It happened almost two months ago (see last bullet point here), so I’ve thought it is about time I gave you some impressions about my Tokyo trip :-). Obviously I do not plan to get into what you can find described in detail online, e.g.
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The Wine Spectator’s Wine of 2009
The highest rated in terms of points (99/100) of top 10 is number 8, a 2006 Flaccianello .
This was the wine of the year for 2008. → Read more
Sunday econlinks
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One of the reasons I just love reading Landsburg: he is acid and funny. Here’s something that hopefully will open a longer exchange between him and Krugman: I really think Steve Landsburg is the proper counterpart to Paul Krugman in any debate (NB: Mankiw is great, but too serious and not engaging–understandably– enough in the type of debate Krugman seems to love).
Sunday econlinks
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An interesting debate in the latest issue of Capitalism and Society on the current status of Economics and other Social Sciences, worth reading especially for the two comments to the leading article on the theme.
Tallinn highlights. And the egoists.
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Architecture-wise, the Old Town is a combination of Brasov+ Cluj + Sighisoara centres (Transylvanian cities), including a mirror image of the Taylor’s Bastion from Cluj (despite my guide’s insistence that Tallinn is the only city with a Bastion in its very centre).
