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Econlinks for 13-12-’07

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.

very sad for this country’s people, but otherwise a very concrete first level econ lesson for everybody. One can only hope that any other government passes ‘introductory economics’ before experimenting with policies (samples of which, for the same country, were featuring on my blog a while ago as well)…

female leaders and what comes and what doesn’t, with that (with further links to very interesting recent PDF articles within the text)

from the ‘exotic entreneurship’ stories cycle, another example mentioned in Tyler Cowen’s very well written book, Discover Your Inner Economist (see also my previous example from there).

Becker and respectively Posner, on tax evasion. Why is tax compliance higher than one would expect (with a reservation here: it also follows from Posner’s argument than in fact tax evasion isn’t necessarily lower than rationally expected…) and is that mainly due to the rational fear of punishment or to the taxpayers’ feeling of moral duty/ fairness etc?

Shortly after having posted a link to an IZA clip about Richard Freeman among a recent ‘econlinks’ post, I discovered, via Greg Mankiw, this other link to a very recent (October 31st) whole one hour interview with Freeman on YouTube, within the “Conversations with History” series, having Harry Kreisler as host.

reasons not to be a lazy (…lousy) editor– from Steven Levitt’s (JPE editor) experiences
Hill against Bill, on globalization. Not difficult to guess whom I prefer (yes, he still made perfect sense when addressing globalization in this recent speech I’ve attended, hence I think that the “marital disorder” in that couple is permanent)… In fact that is old news by now, since lately all the prominent Dems are really having a race to the bottom in terms of basic economics know-how.