Retain at least the conclusion of this excellent article (applying, unfortunately, well beyond just France and Germany, within EU or Europe in general), which draws attention to the enormous, though often neglected*, importance of (high) school economics education, with emphasis on the (very real) risks of learning absolute nonsense from state-sponsored economics courses.
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Richard Freeman as the ‘blue-collar brute’…
… in the Colbert Report show. Wonderful, just wonderful, this time Colbert rules! You cannot miss this interview, whether you like unions or you hate them :-).
Thanks to Justin Wolfers, guest blogger on Freakonomics. → Read more
Quote for week 30th Dec ’07- 5th Jan ’08
Utopia is located not in New York or L.A., or in the endless wheat fields of Iowa, but somewhere around Copenhagen and the green countryside of Jutland.
Lans Bovenberg and Coen Teulings, in “Rhineland exit?”
→ Read more Importance of early environment for children’s cognitive development: Bucharest Early Intervention Project
A very important and welcome study on the cognitive recovery of socially deprived young children, using a randomized controlled trial with young orphans from Bucharest, Romania, has been published in Science, on the 21st of Dec ’07.
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