Yeah, yeah, yeah… I am extremely busy and promised several VIPs who read my blog (I am flattered!) that I would focus fully on research, so the posting frequence has (to) decrease(d) somewhat.
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Easterly on Randomized Evaluation
By far the best read of the current week (as yet, but looks incredibly difficult to surpass this):
→ Read moreHere’s an imagined dialogue between the two sides on Randomized Evaluation (RE) based on this book:FOR: Amazing RE power lets us identify causal effect of project treatment on the treated.
On U2’s poverty of music trap
“We will be lending African musicians to U2 to try to refurbish their sound to satisfy the urgent and growing needs for diversionary entertainment at a time of crisis in the global music and financial sectors.”
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Acemoglu on how nations can get rich: “Fix incentives and you will fix poverty. And if you wish to fix institutions, you have to fix governments“
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Blogossary. With some definitions completely redundant.
Songwriters as innovators
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Irving Berlin and Cole Porter were two of the great experimental songwriters of the Golden Era. They aimed to create songs that were clear and universal. Their ability to do this improved throughout much of their careers, as their skill in using language to create simple and poignant images improved with experience, and their greatest achievements came in their 40s and 50s.