Darwin awards: Two daredevils playing tennis on a flying airplane
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in economics of media and culture, transport economics Tags: Darwin awards
The first fridge for a family and whole village
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in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, global poverty, India, The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact
A great hard left critique of the Greens continued
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in environmentalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: activists, British politics, do gooders, environmental movement, expressive voting, Greens, Leftover Left
Quality control in Japanese and American car manufacturing compared
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in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth miracles Tags: creative destruction, Japanese manufacturing, quality control
Spot the jihadist translated from French
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in economics of crime, economics of religion, occupational choice, war and peace Tags: France, Jihadists, war on terror
Benefits of Academic Blogging
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in economics
| Peter Klein |
I sometimes worry that the blog format is being displaced by Facebook, Twitter, and similar platforms, but Patrick Dunleavy from the LSE Impact of Social Science Blog remains a fan of academic blogs, particularly focused group blogs like, ahem, O&M. Patrick argues that blogging (supported by academic tweeting) is “quick to do in real time”; “communicates bottom-line results and ‘take aways’ in clear language, yet with due regard to methods issues and quality of evidence”; helps “create multi-disciplinary understanding and the joining-up of previously siloed knowledge”; “creates a vastly enlarged foundation for the development of ‘bridging’ academics, with real inter-disciplinary competences”; and “can also support in a novel and stimulating way the traditional role of a university as an agent of ‘local integration’ across multiple disciplines.”
Patrick also usefully distinguishes between solo blogs, collaborative or group blogs (like O&M), and multi-author blogs (professionally edited and produced, purely academic)…
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ISIS sympathizer’s road to jihad — from Canada to Syria to Iraq — tracked one Tweet at a time
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in politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: ISIS, Middle-East politics, Twitter, war on terror
You must read the maps showing with his tweets.
This gives you hope when idiots like this can be recruited by the Jihadists. This tosser is not the first moron recruited into their ranks with their locator button on in their twitter account.
Adventures (Tragedy) of Greek Drachma: From 1830s to joining Euro
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in economics
Excellent roundup of the frequent exits of Greece from monetary unions
Not sure why we don’t really have many papers on history of Greece economy circulating around. We are told repeatedly that Greece has a terrible economic and political history full of crises. But the empirical or historical work is rare to find.
I discovered this gem of a paper by Sophia Lazaretou of Bank of Greece. It gives history of Greek Drachma and monetary developments from the 1830s to joining Euro. She calls it adventures of Greek Drachma though on reading it you realise it is more of tragedy. And with the current experiences , even tragedy is a light term.
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A new rule for scientific discussion
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in health economics, liberalism Tags: conjecture and refutation, quackery
What is the Fatal Conceit?
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in Austrian economics, F.A. Hayek Tags: The fatal conceit
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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