For some reason I (once in a while) remember something Supachai Panichpakdi, then-WTO boss, said at a keynote speach in a Rotterdam conference celebrating 100 years since the birth of Jan Tinbergen (earlier on this blog, in Romanian): namely that we, then-PhD students in Economics, should stop reading [all sorts of books, papers etc.]
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Weekend econlinks
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Acemoglu on how nations can get rich: “Fix incentives and you will fix poverty. And if you wish to fix institutions, you have to fix governments“
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Blogossary. With some definitions completely redundant.
Sunday econlinks
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An interesting debate in the latest issue of Capitalism and Society on the current status of Economics and other Social Sciences, worth reading especially for the two comments to the leading article on the theme.
Econlinks
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A summary of the debate “What’s wrong with macroeconomics?” The debate goes on.
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Terry Tao’s presentation of Perelman’s solution to Poincaré’s conjecture. There are chances you still won’t understand much, but this is way better than attempting to directly digest Perelman’s original articles :-).
Sunday night econlinks
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This Science piece on leverage being “the root of all financial turmoil” is interesting (will follow up on it), though a). I doubt leverage is “the” (only) root of the problem; b).