We know already what the general outcome would be, given Obama’s popularity outside USA, but still, interesting initiative from The Economist. Can you guess which country will have the highest proportion of Blue votes; France looks like a strong candidate, as of now.
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Culmea pateticului pe saptamana curenta
Domnul Daianu, fost economist…, “ataca” din nou (vezi si isprava precedenta, comentata)… Introducerea textului din Dilema Veche uita sa precizeze ca nici un economist serios nu se afla intre semnatarii ‘scrisorii’, cu toate ca politicienii respectivi (unii dintre ei economisti ratati sau/si politicieni frustrati, altii simpli naivi) “aparţin unor grupări politice diferite […] depăşirea barierelor ideologice adăugînd un plus de importanţă documentului.”
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…in 4 short essays that sum up the knowns and the unknows. Among other top researchers in the field, these essays contain the opinions of Daron Acemoglu, Francis Fukuyama and Douglas North.
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An older, but still very actual interview with Charles Plott on the value of experimental methods in Economics
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S. Pellegrino’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants for 2008. I plan to try number 10 (Noma, Copenhagen, the only Danish restaurant on the list) this year.
Econlinks for 28-02-’08
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A very nice article about GMU’s Econ department. I love for instance the following bit, despite its capitalizing on stereotypes (but we love those sometimes :-)); so here’s Arnold Kling: My simple way of describing it is that at Chicago they say, ‘Markets work; let’s use markets.’