Gabriel Istrate posteaza pe Ad Astra despre noul program de burse pentru masterate si doctorate, in afara, Orizonturi Deschise, al Fundatiei Dinu Patriciu. Dincolo de faptul ca multi il suspecteaza pe Dinu Patriciu de fel de fel de nereguli si foul play– unde raman neutru, in lipsa oricaror date empirice care sa sustina conjecturile si speculatiile, dar aceasta discutie e in afara scopului acestui post– asemenea initiative sunt mai mult decat binevenite si de apreciat (si evident au de-a face si cu strategii de imagine si chiar strategii business 100%– daca realizam ca asemenea sponsorizari se pot deduce din taxe).
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Econlinks for 01-11-’07
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The RePEc blog appeared recently. Looks interesting at first sight, though some ideas in very recent posts do not appear so sensible (such as this one).
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100% Gary Becker: an entry by Steven Levitt, with further links.
The spinning dancer and the actual evidence
Steven Levitt questions (quite convincingly, despite the small sample size and possible selection issues) the main “predictions” associated with the direction people see this ballerina spin. Levitt (who also sees the dancer turn only clockwise, as I do) shows that probably all associations in the article were reversed and the left column should have been the right column (next to that, it also appears that it isn’t even true that most people see the dancer turn anti-clockwise)… I thought so, since I deemed most of them speculations, to start with.
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Preston McAfee brings a second noteworthy innovation to Economic Inquiry (I also blogged about the first one since he came as editor to that journal): “We now have a miscellany section.
And the Econ winners for 2007 are…
…. Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson, for “having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory“. See more about this on nobelprize.org. Totally deserved, albeit they were not among the ones with the highest odds this year (so don’t bet next time…).
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