So what’s new? There is now a very interesting survey in the EconJournalWatch, which asks a set of questions to the 659 economists (some of them top researchers whom I always admired and admire- not necessarily for their views in this context, though) who signed the formal statement released by the EPI, concerning a raise of the federal minimum wage.
→ Read more Month: January 2007
Rich libido
Since my blog is not a “family blog” like MR , I should be able to talk without inhibition about this :-). So I try. Not that we didn’t have already a hunch about this, wealth comes with better sex lives (bloody Joop, he kept telling me this all the time- money and women and sex and the rest- ok, ok, you’ve got a point my friend, though not the whole truth…).
→ Read more Gapminder, now on Google tools as well
I once blogged (among other things) about this extremely interesting and welcome software, Gapminder, developed by Hans Rosling and his team from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. It seems that the software is now included as part of the google tools, which makes it even more popular and easier to disseminate everywhere.
→ Read more Milton Friedman Day: Jan 29, 2007
Mark your calendars for “a day of national celebration and remembrance of Friedman’s life and his influence on American society and economic systems”. See also Dubner’s entry about the event, on Freakonomics.
→ Read more To have or not to have: brandul de tara (I)
Categoric un subiect de continuat (I’ll do my best…). Pana una alta, impresia mea este ca atat Sorin Ionita in Ev. Zilei, cat si Florin Dumitrescu pe Media lui Comanescu, care incepe prin a-l comenta pe primul, se afla pe pozitii extreme. → Read more