Far more important than the forthcoming US Presidential Election is the awarding of the Nobel titles this year. The official Nobel prizes will be awarded starting next Monday (see the schedule).
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Econlinks this week
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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…
Econlinks today
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Problems of Interplanetary and Interstellar Trade. Indeed, somebody had to start researching on this topic, at some point :-). Here’s the part I like best in the concluding remarks: “Perhaps, the establishment of a solar system monetary union would permit the free flow of capital […]”
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Giuseppe Bertola on why offshoring and immigrant employment are good, using the Italian context.
The prophet Jeremiah is alive and well and teaching economics at Harvard
This is the best article related in a way or another to Economics that I’ve read so far this week: Roy Weintraub reviewing Stephen Marglin’s new book “The Dismal Science. How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community”, for Science.
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…from any initial configuration, that is.
The above was on theory and impressive computing power. See also a former post of mine on the latest Rubik’s cube pratical world championship, with winning results here.
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