Shortly back to blogging after quite a while… Today I’ll drop a few lines about some interesting science pieces, both new and old, but anytime exciting. Of course the selection is mine.
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Despre ce as fi vrut sa scriu saptamana trecuta
…dar timpul nu mi-a permis:
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despre economistii de notorietate mondiala care au fost intr-un fel sau altul asociati cu Londra. Un material scurt, concis si foarte bine venit in sensul asta e pe site-ul Institutului de Studii Fiscale (pe care il vizitam in conjunctie cu Departamentul de Economie al University College London (UCL) anul trecut pe vremea asta).
What’s new
… or rather not entirely new- objectively speaking- but recent impressions from my part, so to say. This time about classical music, economic research and some new scientific highlights…
→ Read more I ran into an excellent resource of classical music online that has, among other things, short informative biographies of many composers and- particularly- complete librettos for a few hundreds of the most famous world operas.
Peter van Bergeijk to publicly “criticise” me (in Dutch)
Seemingly some Dutch economists in Holland – who don’t necessarily know me- are suddenly very concerned about my spending too much time on the internet (TRUE- but nothing to do about this, I have to be in touch with what happens in the world) and particularly about my apparently doing everything (read: putting too much effort and energy to the expense of my research time) to promote my website in the top most visited pages within the category “economie-nederland” on webstats4u (WRONG- the fact that webstats4u does not have a mechanism to block your own visits is nothing to blame on me- I decided nonetheless not to use my webpage as browser homepage anylonger, just to satisfy these criticisms and to show that I could not care less if I were in the top of the most visited economics pages in the Netherlands or not…).
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Sondajul ANBCC este o initiativa excelenta. Mai putin excelent insa este felul in care a fost implementat (esantionul de populatie nu e reprezentativ, metodologia de analiza sociologica folosita e de pe timpul lui Pezvanti).
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