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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(New) Danish cuisine
Yes, yes, I confirm: top Danish cuisine is resurrected and its outputs are nothing but extremely yummy… The NY Times has also got only praise for it (with assorted photos here).
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Dan Hamermesh, on Freakonomics, tackles a very interesting issue: competition between kids, grandkids and so on, for parental bequests. I don’t have such a parental dilemma as yet, but my parents do, I guess :-).
Quote of the week
→ Read morePrima impresie spune o poveste spontana, in care de fapt se intretes propriile noastre viziuni cu ceea ce dorim sa vedem. A doua privire este mai atenta, ordonand detaliile dupa logica mediului in care ne-am format ochiul.
The prophet Jeremiah is alive and well and teaching economics at Harvard
This is the best article related in a way or another to Economics that I’ve read so far this week: Roy Weintraub reviewing Stephen Marglin’s new book “The Dismal Science. How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community”, for Science.
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