Manufactured controversy and the “hockey stick”: A football analogy
Even if you’re only vaguely aware of the climate change debate, then you will probably have heard of the “hockey stick”. You know, this bad boy:<table ali...
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Predictable Nobel Prizes in the Economic Sciences?
The subject line is taken from an email sent around my department by one of the finance profs. Here’s the email itself:<blockquote class="tr_bq">A curi...
Obligatory comment on the 2013 Nobelists
Seeing as it is very de jour to comment on this sort of thing in the econ blogosphere, here is a quick personal take:I know that this year’s laureates have r...
Quote of the Day - Privacy
"At a moment of austerity and with a general sense that our state's ability to guarantee prosperity for its citizens is in retreat, that same state is about ...
Why a functioning electricity grid is crucial to economic development
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