-
Eric Maskin on the financial crisis (Mankiw, Cheaptalk and MR link to this interview, among others). Maskin is one of the smartest persons alive, so this is mandatory– a must read in particular for those who’d like to crucify all economic theorists :-).
Category: publishing
Econlinks
-
A summary of the debate “What’s wrong with macroeconomics?” The debate goes on.
-
Terry Tao’s presentation of Perelman’s solution to Poincaré’s conjecture. There are chances you still won’t understand much, but this is way better than attempting to directly digest Perelman’s original articles :-).
Weekend econlinks
-
The other side of scientific publishing: the Editor’s perspective. In this case nothing to complain about (au contraire: e.g., see earlier): if only most editors (cross-disciplinary) would follow on McAfee’s steps… unfortunately, plenty of counterexamples around, such as the editors involved here
-
Steven Shreve on working with models in the finance world.
Publishing Scientific Comments: The Pain, the Horror, the Frustration
This is absolutely amazing. I mean, of course it is absolutely awful for the researcher in question, but great that he took the pain to write it down: should be recommended reading for any (aspiring) scientist.
→ Read more Econlinks
-
Always wise thoughts from the one and only Kevin Murphy . If for some reason you haven’t heard of him yet, all you need to know is that Murphy holds comparative advantage in all forms of production.