I’ll be less active with blogging these days since I am attending the Society of Labor Economists annual meeting (at Columbia University this year). I’ll present this (preliminary and incomplete; comments very welcome; check my website periodically for updated future versions).
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Econlinks today
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Problems of Interplanetary and Interstellar Trade. Indeed, somebody had to start researching on this topic, at some point :-). Here’s the part I like best in the concluding remarks: “Perhaps, the establishment of a solar system monetary union would permit the free flow of capital […]”
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Giuseppe Bertola on why offshoring and immigrant employment are good, using the Italian context.
Econlinks for the weekend
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Dan Hamermesh, on Freakonomics, tackles a very interesting issue: competition between kids, grandkids and so on, for parental bequests. I don’t have such a parental dilemma as yet, but my parents do, I guess :-).
Rubik’s solved in max 25 moves
…from any initial configuration, that is.
The above was on theory and impressive computing power. See also a former post of mine on the latest Rubik’s cube pratical world championship, with winning results here.
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“[…] it is surprising and disturbing that, at a time when the premium for skills has increased and the return to graduating high school has risen, the high school dropout rate in America is increasing.