Good! RT @jameswpaterson: Important and very welcome decision by cabinet to reject bailing out SPC: http://t.co/D8kuhVb1su
Excellent Edsall (NYT) discussion of Picketty on inequality. I agree with Acemogulu (subtext: risk of moral panic):http://t.co/CpKlQfdTUs
21st century agreement? Hah! Equally likely #TPP will be shaped by U.S protection from 19th C. (sugar, tobacco, labor, textiles, IP rents..)
Worried that @DrMichaelMosley (& editors) a bit loose with bio-sums: a BILLION mitochondria in a grain of sand (p74)?? One MILLION possibly.
Do we really need to entangle a simple, powerful idea (open markets) in these ever more prescriptive architectures?::http://t.co/BRFnH5qWj4
MRevUniversity Brief video on Nobel Prize-winner Elinor Ostrom’s contributions to development #economics: bit.ly/Hu4E4B
snlester Just based on Obama’s tone, I feel like the spying programs are being expanded.
AaronsonSusan Hope President will do more re. the trade and trust implications of NSA activities.
Great brief on moral hazard, risks of monetary policy in US, Eur. Govts often inflate out of debt but this is madness:is.gd/Kv8QKF
Dusty, smudgy, stencilled records: decaying treasures! In Paris to wrap-up research for a history of @iccwbo_org::yfrog.com/nuxibkspj
Neither G20 plans for WTO post-Bali nor prospective FTAs offer returns as big, sure or soon as opening our own market:http://t.co/JvSStU4gq9
Is this report showing NSA snooping does not catch terrorists (a) unsurprising (b) pretty damning (c) both of those?:http://t.co/64VPalPyZ7
And still(!) the NYTimes blind-eyes one crucial fact in reports on the ice-floe tar-baby story in Antarctic http://t.co/2dMh53yl67
@scottlincicome Actually, that has its upsides. My students mostly foreigners (god bless them!) @snlester @kw_watson
@scottlincicome Hope you charge less than @snlester and @kw_watson
Some great loot here! Thanks Scott! RT @scottlincicome: My International Trade Policy Course: Description & Syllabus goo.gl/fb/LuD4C
Historic ‘Phillips curve’ for US. Problem for Phillips’ theory was the N.E. movement (blue line), I believe. http://t.co/RVGtEM5NSp
snlester A prediction for 2014: Some people will say things that other people find offensive.
Good luck in 2014!