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Eric Maskin on the financial crisis (Mankiw, Cheaptalk and MR link to this interview, among others). Maskin is one of the smartest persons alive, so this is mandatory– a must read in particular for those who’d like to crucify all economic theorists :-).
Month: October 2009
Half of a Nobel
Certainly Williamson was expected to win sooner or later (sooner rather than later), in fact I predicted him to be winning, yesterday (and a year ago, and two years ago…).
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After the Nobel flops for Literature (Herta Müller is ok…, but the Eurocentrism of the Nobel Literature commitee remains obvious; e.g. how can you still keep out Philip Roth or Michael Ondaatje, that after having ignored all US & Canadian top writers for the last several decades?!
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From tomorrow till Sunday I’ll be attending the Conference on “Structural Models of the Labor Market and Policy Analysis” at Sandbjerg, inter alia meeting once again several friends/ co-authors/ mentors. Ex ante, the program looks great, notwithstanding my non-presenter role this time (unlike the analogous conference last November, in London). → Read more
The connoisseur of prostitution
Likely no good economist, surely a bloody good writer. Gems:
3. “You lie to two people in your life; your partner and the police. Everyone else gets the truth. → Read more