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Thursday, April 30
$1000 prize for short essay on measurement & public policy
by
DianeC
on Thu 30 Apr 2009 16:19 BST
For all those with something to say about the need for better measurement to inform public policy, I bring you ... more »
Wednesday, April 29
Friday, April 24
Light reading on statistics
by
DianeC
on Fri 24 Apr 2009 18:21 BST
As a little light relief from ethics, social justice, well-being etc, I just finished The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules ... more »
Wednesday, April 22
Monday, April 20
Sunday, April 19
Akerlof and Shiller's Animal Spirits
by
DianeC
on Sun 19 Apr 2009 18:59 BST
There is a new review in today's New York Times by Louis Uchitelle - the book, which is a great ... more »
Saturday, April 18
Books on India
by
DianeC
on Sat 18 Apr 2009 10:53 BST
Ever since I started visiting Delhi for the mobiles in India report, I've been reading books on the Indian economy ... more »
Thursday, April 16
Grumpy Old Bankers
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DianeC
on Thu 16 Apr 2009 15:17 BST
Grumpy Old Bankers has been published by the marvellous Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, with a hugely ... more »
Wednesday, April 15
Galbraith and other Crash books, ancient and modern
by
DianeC
on Wed 15 Apr 2009 10:43 BST
My old friend Nick Cohen (author of the excellent Waiting for the Etonians and What's Left and Observer columnist extraordinaire) ... more »
Monday, April 13
The Match King
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DianeC
on Mon 13 Apr 2009 18:22 BST
Ivar Krueger, who he? That was my reaction to The Match King by Frank Partnoy, author of an entertaining book ... more »
Saturday, April 11
Friday, April 10
Tuesday, April 7
Review of Otmar Issing's book on the Birth of the Euro
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DianeC
on Tue 07 Apr 2009 14:14 BST
This new book by the origins of the Euro by one of its intellectual architects, the ECB board member and ... more »
Review of Economics 2.0
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DianeC
on Tue 07 Apr 2009 13:53 BST
There is a positive review of Economics 2.0 by Norbert Haring and Olaf Storbeck in Chris Dillow's always-interesting Stumbling and ... more »
Mostly Harmless Econometrics Very Helpful
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DianeC
on Tue 07 Apr 2009 10:29 BST
It's taken me a few weeks to work through Joshua Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke's Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion... more »
Friday, April 3
Stephen Marglin's The Dismal Science
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DianeC
on Fri 03 Apr 2009 21:48 BST
The subtitle of Stephen Marglin's new book gives away the conclusion: The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like An Economist Undermines ... more »
Wednesday, April 1
Another review of Animal Spirits
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DianeC
on Wed 01 Apr 2009 17:52 BST
This thoughtful book by George Akerlof and Bob Shiller is reviewed at length in The New Republic by Richard Posner. ... more »
Sale of Cambridge University Press economics titles
by
DianeC
on Wed 01 Apr 2009 14:09 BST
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