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The RePEc blog appeared recently. Looks interesting at first sight, though some ideas in very recent posts do not appear so sensible (such as this one).
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100% Gary Becker: an entry by Steven Levitt, with further links.
Category: research
Econlinks for 14-08-’07
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Ken Rogoff says that we might be “better red than dead” in the long run. I doubt most Central-Eastern Europeans would feel any close to comfortable with that. And that despite that the Vikings (the present-day ones) are rather reddish and pretty well still.
Celebrate: Checkers is solved!
In today’s Science online: wonderful title, wonderful article, wonderful research. Took quite a while, but the victory is sweet indeed…
“If two players face off at checkers and neither makes a wrong move, then the game will inevitably end in a draw.
→ Read more Cherchez la (les) femme(s)
This recent article in “Psychology Today” is not a bad research summary, despite that it has been written by social scientists other than economists :-). A user’s manual on the evolutionary perspective applied to human nature, targeting a very general audience (and therefore, perhaps unavoidably, plagued by sensationalism; fortunately, the compromise does not appear to be critical).
→ Read more The importance of cooperation in the production of knowledge… or of anything valuable, for that matter
Here’s a link to an older post I wrote on the importance of team building (particularized for Romania) and I paraphrased Graham Bell in the end of it, just as I had done here (in Romanian).
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