The starred restaurants will be known only in two days, but meanwhile here is the Bib Gourmand list (via Fred, who’s actively tweeting lately): Michelin’s 46 Chicago places that will give you plenty of bang for your buck.
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Labour markets, between heaven and hell
→ Read more[…]heaven is where women and older people work like Swedes, the young work like the Dutch and the unemployed find jobs like the Danes. Hell is where workers get into unemployment like the Americans and out of it like the Italians.
Restoring Sanity vs Keeping Fear Alive
NBER SI & ICA @ Boston
Mid July, terribly hot, Cambridge, serious Econ research: high time for the yearly NBER Summer Institute. Yesterday I attended an interesting second part of the EF&G Research Meeting, where in particular I’d single out Chetty’s paper on bounding labour supply elasticities with optimization frictions (succeded by Rogerson’s excellent discussion).
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The 2010 S. Pellegrino world top 100 restaurants came out yesterday: René Redzepi’s Noma is la crème de la crème (’10 S. Pellegrino profile).
No doubt you recall I had dinner there less than a month ago.
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