[…] I must out of courtesy and caution reserve judgment on any laws that Professor Stigler may unveil. For, as I learned when our friendship began long ago, George Stigler can do anything– anything but be boring.
Category: politics
Econlinks: The ‘Economics and Reality’ edition
- Harald Uhlig has an interesting recent paper entitled “Economics and Reality” (intentionally recalling Sims’s 1980 ECMA, indeed) . While he discusses the relationship between Economics and Reality (yep, isn’t that what you all hope to hear?)
Sunday night econlinks
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Good, Gelman is even more pissed off with Greenspun’s to-a-large-extent-nonsense than I was: 9th bullet point.
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The culture of Old Europe (aka, new European Union…), via Gabi Istrate; I’ve also promised him I would carefully look at/comment on this: the promise is still there, the time– not yet… :-).
Sunday econlinks
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One of the reasons I just love reading Landsburg: he is acid and funny. Here’s something that hopefully will open a longer exchange between him and Krugman: I really think Steve Landsburg is the proper counterpart to Paul Krugman in any debate (NB: Mankiw is great, but too serious and not engaging–understandably– enough in the type of debate Krugman seems to love).
Prediction markets for the upcoming Romanian Presidential election
I opened up two distinct markets (with the help of InklingMarkets— hat tip to Al Roth, on Market Design), both active until November 21st (the first election round is on November 22nd, the eventual second one on December 6th) :