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reasons not to be a lazy (…lousy) editor– from Steven Levitt’s (JPE editor) experiences
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Hill against Bill, on globalization. Not difficult to guess whom I prefer (yes, he still made perfect sense when addressing globalization in this recent speech I’ve attended, hence I think that the “marital disorder” in that couple is permanent)… In fact that is old news by now, since lately all the prominent Dems are really having a race to the bottom in terms of basic economics know-how.
Category: economics
Best recent news in the Economics publishing business
Here’s what I would call a very welcome idea from the new editor of Economic Inquiry, Preston McAfee:
More insidious, in my view, is the gradual morphing of the referees from evaluators to anonymous co-authors.
→ Read more Best “Political Compass” so far. And where I stand on the left-right political-economic plan
You should do this ‘politiquiz‘ (particularly if you are already a politician/ decision maker or consider a career in this direction :-)). There are lots of things that can still be improved in it, but it is the best “where you stand on the political/ economic dimensions” questionnaire I’ve encountered so far.
→ Read more How intelligent should leaders be?
Although I think there is more to the story, quite insightful thoughts from Richard Posner and Gary Becker on the relationship between intelligence and leadership. A few potential caveats I’d point out very rapidly:
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the examples considered are clearly selected to fit the theory advanced (though it is far from clear that if one considered, say, all -succesful and unsuccesful – political leaders within the last century, from all over the world, not just the USA, the correlation between intelligence and leadership would turn positive)
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“leadership failure” is far from easy to define.
The importance of cooperation in the production of knowledge… or of anything valuable, for that matter
Here’s a link to an older post I wrote on the importance of team building (particularized for Romania) and I paraphrased Graham Bell in the end of it, just as I had done here (in Romanian).
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