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The Economist’s books of the year. A few from the ‘economics & business’, ‘science & technology’ and respectively, the ‘biography’ sections are on my to-read list for quite a while now.
Category: economics
The new RAE UK is out
…and for Economics and Econometrics, the quality profiles can be consulted here.
By strictly ranking percentages of research in the highest and respectively second highest research categories, the first 10 Econ Departments in UK RAE 2008 (not very unexpected) are the following:
- LSE
- UCL
- Essex, Oxford, Warwick
- Bristol, Nottingham, Queen Mary
- Cambridge
- Manchester
You can call me Doc…
… for about a week now. And if you’re interested in my dissertation, here’s the full digital version, in the Erasmus University Rotterdam online repository. If you believe you deserve a nice, signed, hardcopy, do let me know :-).
→ Read more A morning thought on peer-review
Good journals in Economics (say top 15) typically have good referees (though it also depends on who the Editor in that particular case is and especially on how much effort he is putting in picking the referees; sometimes you have the feeling they expressly choose folks who really seem to have no expertise whatsoever in your area).
→ Read more Chapter 11 for Detroit’s automakers
Best sentence I’ve read today:
If Chapter 11 cannot save GM, then nothing can.
This is from the recent VoxEU opinion by Joshua Rauh and Luigi Zingales, proposing a bankruptcy to save General Motors.
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