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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.

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Tough times for young economists

The Economist has also been at the ASSA-Atlanta (this year I’ve been busy with the more scientific, and less applied, section). Some other potential (academic) implications of the 20+ % less vacancies in ’09, compared to ’08 (and earlier):

the high time for places from Europe (in particular, Denmark and The Netherlands need to make the good moves right now…) to (seriously) tempt some (serious) top candidates (from both US and European prestigious schools).

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Sunday night econlinks

Good, Gelman is even more pissed off with Greenspun’s to-a-large-extent-nonsense than I was: 9th bullet point.

The culture of Old Europe (aka, new European Union…), via Gabi Istrate; I’ve also promised him I would carefully look at/comment on this: the promise is still there, the time– not yet… :-).

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Econlinks

The top 100 global thinkers, according to Foreign Policy. With the usual caveats: some should clearly not be there, others are missing (even from the first 5 positions, say…) etc.

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Weekend econlinks

Sharing information in scientific research: yes/no/when. Interesting, but the analysis here is applicable only in the context of some sciences (arguably, not most). Moreover, sharing by means of co-authorship is discussed at best indirectly (if one is willing to expand on their repeated interaction game thread…).

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