… performed by a fantastic crew of the Queensland Ballet, on their European Tour. François Klaus’s choreography is pure genius work, while William Barton is a most fascinating didgeridu virtuoso and composer (not to mention that he also proved to possess great vocal skills and to play top guitar).
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My whereabouts
From tomorrow till Sunday I’ll be attending the Conference on “Structural Models of the Labor Market and Policy Analysis” at Sandbjerg, inter alia meeting once again several friends/ co-authors/ mentors. Ex ante, the program looks great, notwithstanding my non-presenter role this time (unlike the analogous conference last November, in London). → Read more
My first (and last) public karaoke performance
…represents the validation of my long held opinion that I have no comparative advantage whatsoever in this area. My team partner for this impromptu exercise, Ian Walker, among other things the current editor-in-chief of Labour Economics, performed rather reasonably, but there was no chance to ultimately rank decently among the brave competitors– my colleague economists from the Aarhus School of Business, some of them natural born karaoke stars– precisely because of teaming up with yours truly.
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To blurb or not to blurb, this is the new question…
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Pigovian taxation on everybody’s understanding, by Greg Mankiw
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Denmark at the frontier once again (with Tyler Cowen spotting it very fast): free gym membership as long as you show up every time…
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Beer or wine and science (this is really fun, by the way and perhaps expected?
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 :-).
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