Born in the anonymity of the blogosphere 5 years ago, this weblog grew up a curious, motivated, and responsible toddler: its (no longer) secret ambition remained no less than saving the world– despite repeated trials of dissuasion by its author, who once foolishly pledged allegiance to the infusion of blogs about nothing.
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Sunday night econlinks
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Good, Gelman is even more pissed off with Greenspun’s to-a-large-extent-nonsense than I was: 9th bullet point.
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The culture of Old Europe (aka, new European Union…), via Gabi Istrate; I’ve also promised him I would carefully look at/comment on this: the promise is still there, the time– not yet… :-).
Weekend Econlinks
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EMH: it really ain’t dead. (via Mankiw)
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Harvard’s financial report for 2009. And some of the (dire) consequences.
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Head hunting for a (younger than Mas-Colell…legal requirement, apparently) distinguished scientist to be the European Research Council’s new Director.
Mioritic achievements of bad renown. And their primary causes.
→ Read moreNo one, it turns out, does Internet auction fraud like the Romanians. […]when it comes to online auctions, particularly for big-ticket items such as cars that can yield $5,000 a scam, Romanians own the game.
Publicity: Anna’s photo-trips around the world
Not bad so far, Anna :-). And I love Bresson as well…
Question: do we meet in Budapest later this month? Although it is not so exotic as your other trips.
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