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Interesting article (via Tyler Cowen, on MR) on the economics of the late Alexander Solzhenitsyn, by C. Bohanon (written a while ago). The recent obituary for him in The Economist seems to openly ignore some of the conclusions emerging from Bohanon’s analysis…
Category: Romania
The Big Apple and The Island. And some good Econ research in Boston
Yes, I admit: my blog has been somewhat neglected recently… And unfortunately it will still be in that situation for a while, since I’m in the middle of some conferences and workshops in the US (plus it is summer and awfully hot here).
→ Read more 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.”
→ Read more Balanescu Quartet’s “The Model”
Although Kraftwerk’s original version of “The Model” (lyrics in English or German) is very good as well, my take is that The Balanescu Quartet (finally they’ve got a nice website: congrats!)
→ Read more Killing Adam Smith… in Dilema Veche
Surely Adam Smith couldn’t care less by now if anybody threatened to kill him, but here’s a serious attempt to even burry his memory. Unfortunately (or fortunately, for the author), this short article, recently published in “Dilema Veche”, is in Romanian.
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