I cannot but agree with the main idea of the recent statement on the prediction markets (you can download the PDF free of charge via SSRN, once you make an account with them), signed by a bunch of top economists, including 4 Nobelists.
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Econlinks for 13-05-’07
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an excellent (wide-audience targeted) article on the upside of income inequality, by Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy. Greg Mankiw also writes about it (and singles out exactly the fragment I wanted to single out).
Fun with Rogoff and Wolfowitz. And hedging against a (Presidential) change, in general
Amid all the scandal around the World Bank boss, Paul Wolfowitz and his (required/demanded/expected, by most) would or would not-be resignation, here’s a very recent leaked memo from him to his staff (Ken Rogoff has been rather careless and leaked it to the press :-)).
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As announced, I restate below the second part of the my previous post. Looking forward for a big number of enthusiastic participants!
Sebi Buhai (in collaboration with Dan, Lolka and Tihi, my colleagues from PhoenixTransylvania, who do not yet know about this, but I am sure will have nothing against it 🙂 ) is launching a new (smaller scale) blog contest.
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Popularity is not at all something I am after (though I could start considering my running for the Romanian Presidency in the future- after all, so far, all you need for that is to be very popular:-)), as I immediately made clear when I was nominated to this “Clujblogfest”, a blog “competition” in my native city, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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