It is old news by now, but for those of you who did not know (and especially for all students among you, undergraduates and graduates alike), MIT made available online extensive material for no less than 1800 courses from their curriculum.
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Beware the Euronomics. Plus some further thoughts on the economics curricula in Romania and The Netherlands
Retain at least the conclusion of this excellent article (applying, unfortunately, well beyond just France and Germany, within EU or Europe in general), which draws attention to the enormous, though often neglected*, importance of (high) school economics education, with emphasis on the (very real) risks of learning absolute nonsense from state-sponsored economics courses.
→ Read more Mioritic achievements of bad renown. And their primary causes.
→ Read moreNo one, it turns out, does Internet auction fraud like the Romanians. […]when it comes to online auctions, particularly for big-ticket items such as cars that can yield $5,000 a scam, Romanians own the game.
It is time for the current Minister of Education to go…
… and I’ll come back to the theme of the title soon (there are many reasons for the title, beyond what this short post will touch on), with an alternative, you’ve always got to have an alternative when you criticise… But meanwhile, if The Diplomat is right in this article (via Gabi Istrate, on Ad Astra), the MEdC signed itself up (in an apparent total ignorance, which is a proxy to a far more serious sin– and this is a real sin!–
→ Read more Econlinks for 13-12-’07
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An article by James Surowiecki on the subprime crisis and the “band-aid” Paulson (partial), J.P. Morgan-like, solution. This while Greenspan thinks the bubble should first break on its own (and certainly differs here from Martin Feldstein, who advocates for a fast, two-act intervention, see my previous post on that)
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Here’s a very interesting post of Andrew Gelman (based on this co-authored article of his) on whether the Democrats should move, as an electoral strategy, more to the left on the economic policy axis.