TGI Friday – let’s see, what have economist bloggers and blogging economists prepared for us!
1. Interesting examples of perverse incentives from Mark Perry. Can you think of other examples? 2. How companies are replacing oil – from LA Times and Startribune. Again, examples from our reader would be appreciated. 3. Not exactly a blog post but an ingenuous business idea. Shall South Caucasus offer its united forces for sale too? J 4. What happens, when policymakers don’t know their Econ 101, from EclectEcon. 5. Pros and co...
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Jun
08
Jun
02
Another Friday – and a slightly overdue post with the news from all around econoblog-world. Some of my favourite bloggers seem to have taken a hiatus – hence the somewhat short post today.
1. Let’s start with some description of future events, were the Greece to leave the Euro. 2. And talking of the devil – a survivor’s guide for the end of the Euro itself, from the Baseline Scenario. 3. The Economist’s Free Exchange blog has a nice post on the “Facebook economy”. 4. And the same blog has a long but very interesting discussion ...
May
11
Another Friday – another post with interesting links on economics.
1. Let’s keep the tradition and start with a link from Michael Fuenfzig – property rights and internal migration in Russia. 2. Economics Blog tells us how austerity could be self-defeating. 3. For any Star War fans out there – was Death Star really worth all the fuss? 4. From The Atlantic – how being kidnapped by pirates is just something from game theory. 5. Noah Smith has an interesting post on the essence of financial crisis. 6. Again from Noah ...
May
04
It’s Friday – best day of the week and day of best links from around the world of econobloggers!
1. Let’s keep the tradition and start with two links from Michael Fuenfzig. First – a small post on identity in Georgia. 2. And second – projects like Lazika seem to gain popularity in the world. And this post argues that it’s not finances, that the developed countries should provide to such projects. (And also have a look at Michael’s last week post on our blog). 3. Calculated Risk blog has some nice graphs on US population distribution b...
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