I had already a quote for this week, so the following will be the quote for the weekend:
Kevin Murphy holds comparative advantage in all forms of production.
Read all 10 top facts about Kevin Murphy :-).
Category: academia
The new RAE UK is out
…and for Economics and Econometrics, the quality profiles can be consulted here.
By strictly ranking percentages of research in the highest and respectively second highest research categories, the first 10 Econ Departments in UK RAE 2008 (not very unexpected) are the following:
- LSE
- UCL
- Essex, Oxford, Warwick
- Bristol, Nottingham, Queen Mary
- Cambridge
- Manchester
A bit of (interesting) Aarhus University history
I was away, in Amsterdam, on the occasion of the 80 years anniversary of the Aarhus University (AU); hence I’ve only read now the AU rector’s speech . It turns out to be quite informative and most of it has got a lot of sense, while remaining at the same time concise, rare species in terms of public speeches nowadays :-).
→ Read more Econlinks for the weekend
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This erotic-stimuli-influencing-spending might be more serious than I thought (see my earlier short comment to Tyler Cowen’s erotics of investing– 2nd bullet point). Although the researchers admit that all their conclusions rely on the men faced with a decision to be taken in a second or so… Yeah, then it could be very true :-).
Econlinks today
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Esther Duflo on a topic that deserves much more attention among policy makers: the need to insure the very poor against food price variability
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Here’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard so far, within the academic publishing business: deliberately slowing things down by sitting a whole month on each submission before doing anything with it.