Sunday night econlinks: Submit the paper right now!

The Tilburg Univ “Econ Schools Ranking”. It is indeed using a rather decent pool of journals (for period 2004-2008) and moreover, you can construct your own top by choosing subsets of those journals (such as top 5 only, if you wish). Not a bad idea.

Tabarrok on the issue of publishing referee reports. This by no means new, in fact I also had a few thoughts on this, inspired by others (inter alia, former editors at top journals, e.g., the PNAS) who had had such ideas etc.

A pity they decided to close before I managed to assess them… While I honestly hope Ferran Adrià will revisit this decision, I cannot help noticing that this simply paves the way for the would-be King of Restaurants: El Bulli is dead, long live Noma! I promise to tell you more about Noma in the first week of April.

(A noteworthy) LEAP forward at Harvard (via Al Roth, at Market Design). The sort of interesting academic initiatives that European universities would be wise to imitate (hope dies last)…

Art catastrophes happen everywhere, quite frequently.

The sustainable, meat-eating, vegetarians. And, (in a funny way) related, a great “Hústorta” short movie, by a promising young director, Jakab-Benke Nándor (with thanks to Dan). By the way, this Toldi restaurant in Cluj Napoca, on Clinicilor 23, (tried for the first time with the occasion of my recent trip there) is indeed a place where they know how to prepare meat. In general. So if you want good meat, definitely a place to try. The problem is that there is not much else than meat there… Literally. And they could do so much more. The service and ambiance are pretty decent, though they could invest in more/better marketing (online included, for instance).

An ancient rejection letter (and more background to it). Would be a pity if this were not submitted to Economic Inquiry (first bullet point), for instance.

Good: Jay McInerney apparently takes over the wine column at WSJ. Let us hope he’s gonna be as entertaining as in Bacchus & me (first bullet point).

Time to put all these culinary-links-Chicago in order and save for future reference, before I get there (blame the EU Commission if I am late): Chicago’s great culinary middle ground. Assuming I will not go every second day to Avec (which I’ve tried twice by now) and above (looking very much forward to).

Posner and Becker on consumer competence, in particular about whether any regulation concerning obesity is necessary. Or proof of the fact that Becker has a Nobel in Economics, while Posner only believes he should get one…

And, finally for today, under the heading “Econ work is never over”, this is a perfect advice for people like myself: “Submit the paper right now! Submit the paper right now!” Brilliant. Via Jeff Ely, at Cheaptalk.