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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.
What I’ve been reading
I’ve started many books and haven’t finished yet most of them…, but slowly and steadily, mainly during my many & long forthcoming travels (NB: Transylvania, here I come!), I’ll get there…
Anyway: a book I’ve just finished is Nick Hornby’s “Fever Pitch” (wiki link; audio link with Hornby answering questions about the book).
→ Read more The new RAE UK is out
…and for Economics and Econometrics, the quality profiles can be consulted here.
By strictly ranking percentages of research in the highest and respectively second highest research categories, the first 10 Econ Departments in UK RAE 2008 (not very unexpected) are the following:
- LSE
- UCL
- Essex, Oxford, Warwick
- Bristol, Nottingham, Queen Mary
- Cambridge
- Manchester
You can call me Doc…
… for about a week now. And if you’re interested in my dissertation, here’s the full digital version, in the Erasmus University Rotterdam online repository. If you believe you deserve a nice, signed, hardcopy, do let me know :-).
→ Read more A morning thought on peer-review
Good journals in Economics (say top 15) typically have good referees (though it also depends on who the Editor in that particular case is and especially on how much effort he is putting in picking the referees; sometimes you have the feeling they expressly choose folks who really seem to have no expertise whatsoever in your area).
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