Big Bang
I just finished reading “Big Bang” by Simon Singh. It’s a fascinating account of the history of astronomy/cosmology, starting from the days people believed the
Economics departments rankings
Today’s post on Mankiw’s blogalerted me to a ranking of econ departmentsthat I’ve never seen before. Notice that Mankiw lists this ranking first, followed by
Credit Card Reform
American Express sent me a notice today about the credit card reform bill and how it may affect my account. For the most part, this
Spam and spam
Although Google has perfected the search engine (or at least made it very very very good at finding exactly what you need), it’s still far
Toxins
A recent Scientific American article(you need to be a subscriber to read it though) demonstrated one of my favorite caveats about inferring whether something is
The funny part of the PhD
Sometimes I imagine how much more depressing my PhD would be without PhD comics. Then I wake up in a cold sweat to happily find
On the third hand
From my slowly-coming-together paper draft: “The effect of capital shocks on the labor market is also ambiguous, even if population and prices are held constant.
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