…in 4 short essays that sum up the knowns and the unknows. Among other top researchers in the field, these essays contain the opinions of Daron Acemoglu, Francis Fukuyama and Douglas North.
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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.’
Econlinks for 07-11-’07
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“Cheap talk” incentives for better grades. You never know, it might actually work; let’s see if Bloomberg actually implements this.
10 out of 10 for Easterly’s “Africa’s Poverty Trap”
This is the best short econ article I’ve read in the last couple of days: “Africa’s Poverty Trap”, by William Easterly, published in the WSJ on March 23rd (yeah, I’m reading things with a time lag…).
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