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A WSJ article by Reinhart and Rogoff, on what past crises around the world might teach us for the current crisis. It really ain’t lookin’ that good… I have obviously attended Ken Rogoff’s presentation of this research at the recent ASSA in San Francisco.
Category: art
Quantifying artistic value
This is about a very interesting, though quite controversial at the same time, project of David Galenson, economic historian at the University of Chicago: quantifying 20th century artwork based on market and visual citations.
→ Read more The Big Apple and The Island. And some good Econ research in Boston
Yes, I admit: my blog has been somewhat neglected recently… And unfortunately it will still be in that situation for a while, since I’m in the middle of some conferences and workshops in the US (plus it is summer and awfully hot here).
→ Read more Most promising photoblog in the ROblosphere
True talent is true talent and you can’t pass by without noticing it. So I decided not to. In my (always subjective, of course) opinion Cristina Grosan’s photoblog is the very best (young) photoblog I had the chance to fall upon, within the Romanian blogosphere.
→ Read more To admire: Women through the ages
A treat for Saturday afternoon: creativity+ superlative art + modern technology=3 minute video overview of 500 years of female portraits in Western Art– with a most appropriate Bach’s ‘Sarabande”, interpreted by Yo-Yo Ma, in the background.
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