Nu as fi crezut sa fie chiar o asemenea cerere de inscriere pe lista de invitati ai unui eventual Colbert Report show de Romania, dar iata ca un al doilea personaj se inghesuie dupa domnul Roncea.
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My friend Max, Diskoteka Boom and Economics
My good old Canadian friend Max Hamon (who’s been in Romania, and particularly in Cluj, more than once and who, inter alia, beats most Romanians I know in palinka drinking,- ave, Max, morituri te salutant!
→ Read more Levitt (and Krugman) on the Colbert Report: the video(s)
Yes, I found it in the end, I found the recording of Levitt’s interview from the 5th of December on Colbert’s show (I was also talking about it here )! I must admit that I thought Levitt was “winning” a few times from Colbert, so no doubt the latter must have been very serious when he said in the end of the talk that he does not want any other winners (aka John Bates Clark medal laureates) in the Colbert Report show.
→ Read more Financing college education in USA
Very pertinent recent viewpoints of Gary Becker and Richard Posner on the issue of whether the debt of students to finance their college education is too high, as the new Congress claims (they also blogged about these issues – focusing at that time on commercial vs.
→ Read more Prescott, Card and Mankiw on income and substitution effects (applied to USA vs. EU)
Without holding either a Nobel, a John Bates Clark, a chair in Economics or even a PhD in Economics for that matter (yet!- working hard to finish my thesis soon), I will adventure to state that I am inclined to agree with the argument put forward in a recent post by Greg Mankiw (which is also Ed Prescotts’s position, but not so much David Card’s).
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