I’ve heard a lot of economics nonsense coming from Hillary Clinton’s camp in the current US presidential campaign, but this might well qualify as the apogee so far (how much nonsense can you utter in a few given minutes…).
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Econlinks today
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Why the Bayesian statistician cannot stand Bayesian statistics: I actually thought he meant it… for a few seconds. Best academic April 1st prank this year.
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“Insead, for example, has set up a virtual campus on Second Life, to complement its physical campuses in Fontainebleau, France, and in Singapore.
Viking chess
I wouldn’t be as worried as Susan :-). The young viking is clearly on the way up and it appears he can’t be stopped anylonger. He started Linares with two bangs ( win against Ivanchuk, win against Shirov).
→ Read more Econlinks for 28-02-’08
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A very nice article about GMU’s Econ department. I love for instance the following bit, despite its capitalizing on stereotypes (but we love those sometimes :-)); so here’s Arnold Kling: My simple way of describing it is that at Chicago they say, ‘Markets work; let’s use markets.’
Best phrase I’ve read so far today
→ Read more[…] Basescu has repeated his insistence that Székelyföld will have no more nor less autonomy than anywhere else. This is not a position with which I disagree in principle, but since he trotted it out two years ago and has done absoultely nothing towards decentralisation in Romania since, it is clear that what he means by “Covasna will have the same amount of autonomy as Calarasi and Constanta” is, in fact, “absolutely none”.