Just returned from a very interesting CCP Workshop on Personnel Economics, where we found out about respect, CSR, trust, and a lot more, proving once again that we are most ruthless economic imperialists.
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Good, Gelman is even more pissed off with Greenspun’s to-a-large-extent-nonsense than I was: 9th bullet point.
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The culture of Old Europe (aka, new European Union…), via Gabi Istrate; I’ve also promised him I would carefully look at/comment on this: the promise is still there, the time– not yet… :-).
It’s always the 3rd referee!
Even in 1945…
(with thanks to Alex and YouTube) → Read more
Easterly on Randomized Evaluation
By far the best read of the current week (as yet, but looks incredibly difficult to surpass this):
→ Read moreHere’s an imagined dialogue between the two sides on Randomized Evaluation (RE) based on this book:FOR: Amazing RE power lets us identify causal effect of project treatment on the treated.
Econlinks
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The top 100 global thinkers, according to Foreign Policy. With the usual caveats: some should clearly not be there, others are missing (even from the first 5 positions, say…) etc.