The song of the weekend is John and Taupin’s great “Rocket Man“. And although I like a lot Kate Bush’s version as well, nothing can ever compare to Bill Shatner’s theatrical rendition of this masterpiece (superb youtube old videoclip, with an introduction by Bernie Taupin).
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Econlinks today
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Problems of Interplanetary and Interstellar Trade. Indeed, somebody had to start researching on this topic, at some point :-). Here’s the part I like best in the concluding remarks: “Perhaps, the establishment of a solar system monetary union would permit the free flow of capital […]”
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Giuseppe Bertola on why offshoring and immigrant employment are good, using the Italian context.
A well deserved Pulitzer and pearls before lunch…
I must be the most ignorant person ever: I’ve only found out today (via Terry Tao) that this superb article by Gene Weingarten, “Pearls before breakfast“, likely the best I’ve ever read in the Washington Post, won a well deserved Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing about a month ago.
→ Read more 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 :-)).
→ Read more Time to study: MIT Open Courseware
It is old news by now, but for those of you who did not know (and especially for all students among you, undergraduates and graduates alike), MIT made available online extensive material for no less than 1800 courses from their curriculum.
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