco (Part 1, Part 2).

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research: it exists (and seemingly functions well). Reminds me that I still have to read Edward Castronova’s “Synthetic Worlds”…

Undercover Michelin inspector. Clearly not such a flashy job as Anton Ego’s, but if they were to consider hiring part-time, amateur (willing to heavily train on-the-job, though) food inspectors, I would be very interested… 🙂

Very little time left for you to trade Romanian Potential President stock. You have to act NOW! 🙂