From tomorrow till Sunday I’ll be attending the Conference on “Structural Models of the Labor Market and Policy Analysis” at Sandbjerg, inter alia meeting once again several friends/ co-authors/ mentors. Ex ante, the program looks great, notwithstanding my non-presenter role this time (unlike the analogous conference last November, in London). → Read more
The connoisseur of prostitution
Likely no good economist, surely a bloody good writer. Gems:
3. “You lie to two people in your life; your partner and the police. Everyone else gets the truth. → Read more
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The Nobel Ig prizes this year. My favourite is the Literature one: “Ireland’s police service for writing and presenting more than fifty traffic tickets to the most frequent driving offender in the country — Prawo Jazdy — whose name in Polish means ‘Driving License’“.
Tallinn highlights. And the egoists.
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Architecture-wise, the Old Town is a combination of Brasov+ Cluj + Sighisoara centres (Transylvanian cities), including a mirror image of the Taylor’s Bastion from Cluj (despite my guide’s insistence that Tallinn is the only city with a Bastion in its very centre).
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A summary of the debate “What’s wrong with macroeconomics?” The debate goes on.
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Terry Tao’s presentation of Perelman’s solution to Poincaré’s conjecture. There are chances you still won’t understand much, but this is way better than attempting to directly digest Perelman’s original articles :-).