Do not do unto others as you would expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists
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Month: May 2008
My whereabouts
I’ll be less active with blogging these days since I am attending the Society of Labor Economists annual meeting (at Columbia University this year). I’ll present this (preliminary and incomplete; comments very welcome; check my website periodically for updated future versions).
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Problems of Interplanetary and Interstellar Trade. Indeed, somebody had to start researching on this topic, at some point :-). Here’s the part I like best in the concluding remarks: “Perhaps, the establishment of a solar system monetary union would permit the free flow of capital […]”
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Giuseppe Bertola on why offshoring and immigrant employment are good, using the Italian context.
A well deserved Pulitzer and pearls before lunch…
I must be the most ignorant person ever: I’ve only found out today (via Terry Tao) that this superb article by Gene Weingarten, “Pearls before breakfast“, likely the best I’ve ever read in the Washington Post, won a well deserved Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing about a month ago.
→ Read more Carlsen consistence
He’s just tied for first (well, he’s been de jure third, if you take the tie-breaks into consideration, but that does not matter much) in the powerful Baku 2008 Grand Prix.
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