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The promise of prediction markets, as policy forum article in Science; many Econ Nobelists and future Nobelists on that list of authors… This is a follow up of a statement signed by equally prestigious researchers that I talked about a while ago.
Category: Denmark
(New) Danish cuisine
Yes, yes, I confirm: top Danish cuisine is resurrected and its outputs are nothing but extremely yummy… The NY Times has also got only praise for it (with assorted photos here).
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An older, but still very actual interview with Charles Plott on the value of experimental methods in Economics
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S. Pellegrino’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants for 2008. I plan to try number 10 (Noma, Copenhagen, the only Danish restaurant on the list) this year.
Is flexicurity an alternative for the French labour market?
Probably not, says Gilles Saint-Paul in his assessment of the recent labour market agreements from France. I agree (and strongly recommend Saint-Paul’s short but concise essay on VoxEU, one of my best readings this week).
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Findings, inter alia: Danes and Swedes are the true beer lovers; Romanians, the most generous beer drinkers, though I bet that only holds for Romanian-priced beer. What SABMiller’s sponsored descriptive study didn’t ask is what types of beer people actually prefer, across the EU countries; or perhaps their own brands did not fare well?
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