Findings, inter alia: Danes and Swedes are the true beer lovers; Romanians, the most generous beer drinkers, though I bet that only holds for Romanian-priced beer. What SABMiller’s sponsored descriptive study didn’t ask is what types of beer people actually prefer, across the EU countries; or perhaps their own brands did not fare well?
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Deja Vu & eTBlast
Since I’ve mentioned in a previous post combating plagiarism in the academe, here’s new, heavy artillery to help the market do its job. You can even try it out on your own, it is allowed :-).
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Carlsen won the Corus Grandmaster Group A, as I hoped (totally compensating for his being last in the same top group, last year). His win was jointly with Levon Aronian, one of the three winners of 2007’s Corus GM A.
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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.
Econlinks for 24-01-’08
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The American’s 2008 Young Economist Award went to Raj Chetty. Chapeau bas, this guy totally deserves it (see for instance a recent ReStud paper of his that impressed me)! And no surprise there; in fact, should he keep his publishing pace, I think Chetty has considerable chances of becoming the youngest winner of the John Bates Clark award (see who was the ’07 winner of that prestigious prize).