This seems a serious thing- all funds go to charity and the winners of the pool select the precise charity destination. And there are only a few more days to go, so hurry up!
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Econlinks for 04 Oct ’07
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Try a free “publish or perish” software. Though it does pretty much the same (and only that, as far as I had time to test…) as scholar.google.com
On Cluj, property prices and (local) ambitions
I’d have many problems with some of the ideas put forward in there (eg. Emil Boc’s role in Cluj’s development for instance is highly overrated– a cost-benefit analysis would most likely arrive at the opposite conclusion; the whole idea of the article is to convince people to invest in advertised property on that site, hence the general upward bias in the assessment; there is then the entirely ignored idea of spurious rises in property price, aka a possible bubble on everybody’s language etc.–
→ Read more Radiohead members should start PhDs in Experimental Economics
… because their recent idea makes for a super interesting experiment; we have all very high hopes :-). So go and download their latest album, “In Rainbows”. Really no scam: it’s all up to you, you can pay as much as you want (for the download version).
→ Read more The electorate’s 4 boneheaded biases
Bryan Caplan at his best. The focus is on the USA, but the applicability is, unfortunately, universal.
PS. I am still reading Caplan’s “The Myth of the Rational Voter.
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