→ Read moreSo the loud cough, most likely completely unconscious, is a way of saying “I can’t handle this, folks. You all may be crowding round Mahler’s deathbed for one final intimate confession.
Category: fun
Mating, development aid, and the econometrics of it all
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I recently helped one of my single male graduate students in his search for a spouse.First, I suggested he conduct a randomized controlled trial of potential mates to identify the one with the best benefit/cost ratio.
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The Nobel Ig prizes this year. My favourite is the Literature one: “Ireland’s police service for writing and presenting more than fifty traffic tickets to the most frequent driving offender in the country — Prawo Jazdy — whose name in Polish means ‘Driving License’“.
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Always wise thoughts from the one and only Kevin Murphy . If for some reason you haven’t heard of him yet, all you need to know is that Murphy holds comparative advantage in all forms of production.
(Many) Econlinks for the Weekend
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A nice, brief VoxEU note of Willem Buiter on negative nominal interest rates (and their potential desirability). Greg Mankiw also tackled the topic earlier.
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If you’re at all into arithmetics (and not only) you might like this concise exposé on very big numbers (think Ackerman series, Busy Beavers and the like if you are dubious about what “very big” stands for in this context…).