Watch & listen (TED talk by Pattie Maes), and be amazed.
More about the project.
More about Pranav Mistry, the MIT Phd student behind all this.
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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.
Sunday evening econlinks
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A WSJ article by Reinhart and Rogoff, on what past crises around the world might teach us for the current crisis. It really ain’t lookin’ that good… I have obviously attended Ken Rogoff’s presentation of this research at the recent ASSA in San Francisco.
Econlinks
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McCloskey and Ziliak vs. Hoover and Siegler, from the (very welcome, long overdue…) statistician’s perspective. Gelman has extremely interesting points and I agree with most of them, except that I think (and he partially admits…) he does not know much (euphemism…) about the rational addiction & co literature, so let us leave that point out, shall we (in any case it is not related to the matter at hand)…
Xmas Econlinks
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The Economist’s books of the year. A few from the ‘economics & business’, ‘science & technology’ and respectively, the ‘biography’ sections are on my to-read list for quite a while now.