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Interesting article (via Tyler Cowen, on MR) on the economics of the late Alexander Solzhenitsyn, by C. Bohanon (written a while ago). The recent obituary for him in The Economist seems to openly ignore some of the conclusions emerging from Bohanon’s analysis…
Category: publishing
Econlinks for the weekend
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This erotic-stimuli-influencing-spending might be more serious than I thought (see my earlier short comment to Tyler Cowen’s erotics of investing– 2nd bullet point). Although the researchers admit that all their conclusions rely on the men faced with a decision to be taken in a second or so… Yeah, then it could be very true :-).
Econlinks today
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Esther Duflo on a topic that deserves much more attention among policy makers: the need to insure the very poor against food price variability
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Here’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard so far, within the academic publishing business: deliberately slowing things down by sitting a whole month on each submission before doing anything with it.
Econlinks today
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Why the Bayesian statistician cannot stand Bayesian statistics: I actually thought he meant it… for a few seconds. Best academic April 1st prank this year.
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“Insead, for example, has set up a virtual campus on Second Life, to complement its physical campuses in Fontainebleau, France, and in Singapore.
Peer review how-to
The Science edition from the 4th of Jan had two extremely interesting short essays published in the “letters” section. You can read them both on the first page of this PDF.
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