Surely Adam Smith couldn’t care less by now if anybody threatened to kill him, but here’s a serious attempt to even burry his memory. Unfortunately (or fortunately, for the author), this short article, recently published in “Dilema Veche”, is in Romanian.
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Esther Duflo on a topic that deserves much more attention among policy makers: the need to insure the very poor against food price variability
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Here’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard so far, within the academic publishing business: deliberately slowing things down by sitting a whole month on each submission before doing anything with it.
Wanted in Romania: Engineers
Romania’s finally got a field where it is an uncontested world leader: the shortage of talent on the labour market. Engineers, skilled manual trades and executives are the top missing ones.
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…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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An older, but still very actual interview with Charles Plott on the value of experimental methods in Economics
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S. Pellegrino’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants for 2008. I plan to try number 10 (Noma, Copenhagen, the only Danish restaurant on the list) this year.