Scandinavian volcanic ash behind, I have just made it to Chicago; greetz from NU’s Andersen Hall. Contact infos to be updated soon. Promised (and unpromised) blogposts will resume at some point, too.
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Theory and practice, in theory and in practice
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The playful mantras of our adolescence have become a way of life for later generations. At least in the ’60s we knew, whatever we said, that sex was about…sex. All the same, what followed is our fault.
Weekend econlinks: The quest for perfection
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Gelman writes a useful overview on causality and statistical learning (caveat lector: I have only read through Angrist and Pischke’s book, among the three Gelman mentiones; that one is very well written, but aimed at junior graduate students at best: hence, the book’s tag “an empiricist’s companion” is overselling it; and that has nothing to do with Josh Angrist kindly “advising” me to change my PhD topic/focus, sometime in my beginning graduate years, because ‘nobody serious would be interested in structural modelling’ :-)).
Sunday night econlinks: Submit the paper right now!
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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).
In Memoriam L.H. Chen
For those of us who met him, Long Hwa came across as the soft-spoken, thoughtful Taiwanese; curious, but skeptical, about all-things Western. He brought with him his Asian wisdom, and enriched everybody’s horizon in a world where we care too much about details, and often ignore the essence.