… hosted by the Wall Street Journal. The two debaters are established stars of the Economics academe, despite being relatively young still, Daron Acemoglu and respectively, Edward Glaeser (by the way, I bet on Ed Glaeser winning this edition’s (2007) John Bates Clark Medal– it is also his last chance, given the rules regarding the age of the recipient; Daron Acemoglu was the latest winner, two years ago).
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Econlinks for 15-03-’07
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Quite an interesting article in last week’s print edition of The Economist about divorce as a business. Essence: it really matters where the divorce is pronounced (tip: don’t choose England if you’re the rich(er) spouse…).
Sometimes learning is costly…but always worthwhile!
This is about a nice interview with Economics Nobel Laureate Myron Scholes, in the WSJ Editorial Page. I think the way the interviewer introduces Scholes is just great:
You know him better as a winner of the Nobel Prize in economics.
→ Read more Quote for the week 4th to 10th of March ’07
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
Web 2.0 in less than 5 minutes or ‘Digital Cultural Anthropology’
I bet no one would fall asleep in this sort of presentations.
Thanks to Paul for the link.