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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.
Category: quote
Quote for week 27th of Jan- 2nd of Feb ’08
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In fact, science clashes with the democratic ideal. Though it is meritocratic, it is practiced in the elite and effete world of academe, leaving the vast majority of citizens unable to contribute to it in any meaningful way.
Paul Anka and Frank Sinatra can get you in a book nowadays. Plus the song of the day
I traveled each and every highway…
Here: I am even doing publicity for their tour :-). If you don’t know what this is all about, check this previous post of mine. → Read more
Is there or is there not?
→ Read moreIt occurred to me that maybe there was no Romanian translation of the sentence “Do you know who I am?” — which would have been the first thing out of an American director’s mouth in a similar situation.
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.