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Sequence of very welcome interviews by John Cassidy with several members of the “Chicago School”, about the status of Economics in the context of the current crisis, the Chicago School nowadays, the Milton Friedman legacy etc: interview with Richard Posner; Eugene Fama; John Cochrane; Gary Becker; Jim Heckman; Kevin Murphy; Raghuram Rajan; and Richard Thaler (my favourite interviews here are the ones with Murphy, Heckman, and Rajan).
Month: February 2010
Atlanta and ASSA grand finale
Right, almost two months since my visit to Atlanta, hence high time to wrap up and conclude.Briefly on Atlanta itself: ultimately not that appealing a city. In fact, probably the least interesting city I have visited in USA so far (caveat lector: I have deliberately avoided stuff a priori known to be dull), bar San Antonio, Texas (which might have changed since my trip there in ’04, but I doubt it).
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The Tilburg Univ “Econ Schools Ranking”. It is indeed using a rather decent pool of journals (for period 2004-2008) and moreover, you can construct your own top by choosing subsets of those journals (such as top 5 only, if you wish).
Indignation. Leila. Zigeunerweisen. Leila
For some reason I (once in a while) remember something Supachai Panichpakdi, then-WTO boss, said at a keynote speach in a Rotterdam conference celebrating 100 years since the birth of Jan Tinbergen (earlier on this blog, in Romanian): namely that we, then-PhD students in Economics, should stop reading [all sorts of books, papers etc.]
→ Read more In Memoriam L.H. Chen
For those of us who met him, Long Hwa came across as the soft-spoken, thoughtful Taiwanese; curious, but skeptical, about all-things Western. He brought with him his Asian wisdom, and enriched everybody’s horizon in a world where we care too much about details, and often ignore the essence.