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Ken Rogoff says that we might be “better red than dead” in the long run. I doubt most Central-Eastern Europeans would feel any close to comfortable with that. And that despite that the Vikings (the present-day ones) are rather reddish and pretty well still.
Category: economics
Quote for week 5th- 11th of Aug ’07
Beware of great thinkers who advertise their conclusions without revealing their assumptions. I like economics because it insists on a higher standard.
Steven Landsburg, “The Armchair Economist”
→ Read more Economists versus other social scientists versus other scientists versus others
The read of the day: enter the economist species, from the perpective of other scientists (put forward in the first part of the letter to Greg Mankiw linked here; the second part is self-praise from the viewpoint of one member of this species…).
→ Read more Econlinks for 03-08-’07
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markets in everything edition: The Economist presents the black market for corpse brides in China; the truly nasty problem is that it comes with some scary incentives, given the scarcity of bridal corpses…
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1028 is the number of US economists that signed the recent petition against the (expected) Congress protectionist moves (link with the Dems general race-to-the-bottom economic policies that I was recently blogging about).
What I’ve been reading…
Some recommendations among the books I’ve recently finished reading:
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“On Bullshit” by Harry Frankfurt, truly a gem of a book (in fact a book in miniature; it can be read in less than an hour).