Thursday, November 22, 2007

Miss Landmine

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Is this going a bit too far ?

Law and Economics in GMU

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I'm Going to Law School! Is it that good a program? And is the The Robert A. Levy Fellowship in Law and Liberty open for international ...

Every City Needs a Myth

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Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed caves where it is said that a wolf nursed Rome's legendary founders .

Applications of Benford's Law

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Tim Harford ; Benford’s Law does not apply to every set of numbers - for example, it does not apply to post codes or national insurance numb...

Capitalism by the Guns

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Deepak Lal writes In my last article I had outlined how Russia has now joined the other former Communist countries China and Vietnam in em...

Monetary policy in China and India

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The Chinese macroeconomic policy framework by Eswar Prasad Exchange rate pass-through in India Ramkishen Rajan , George Mason University Bo...

Immigration and Body Mass

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Who knows other countries may follow New Zealand's lead ; New Zealand has added another cruel cut to the myriad indignities visited upon...

Free Banking- Zimbabwe's Solution?

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Steve H. Hanke writes ; Zimbabwe's hyperinflation is destroying the economy, pushing more of its inhabitants into poverty and forcing m...

Canada is catching up with US

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Canadian income stages turnaround versus U.S. Number of Canadians behind bars rises for first time in more than a decade

King Hussian -plucky little king

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The Economist,2007 The Hashemite monarch was a brave, decent man. His efforts to end strife in the Middle East should be an inspiration for ...

A book worth buying and on 'Teaching Stuff'

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Imperfect Knowledge Economics: Exchange Rates and Risk by Roman Frydman & Michael D. Goldberg but only when it's cheaper. Reviews a...

Musharraf defender of democracy in Pakistan?

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According to Bush ; President Bush yesterday offered his strongest support of embattled Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, saying the gen...

A Turkey Fact of the Day

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Around 46m birds will be served up at the dinner table says the National Turkey Federation , a trade body. Turkey farmers also have reason ...

How Mankiw did his PhD in 2 years

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Mankiw writes ; Yes, I managed to earn a PhD in two years of residence at MIT. Here is how: 1. During my last year as an undergrad at Pri...

Why I Blog

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Thanks, Chris for the comment . As usual, it's like being a kid in a candy store. I'm awed by the volume of high-quality daily links...

Imagining a Thanksgiving

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A Happy Thanksgiving The Tragedy of the Commons ; Every year around this time, schoolchildren are taught about that wonderful day when Pilgr...

Grand Challenge in Health

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Grand challenges in chronic non-communicable diseases ; To develop the grand challenges, we used the Delphi method — the structured, sequen...

Working Paper for the Day

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Financial Linkages Between the U.S. and Latin Amercia: Evidence from Daily Data Summary: Motivated by recent bursts of global financial mark...
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Climate Change - Getting it Right

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Another report - this time from Australia; Chapter 4: Reviewing Stern - Lessons for Australia By Robert Mendelsohn Although the Stern Revi...

Islam by West for West

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Islam, Slavery and Rape 101 Ways to Create Misunderstanding in this complex world

Assorted Podcasts Carnival

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The enigma of Raymond Dart, the Australian discoverer of man's African origins The nature of altruism Researchers at the University of C...
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Quote of the Day

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' I hope the time isn't far off when I shall be able to establish a regime based on the principles of Qur'an ,' That was all...

Information Asymmetry reversed

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A Doctor’s Disdain for Medical ‘Googlers’ ; Can a patient ever show up at the doctor’s office with too much information? A doctor’s essay ab...
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100 dollar Laptop Microfinance

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Sounds an interesting idea ; Accordingly, I urge you to provide for some way to connect OLPC donors with recipients, à la the Kiva microcred...

The Power of Survey Design

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Unaids has finally read The Power of Survey Design , I guess. U.N. Agency Denies Inflating Cases of H.I.V. Deliberately ; The lower figure i...

Readings for the Day

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Doing growth diagnostics well How Dangerous Is America? Easterly Reviews Collier Resource abundance and corporate transparency Maternal Educ...

Artist of the Day

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" Girl with a Fan " by Titian Via NYT, Business (Some Unfinished) From Titian, 1500s C.E.O ; Does Titian’s late style betray aging...

Physiology in 1871

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Description of the Brain of an Idiot , Journal of Anatomy and Physiology , 1871 via Mind Hacks ; Back in 1871, the term 'idiot' was ...

Assorted PFM

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Bill Dorotinsky (formerly at U.S. Office of Management and Budget and World Bank) has interesting commentary at IMF blog on Public Financia...

Another Conference on Corruption

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The International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities- 2nd Annual Conference

Russian Economic Reports

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From World Bank, Russian Economic Report, November 2007

Monetary Policy in Afghanistan

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Statement by the IMF Mission at the Conclusion of the Discussions for the 2007 Article IV Consultation ; Monetary policy has remained broadl...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Best Comment of the Day

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Over at FP blog ; More broadly, Lebanon is just one more example of a mistaken U.S. approach to foreign policy that dates back decades and a...

Thank You, Rodrik for clarifying it

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"The language of "growth diagnostics" and of "removing binding constraints" is becoming so commonplace in multilate...

Strangest search words of the day

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' are women good leaders '

Congratulations to Karen Armstrong

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for winning the TED Prize A list of her books - recommended to everyone.
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Milton Friedman Choir

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Via Alex Tabarrok For a different perspective read, watch The Corporation
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

From NYT

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Q & A: Baghdad Correspondent on End of the Surge Guess the number of reporters NYT has in Iraq.

What Al Gore is up to

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Planet-saving VC ; We're sitting in the giant conference room at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers , where the partners hold their we...

New York Architecture Guide

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New York Architecture Guide A Short History of the Manhattan Skyscraper

Lawyers after Architect

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MIT Sues Gehry M.I.T. Sues Frank Gehry, Citing Flaws in Center He Designed The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has sued the architect ...

Reading List for the Day

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The Credit Card Bill Comes Due (International Version) Open Economy Macro Economics in many lessons: A better brew for Rwanda Frequent Flier...

The Seven Wonders of the Totalitarian World

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The Seven Wonders of the Totalitarian World I think the winner is the following; Monument to President Saparmurat Niyazov Via Bryan Caplan

What Europe thinks about Islam?

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Does Islam have a sense of humour?

Was Easterly right about role of Aid Agencies?

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The story of HIV infection numbers ; The latest estimates, due to be released publicly Tuesday, put the number of annual new HIV infections ...

The art of making an effective argument

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Learn from Milton Friedman;

Presidential Management Fellows

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If you want to work for the Federal Government ; “The purpose of the Program is to attract to the Federal service outstanding men and women ...

Podcast of the Day

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Sunstein on Worst-case Scenarios from Econ Talk

China's Internal Migrants

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A good documentary from Al Jazeera; More then 150 million Chinese workers have left the country's impoverished countryside to find work ...

Trade paper of the Day

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Export Diversification; What’s behind the Hump? by Céline Carrère , Vanessa Strauss-Kahn , and Olivier Cadot The paper explores the evoluti...