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The other side of scientific publishing: the Editor’s perspective. In this case nothing to complain about (au contraire: e.g., see earlier): if only most editors (cross-disciplinary) would follow on McAfee’s steps… unfortunately, plenty of counterexamples around, such as the editors involved here
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Steven Shreve on working with models in the finance world. Shreve on a similar topic, earlier.
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Econblogs doing great.
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One of the few things Romanians could/should copy from their Moldavian neighbours
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Bill Easterly reminding us about the gains from specialization.
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They might be having a slow, if any, economic recovery, but the Japanese are way ahead than anybody else technology-wise: Isaac Asimov would have loved this restaurant in Nagoya, Japan. Related, earlier.
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The Google Translate service: not a bad job (though things can be improved: e.g. “how are you, friend?” is translated in Danish “how are you, ven?” and in Hungarian “how are you, barátom?”; in most other languages I can check it seems to work fine :-)). See also a Google Research Blog recent article on the theme.
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The race to hire economists. Or statisticians. Or their combination?
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A new business hype (?): Investing in lawsuits.
