Just returned from a very interesting CCP Workshop on Personnel Economics, where we found out about respect, CSR, trust, and a lot more, proving once again that we are most ruthless economic imperialists.
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Sunday night econlinks
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Good, Gelman is even more pissed off with Greenspun’s to-a-large-extent-nonsense than I was: 9th bullet point.
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The culture of Old Europe (aka, new European Union…), via Gabi Istrate; I’ve also promised him I would carefully look at/comment on this: the promise is still there, the time– not yet… :-).
Weekend econlinks
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Sharing information in scientific research: yes/no/when. Interesting, but the analysis here is applicable only in the context of some sciences (arguably, not most). Moreover, sharing by means of co-authorship is discussed at best indirectly (if one is willing to expand on their repeated interaction game thread…).
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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One of the reasons I just love reading Landsburg: he is acid and funny. Here’s something that hopefully will open a longer exchange between him and Krugman: I really think Steve Landsburg is the proper counterpart to Paul Krugman in any debate (NB: Mankiw is great, but too serious and not engaging–understandably– enough in the type of debate Krugman seems to love).