After a thought-provoking lecture yesterday by Daron Acemoglu on “Why Nations Fail” at Kellogg (if/when the previous link is replaced, you should be able to find the information on Acemoglu’s lecture here)*, I am soon off to Vancouver, attending/presenting at the 2011 Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) meeting.
→ Read more Month: April 2011
Econlinks: The Dale T. Mortensen Nobel edition
- The most recent event under this heading is the Northwestern conference in the honor of Dale— with some very good and some not so good presentations…– featuring also some very (and some not so) entertaining speeches by former Mortensen students, co-authors, advisers etc, either at the dinner at the Northwestern Allen Center on Friday evening, or at the drinks & snacks session at Beverly and Dale’s splendid home (photo with Ija on their balcony) on Saturday evening.
2011 San Pellegrino world top restaurant ranking
See here the top 1-50. And I am proud to note that I have tried by now 4 places in the 2011 world top 12, namely:
- Noma (1): been there twice already, see here impressions (and some pictures) from the first time, the second was a lunch in October last year– still have to get hold of those pictures online somewhere.
Romanian article of the week: Dan Tapalaga with “Best of Boc, Blaga, Paleologu”
This blogpost is only for those who can read Romanian (and ultimately really regards only those still interested in the political life, in particular concerned with various elections, in Romania– who are less and less every day, including here the Romanians themselves; a by-product of the article linked below is in fact providing a rationale to explain that trend).
→ Read more US Government shutdown menorah
…and some of us were worried about Portugal…
→ Read moreAt midnight, if the President and Congress have not reached an agreement on funding measures, the U.S. government will shutdown, referred to as a funding gap, until an agreement is reached to either extend a temporary funding measure or a final budget deal is made.