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An article in the Economist on the Nordic Labour market and the Vikings’ desperate plea for skilled labour. Here’s my two cents: reform your bloody tax system and highly qualified people will flood you.
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Populist “economics” at its best
I’ve heard a lot of economics nonsense coming from Hillary Clinton’s camp in the current US presidential campaign, but this might well qualify as the apogee so far (how much nonsense can you utter in a few given minutes…).
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Lately I’ve got about 5 books started at all times and I largely read them in parallel (unless I like one too much to let it out of my hands before I finish it).
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John DiNardo’s 3(!) reviews of Freakonomics (1, 2, 3). I agree with most of the points DiNardo makes, though I must say that I never thought Freakonomics was meant as a ‘popularization’ book, to start with.
Paul Anka and Frank Sinatra can get you in a book nowadays. Plus the song of the day
I traveled each and every highway…
Here: I am even doing publicity for their tour :-). If you don’t know what this is all about, check this previous post of mine.
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