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January 19, 2024
I’ve got to write these links quickly, before my fingers freeze altogether and I’m left tapping icicles on the keyboard in an attempt to make my points here. It’s about -3 degrees centigrade outside (about 26 Fahrenheit), and before the Americans and Canadians burst out laughing, our houses are not...
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January 12, 2024
Happy new year! I crossed midnight and rang in 2024 being forced to watch The Holiday (my one line review: Cameron Diaz cannot convincingly play a human being, and poor Kate Winslet) and reading Paul Auster’s new book, Baumgartner when the film became too much to watch (one line review: Paul Auster ...
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December 18, 2023
The Lancet Investing in Health Commission, led by Larry Summers and Dean Jamison in 2013, envisioned a grand convergence in key health indicators by 2035 between low-income and low-middle-income countries and the best-performing middle-income countries. Given significant global changes since the rep...
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December 18, 2023
The DI job market papers series is winding up, but two very good ones came out this week. First, I was a big fan of Sergio Puerto’s paper on how seed developers do not get the most out of the seeds they develop by failing to account for and cater to the heterogeneity of farmers.
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December 08, 2023
Every once in a while, a moment acts to define an era, marking the precise second that the tides have shifted. Like the first scene of Pulp Fiction, on its release in 1994: at the moment Miserlou starts playing, that was it: this was what every film was going to be like for the next 10 years. The op...