1. The 5 basic laws of human stupidity 2. Debraj Ray on when African Dictator Meets the White Man 3. The 11th Midwest International Economic Development Conference is announced (here are the papers for the 2013 conference held at the University of Wisconsin) HT @MFBellemarle 4. And the @UNUWIDER conference on inclusive growth (and the papers including @JustinSandefour … [Read more...] about 10 links for the weekend (and how to read them faster)
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Eight Friday links
This article defends payday lending, but is all the information disclosed? Can computers measure your happiness? Digital records of Victorian and Edwardian criminals … [Read more...] about Eight Friday links
Chocolate and Nobel prizes, corruption, your favorite tweeters and more random Monday links
And now that Alvin Roth (see his blog) and Lloyd Shapley just received the Nobel Prize in Economics, the sweet link of the day: Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates It seems that we don’t know much on which anti-corruption policies are effective (or not), but crowd-mapping corruption with mobile phones has spread from India to Russia, Colombia and … [Read more...] about Chocolate and Nobel prizes, corruption, your favorite tweeters and more random Monday links
9 useful links
Starting today we will publish every Monday a few links that we find particularly useful or interesting. If you have any suggestions please post them in the comments section. As school is starting it is useful to review some development economics resources and syllabi. Here is Chris Blattman’s on the political economy of African Development at Columbia, Nancy Birdsall’s on … [Read more...] about 9 useful links