The term “economics imperialism” has been coined in recent decades to describe a tendency of economists to meddle with such seemingly non-economic aspects of life as crime, the family, irrational behavior, politics, culture, religion and war. Mine is an attempt to invade the world of music.
Let’s visit Versaille first:
This is baroque music, middle baroque, to be more precise. It is written by a guy, whose name was Jean Baptiste Lully for another guy, who went by a nickname a Sun King. The latter was a sucker for a good operas, ballets and...
ISET Economist Blog
A blog about economics in the South Caucasus.
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13
Jul
06
The day of select economic links has come!
1. Ukrainewatch blog links to the ISET blog post by Michael Fuenfzig. International publicity is great! 2. Interesting stats from Mark Perry. I was always sure that US had the cheapest food compared to the income. My intuition was correct! 3. And from him again, a controversial but quite sensible post on racial diversity in practice. 4. Some economists think that there’s no real crisis in Europe. Do you agree? 5. The Economist writes about the similar recent decisions of three o...
Jun
29
Best day of the week – best links from Giorgi!
1. Sad news first – Anna Schwartz, famous for being Milton Friedman’s collaborator, passed away at the age of 96. RIP… 2. A somewhat original way of saving the Euro, from NY Times. 3. And an orthodox approach to the same problem, from Economics Help blog. 4. Not exactly economics (in fact, not economics at all!) but I’m sure you, as well as I, have long been interested why supermarket fruits and vegetables look so well and taste, erm, not so well. Here’s the answer for tomatoes. I’...
Jun
15
Best day of the week – best links from Giorgi!
1. A short note about inflation targeting pros and cons from Economics Blog. 2. Bloomberg tells us how the banks really became “too big to fail”. 3. The Economist tells us about of yet another reason to envy China. At least, from the India’s point of view. 4. Noah Smith tells us, what the college education is really about. 5. Nick Rowe has a new (at least for economists) meaning for the word “nonlinearity” and tells us what problems are there with linear and nonlinear presen...
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