Word goes that Portugal is likely to soon join the category of developing countries (as you might have heard). However, before you start sobbing, consider this: not all is doom.
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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… :-).
Easterly on Randomized Evaluation
By far the best read of the current week (as yet, but looks incredibly difficult to surpass this):
→ Read moreHere’s an imagined dialogue between the two sides on Randomized Evaluation (RE) based on this book:FOR: Amazing RE power lets us identify causal effect of project treatment on the treated.
On U2’s poverty of music trap
“We will be lending African musicians to U2 to try to refurbish their sound to satisfy the urgent and growing needs for diversionary entertainment at a time of crisis in the global music and financial sectors.”
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Acemoglu on how nations can get rich: “Fix incentives and you will fix poverty. And if you wish to fix institutions, you have to fix governments“
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Blogossary. With some definitions completely redundant.