After a previous short post on why cash is generally the optimum gift and a heated debate with my friend, Daniel, here’s Greg Mankiw with the analysis for the particular case of strong relationships.
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My wild self is too wild…
…so I’ll gladly take the cash, thank you very much (unfortunately I do often notice that most people from outside economics do not really understand why cash is the optimum gift choice, in general).
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Although I criticised him a bit in my previous post, here’s again Tyler Cowen on Marginal Revolution (MR), this time in his best shape :-).
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Good, but too slow
A piece of criticism to Tyler Cowen (as you probably understood by now, in general he is one of my favourite econbloggers): for an academic economist, he is extremely slow at times.
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As usually, Tyler Cowen on Marginal Revolution has excellent tips for everybody. This time on reading fast, academic publishing and time management in general. Tips which aren’t really ‘miraculous solutions’, but really things that could work – or more precisely, things that could work if you fulfilled the initial conditions (oh well, it’s never too late– and that belongs to me today, not to Cowen)….
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