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  • Dan Brown's Take on Population Growth

    posted to Bookish Posts on Wed 22nd May 13

    <iframe src="http://embedded-video.guardianapps.co.uk/?a=false&u=/books/video/2013/may/22/dan-brown-inferno-interview-video" frameborder="0" width="460" height="397"></iframe>In the interview embedded here from the Guardian's website, Dan Brown,

  • The Trade of of Graduate Economists

    posted to Bookish Posts on Tue 14th May 13

    "Most economists start graduate school not having spent much time thinking about social problems or studied much else besides math and economics. The incentive and hierarchy systems tend to reward those with the technical skills rather than interesting questions

  • The Real Lesson of the Excel Error

    posted to Bookish Posts on Tue 30th Apr 13

    As reiterated by this NYT article by Robert Pollin and Michael Ash, the main debate that animates commentators is the relationship between national debt and GDP growth. This discourse has arisen from an error that on an Excel sheet during the publication of

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  • Dan Brown's Take on Population Growth

    posted to Bookish Posts on Wed 22nd May 13

    <iframe src="http://embedded-video.guardianapps.co.uk/?a=false&u=/books/video/2013/may/22/dan-brown-inferno-interview-video" frameborder="0" width="460" height="397"></iframe>In the interview embedded here from the Guardian's website, Dan Brown,

  • The Trade of of Graduate Economists

    posted to Bookish Posts on Tue 14th May 13

    "Most economists start graduate school not having spent much time thinking about social problems or studied much else besides math and economics. The incentive and hierarchy systems tend to reward those with the technical skills rather than interesting questions

  • The Real Lesson of the Excel Error

    posted to Bookish Posts on Tue 30th Apr 13

    As reiterated by this NYT article by Robert Pollin and Michael Ash, the main debate that animates commentators is the relationship between national debt and GDP growth. This discourse has arisen from an error that on an Excel sheet during the publication of