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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.
Category: science
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.
Science article on the Ad Astra organization of Romanian scientists
Reaching for the stars in Romania. Nice article on Ad Astra, Romanian science and education in general– and also nice brief profiling of Razvan Florian and Liviu Giosan, the Ad Astra “founding fathers”.
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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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