Econlinks for 01-11-’07

The RePEc blog appeared recently. Looks interesting at first sight, though some ideas in very recent posts do not appear so sensible (such as this one).

100% Gary Becker: an entry by Steven Levitt, with further links. One could not have enough space and time to discuss all Becker’s contributions to Economics (and to science, in general) in one post: suffice to say here that some of my economist friends call him “The God” :-).

My friend and former Tinbergen Institute colleague Otto van Hemert made it on the Marginal Revolution blog, where Tyler Cowen introduces his latest (co-authored) research on subprime mortgages in the USA (skimmed through the paper for now, will have to find more time to read it thoroughly). This surely should give him some attention beyond the academe :-).

Spinning ballerina: the KO (via Freakonomics). Blogged about that also here and here.

“After nearly 15 minutes of soul searching” he “heard the call” and decided to enter the Presidential election for the USA: “Nation, I will seek the office of the president of the United States. I am doing it!“. So, Americans, vote for Steve Colbert!