→ Read more[…] Basescu has repeated his insistence that Székelyföld will have no more nor less autonomy than anywhere else. This is not a position with which I disagree in principle, but since he trotted it out two years ago and has done absoultely nothing towards decentralisation in Romania since, it is clear that what he means by “Covasna will have the same amount of autonomy as Calarasi and Constanta” is, in fact, “absolutely none”.
Category: politics
Real stakes in the US election
Here’s my favourite bit of the best essay I’ve read today:
→ Read moreThe reality is that democracy is a very blunt instrument, and in today’s environment we are choosing between ways of muddling through.
What I’ve been reading
Lately I’ve got about 5 books started at all times and I largely read them in parallel (unless I like one too much to let it out of my hands before I finish it).
→ Read more Econlinks for 4-02-’08
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Greg Mankiw’s birthday wish (with my “Happy Birthday”, of course!). Among other things, I learnt I’d be young forever, despite being (aspiring to be?) an economist; here’s why: “[…] you know you are old when you spend more time thinking about money than sex.
Econlinks for 20-01-’08
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I made a mistake last time when I mentioned Gelman and Cai’s recent research on whether the US political parties would gain from shifting their position on the economic axis, focusing on the Kerry vs.