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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Links of Interest
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Africa: Soon to be the next China? How to Get the Biggest Bang for 10 Billion Bucks (Bjorn Lomborg argues that the same dollar spent on t...
Martin S. Feldstein: "Father of modern NBER"
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David Warsh extols the contribution of Martin S. Feldstein, whom he labels as "father of modern NBER" : Here’s a challenge f...
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Government activism in the US
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Here is a brief history, from the WSJ, about activism in the US. (Long story short: The more the depth of market failure, the more longer t...
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Economic Growth: Institutions rule but endowments do matter more than expected
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What are the reasons for highly rich and poor country clubs? The reasons vary based on researchers-- institutions, geography, genetical...
The Last Lecture
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First I read it in the WSJ, then in NYT, then in Time, then in Post, and in many blogs...It is about Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie M...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
What is really causing global food price to rise so rapidly?
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There has been tremendous buzz about the real culprits of global food price inflation--some blame increasing demand from China and India, so...
Trade pigs for daughters, but keep both!
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This is one ingenious way to stop human trafficking, especially girls for sex and house labor. It is like putting a market value for girls a...
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