→ Read moreYou start with an oyster. You put it inside a large olive. Then you put the olive inside an ortolan (a wee bird called ‘the garden bunting’, in case you are among the underprivileged), and the ortolan inside a lark, and so on and so on.
Tánc a hóban
Aside (several) superlative classical and jazz concerts I have recently attended in Amsterdam and London (might come back with an overview later on), this one masterpiece by the Hungarian band Ghymes (official, wiki) is something I am literally obsessed with, lately.
→ Read more McInerney’s wine world
→ Read moreYou probably know, even if you have never tasted them, that Lafite is synonymous with elegance, Mouton with power. Lafite is fragrant and ethereal, Mouton loud and fleshy. Lafite is Leonardo to Mouton’s Michelangelo.
London my love
My whereabouts: overlooking the Thames from the Royal Festival Hall. Rachmaninov, Mozart and Strauss tonight. Presented a paper a couple of hours ago, here. Very interesting workshop.
What is better than being in the academe?
→ Read more Econlinks for the weekend
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NYU Stern business school economists on the crisis, pinning down the real causes much to the same factors as Caballero did (1st bullet point). The book they advertise will certainly be widely read.