- Seinfeld’s spongeworthy Elaine, an unusual, limited-purpose –but very thorough– option theory application, by the one and only Avinash Dixit.
- All passé now, but hopefully you did pick your favorite Cupid.
Category: psychology
Econlinks
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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.
Sunday night econlinks
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Bilingualism and early child development: very interesting brand-new research in PNAS (institutional or individual subscription needed, else only abstract is free). And yes, bilingualism clearly pays off, if you were wondering.
Econlinks for the weekend
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NYU Stern business school economists on the crisis, pinning down the real causes much to the same factors as Caballero did (1st bullet point). The book they advertise will certainly be widely read.
Econlinks for the weekend
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This erotic-stimuli-influencing-spending might be more serious than I thought (see my earlier short comment to Tyler Cowen’s erotics of investing– 2nd bullet point). Although the researchers admit that all their conclusions rely on the men faced with a decision to be taken in a second or so… Yeah, then it could be very true :-).