Archive for October 17th, 2007
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links for 2007-10-17
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Presentation blogging creates the opportunity for weak ties among scholars, generating new information.
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Does it matter? Perhaps the honest answer is, only if things go wrong.
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Fotgängare som går över på övergångsställen invaggas i falsk trygghet, det tycker Vägverket som nu arbetar med att öka säkerheten, genom att ta bort övergångsställen.
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We [Huber and Stanig] analyze how institutions that establish the level of separation of church and state should influence the political economy of redistribution.
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen » EU-topmøde i Lissabon
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Ideology: Another Kind of “Trap” | TPMCafeI have to say that I find myself fairly unsympathetic to The Trap’s argument and skeptical of many of its empirical claims. Let me tackle Brook’s empirical case in this post.
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Gender discrimination is economically inefficient since it prevents equalisation of marginal products. Recent simulations based on calibrated macro models indicate that the economic loss is large. In one thought experiment, the research suggests that a ve
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Research has long shown that workers who take temp jobs subsequently do better in the labour market. New research from the US suggests that the positive effects seem mostly to occur because those working for temp agencies have a higher chance of subsequen
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Sovereign wealth funds are politically so hot that they competed with the summer’s financial crisis for media attention – both politicians and the press have expressed concern about their activities. Not many corporates have complained, however, and some
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Macusers think this is funny 
Say, Have You Read…?
I’m a little late here but back in January (!) Berlingske Tidende published the all-time list of books, people claim to have read even though they haven’t.
So, how did I do?
- J.R.R. Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Yes
- Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace: No
- John Gray – Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: 5 pages, then rolling on the floor laughing
- Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights: No (No Jane Austen, either)
- James Joyce – Ulysses: Yes. Three times, actually.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment: No (Russians are not for me. Sorry)
- George Orwell – 1984: Yes
- Charles Dickens – Great Expectations: No
- Anne Frank – Anne Frank’s Diary: Yes
- Franz Kafka: The Process: Yes (But I’m stuck in “The Castle”)
- Johannes V. Jensen – Kongens Fald: No (But I have read “Den lange rejse” and chunks of his poetry)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby: Yes
- John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath: Yes
I might add that I own a copy of “The da Vinci Code”. I managed one chapter, then decided that the writing was hopeless.
Oh, and by the way: Here’s an earlier post.