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Greg Mankiw’s birthday wish (with my “Happy Birthday”, of course!). Among other things, I learnt I’d be young forever, despite being (aspiring to be?) an economist; here’s why: “[…] you know you are old when you spend more time thinking about money than sex.
Author: Sebi Buhai
Time to study: MIT Open Courseware
It is old news by now, but for those of you who did not know (and especially for all students among you, undergraduates and graduates alike), MIT made available online extensive material for no less than 1800 courses from their curriculum.
→ Read more Quote for week 27th of Jan- 2nd of Feb ’08
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In fact, science clashes with the democratic ideal. Though it is meritocratic, it is practiced in the elite and effete world of academe, leaving the vast majority of citizens unable to contribute to it in any meaningful way.
Is flexicurity an alternative for the French labour market?
Probably not, says Gilles Saint-Paul in his assessment of the recent labour market agreements from France. I agree (and strongly recommend Saint-Paul’s short but concise essay on VoxEU, one of my best readings this week).
→ Read more EU beer drinking profiles
Findings, inter alia: Danes and Swedes are the true beer lovers; Romanians, the most generous beer drinkers, though I bet that only holds for Romanian-priced beer. What SABMiller’s sponsored descriptive study didn’t ask is what types of beer people actually prefer, across the EU countries; or perhaps their own brands did not fare well?
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