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Econlinks for 21 Oct ’07

Preston McAfee brings a second noteworthy innovation to Economic Inquiry (I also blogged about the first one since he came as editor to that journal): “We now have a miscellany section.

A paper in Economics which is not rejected should not be published

Ariel Rubinstein

Try a free “publish or perish” software. Though it does pretty much the same (and only that, as far as I had time to test…) as scholar.google.com

Rules vs. discretion: Posner continues Becker‘s entry on rules versus discretion in the context of central banks’ decisions, but by doing so he also provides an excellent general discussion on the law and economics of the subject.

reasons not to be a lazy (…lousy) editor– from Steven Levitt’s (JPE editor) experiences
Hill against Bill, on globalization. Not difficult to guess whom I prefer (yes, he still made perfect sense when addressing globalization in this recent speech I’ve attended, hence I think that the “marital disorder” in that couple is permanent)… In fact that is old news by now, since lately all the prominent Dems are really having a race to the bottom in terms of basic economics know-how.