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Assorted links
1. Greg Clark on China and Arrighi
2. Economists study African-American women
3. New futures/options on non-farm payroll
4. Gambler sues bookmaker after losing his money
5. Markets in everything: a whole radio channel devoted to Spitzer news
Many thanks to readers for these pointers...
Posted by Tyler Cowen on March 16, 2008 at 08:33 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink
Comments
So what happened to that African book list?
Posted by: jorod at Mar 16, 2008 12:20:54 PM
It might be sad that Arrighi ignores economic history facts, still it is less fun, when a country leaders choose to make such views an state ideology.
Here in Russia ruling party ( which has more than 75 % seats in parliament ) hires such people as Sergey Kara Murza ( who was a communist ideologist just few years back, but he is just one example - here are hordes of such persons ) to push quite the same ideas that West 'exploit' every other country, and Russia in particular case.
Still we even have no translations of the works by authors Clark mentions, as such persons like Gaidar prefer to publish books both in russian and english , but not to assist to translate any works into russian which possibly could make them look less attractive as 'free market' ideologists for local masses.
It is really interesting feeling to live among people which were fooled by ideology and which ( as even those who knows English does not buy books at Amazon etc ) have no chance to fix it as every one involved in creating the situation is interested in status quo.
Posted by: Sergey Kurdakov at Mar 16, 2008 1:48:16 PM
Re: Raid on Berkeley
Well, It's not as though us undergrads at Berkeley actually get to interact with most of the top faculty, so it actually doesn't impact me much. In fact half of the econ courses I've taken here have been taught by visiting professors. I got visiting faculty for the intermediate micro/macro sequence which is usually taught by Card/Delong. Should have gone to Chicago... haha
Posted by: at Mar 16, 2008 3:52:36 PM
As a berkeley alum, it does affect us...when you graduate, those same "star" professors are the guys backing the marketability of our degrees.
Sigh. Whatever happened to the idea that degrees actually showed learning?
And be glad you didn't go to Chicago. All the rigor of Berkeley in crappy weather and crappier sisters of mary jane.
Posted by: Alum at Mar 16, 2008 5:34:50 PM
