→ Read morePrima impresie spune o poveste spontana, in care de fapt se intretes propriile noastre viziuni cu ceea ce dorim sa vedem. A doua privire este mai atenta, ordonand detaliile dupa logica mediului in care ne-am format ochiul.
The prophet Jeremiah is alive and well and teaching economics at Harvard
This is the best article related in a way or another to Economics that I’ve read so far this week: Roy Weintraub reviewing Stephen Marglin’s new book “The Dismal Science. How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community”, for Science.
→ Read more Killing Adam Smith… in Dilema Veche
Surely Adam Smith couldn’t care less by now if anybody threatened to kill him, but here’s a serious attempt to even burry his memory. Unfortunately (or fortunately, for the author), this short article, recently published in “Dilema Veche”, is in Romanian.
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Esther Duflo on a topic that deserves much more attention among policy makers: the need to insure the very poor against food price variability
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Here’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard so far, within the academic publishing business: deliberately slowing things down by sitting a whole month on each submission before doing anything with it.
Wanted in Romania: Engineers
Romania’s finally got a field where it is an uncontested world leader: the shortage of talent on the labour market. Engineers, skilled manual trades and executives are the top missing ones.
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