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Susan Athey is the new winner of the John Bates Clark Medal. I had her on my potential list of winners, of course, but I really put Ed Glaeser highest on that list since he was at the age limit of the candidates for the medal (40), while Susan Athey could have also been nominated in 2 years from now, in principle.
Category: economics
Hot Stephen Colbert and cool QJE
These days are very busy, but I can’t pass on this one. Stephen Colbert has the best comic moment of the months! Among other things, he is so hot that he was on the cover of the Quarterly Journal of Economics (that’s the best part of the clip :-), Greg Mankiw rightly picks on that part) but, particularly, even Paulina Porizkova admits that – now, is there anything else to desire ?
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An interesting editorial in the NYTimes by Hal Varian, on the fashion industry and its laissez-faire attitude inasmuch copyrights are concerned. With conclusions valid for other industries as well… Link via Greg Mankiw’s blog.
Econlinks for 09-04-’07
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YouTube’s favourite clips: an interesting report on what are the de facto most popular clips and why Viacom (and others with similar interests) might have less leverage than they think they have
10 out of 10 for Easterly’s “Africa’s Poverty Trap”
This is the best short econ article I’ve read in the last couple of days: “Africa’s Poverty Trap”, by William Easterly, published in the WSJ on March 23rd (yeah, I’m reading things with a time lag…).
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