Category: fun

Song of the day: “Non-convex desires”, by John DiNardo

Today’s song is by an amateur musician and professional (academic) economist (a winning combination anytime!), John DiNardo. You can listen to “Non-convex desires” here (in .mp3 format) and you can read an approximation of its lyrics here (compared to the audio version linked above, you will notice some permutation in the early verses, some slightly changed words and the last verse left entirely for future research :-)).
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EU beer drinking profiles

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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