The First Report of the European Research Area Board.
Now, overall this looks like a great step ahead and I would like to see it indeed as a commitment (by the ERAB, the Commission, the relevant decision makers).
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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 :-).
The connoisseur of prostitution
Likely no good economist, surely a bloody good writer. Gems:
3. “You lie to two people in your life; your partner and the police. Everyone else gets the truth. → Read more
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The Nobel Ig prizes this year. My favourite is the Literature one: “Ireland’s police service for writing and presenting more than fifty traffic tickets to the most frequent driving offender in the country — Prawo Jazdy — whose name in Polish means ‘Driving License’“.
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A summary of the debate “What’s wrong with macroeconomics?” The debate goes on.
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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 :-).