Dodging a bullet does not even begin to describe this near debacle, with Akron having shots into the end zone on the final four plays!Local news coverage he...
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Game: The Room
Posted on 9:44 AM by Unknown
My daughter and I have been playing "The Room" for the last couple of weeks. It is more of a puzzle than a game, and we have been doing it cooperatively rather than competitively which makes it even less game-like, but it is great fun. The puzzles are hard enough that you have to think a bit, but not so hard that you don't figure them out in finite time (and, of course, there are walkthroughs to be had all over the interwebs). And the game is visually stunning. Indeed, that may be its strongest feature. The sounds are fun too.Recommend...
Thursday, September 12, 2013
In praise of payday lenders
Posted on 7:15 AM by Unknown
From the Atlantic, something I never thought I would see: a thoughtful, empirically grounded defense of payday lenders and other alternative financial service providers for the poor written by a non-economist.The piece does a very good job of highlighting the strengths of ethnographic work.Of course, the policy paragraph at the end falls short of the standard set by the remainder of the discussion, but I suppose one can't have everythi...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods
Posted on 7:35 AM by Unknown
Local readers will be keenly aware that the most obvious thing that we lack around here is enough seminars to go to each week. After all, there are only two labor seminars, two public finance seminars, two development seminars, two macro seminars, an economic history seminar, an econometric seminar, a Ford School faculty work-in-progress seminar, two international / trade seminars, a health economics seminar, a new energy / environment economics seminar, two applied micro / IO seminars, a high theory seminar, the population center seminar, the...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Cheaters welcome at Harvard
Posted on 12:51 PM by Unknown
This survey of the incoming class, reported in the Harvard Crimson, is a bit troubling.Of course, this is what folks at Chicago suspected all along.Hat tip: anonymous insi...
Fantasy economics
Posted on 12:48 PM by Unknown
A proposal (apparently serious) for a REPEC fantasy economist league.I am speechless.Hat tip: Charlie Br...
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