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Managing Your Career as an Economist after Tenure

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Sat, 28 May 2011 07:32:00 +0000

Managing Your Career as an Economist after Tenure

—Robert E. Hall,

Robert and Carole McNeil Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow,

Hoover Institution, Stanford Universit

Economic games

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:14:00 +0000

Games for learning economics

http://www.economicgames.org

Mostlyharmlesseconometrics

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:34:00 +0000

http://www.mostlyharmlesseconometrics.com

Governance, Growth, and Development Decision-making

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:19:00 +0000

By

Douglass North
Daron Acemoglu
Francis Fukuyama
Dani Rodrik

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTPUBLICSECTORANDGOVERNANCE/Resources/governanceandgrowth.pdf

http://www.nash-equilibrium.com

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:08:00 +0000

Dedicated to the advancement of economics, pricing, and strategy.

http://www.nash-equilibrium.com/

Wong: How To Write A Research Proposal

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:36:00 +0000

http://www.meaning.ca/archives/archive/art_how_to_write_P_Wong.htm

Athey: Advice for Applying to Grad School in Economics

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:41:00 +0000

http://kuznets.fas.harvard.edu/~athey/gradadv.html

G.A. Akerlof: Writing the "The Market for 'Lemons'": A Personal and Interpretive Essay

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:41:00 +0000

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/articles/akerlof/index.html

C. Blattman: How to get a PhD and save the world

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:24:00 +0000

http://chrisblattman.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-get-phd-and-save-world.html

'Tis the season for graduate school applications and associated angst. Several aspiring political scientists and economists have asked me for my thoughts and advice, and I've generally started by pointing them to Greg Mankiw's excellent Advice for Aspiring Economists and Advice for Grad Students.

Mankiw's advice does not quite cater, however, to those of us that are young, idealistic, and want to pursue PhD research that makes life better for those less fortunate. For those so inclined, I offer the following addenda.

WRI-Plants at the Pump: Biofuels, Climate Change, and Sustainability

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:00:00 +0000

http://pdf.wri.org/plants_at_the_pump.pdf

H-W. Sinn: Food or Fuel?

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:38:00 +0000

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sinn17/English

The Economist: The End of Cheap Food

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:32:00 +0000

Rising food prices are a threat to many; they also present the world with an enormous opportunity

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10252015

Rising incomes in Asia and ethanol subsidies in America have put an end to a long era of falling food prices

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10250420

Resources for Economists

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:52:00 +0000

http://www.aeaweb.org/RFE

S. Johnson-Food and Biofuels: The Price of Success

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:40:00 +0000

"In a column in the December 2007 edition of Finance & Development magazine, IMF Chief Economist Simon Johnson looks at how the adoption of biofuels is driving up world food prices. He suggests that rich countries could help limit the rise, which is hurting the poor in low-income countries the most, by removing ethanol subsidies and cutting high tariffs."

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2007/RES123A.htm

Sherwin Rosen

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:58:00 +0000

http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/srosen.html

"SHERWIN ROSEN WAS ONE of the great applied microeconomic theorists of recent decades. His life was devoted to understanding how diverse people, products, and technologies could be brought together and allocated appropriately. As an example of the kind of analyses that Rosen pioneered, consider the many varieties of automobiles that are produced. Some are higher quality than others, some are small, some are large, some fast, some slow, some are beautiful, and others are comfortable. People have different preferences with respect to these attributes. A larger person might prefer a larger car. A daredevil might like a faster one. How does the right car get to the right person? The obvious answer is that the market ensures that cars are available and consumers, through free choice, purchase the car they want. But at what price? How are the prices of the various attributes set so as to equate supply with demand, not just for some homogeneous commodity like wheat but also for some complex good like an automobile?"

The Economic Naturalist by R. H. Frank

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:45:00 +0000

http://www.robert-h-frank.com/book.html

http://www.robert-h-frank.com/ENIntroduction.pdf

[from the Introduction]

In short, the human brain’s specialty seems to be absorbing
information in narrative form. My economic naturalist writing
assignment plays directly to this strength. It calls for the title of
each student’s paper to be a question. For three reasons, I have
found it useful to insist that students pose the most interesting
questions they can. First, to come up with an interesting question,
they must usually consider numerous preliminary questions, and
this itself is a useful exercise. Second, students who come up with
interesting questions have more fun with the assignment and
devote more energy to it. And third, the student who poses an
interesting question is more likely to tell others about it. If you
can’t actually take an idea outside the classroom and use it, you
don’t really get it. But once you use it on your own, it is yours
forever.

Econtalk.org

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:40:00 +0000

http://www.econtalk.org

Economics podcasts for daily life. Hosted by Russ Roberts.

Globalisation Institute

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:38:00 +0000

http://www.globalisation.eu

"The Globalisation Institute is a Brussels-headquartered think tank that promotes ideas to help Europe thrive in the global economy"

Tim Harford-Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:04:00 +0000

The Undercover Economist

http://timharford.com

Biofuels : Is the cure worse than the disease ?

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:24:00 +0000

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/15/46/39348696.pdf

The 20th meeting of the Round Table on Sustainable Development on 11-12 September 2007 considered the sustainable potential of biofuels and government policies to support them. Ministers from OECD member and non members countries, senior representatives of international organisations, academia, civil society, and senior private sector executives discussed the technical potential of biofuels production and national and international policies to promote their development.

Biofuels could boost global warming

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:19:00 +0000

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2007/September/21090701.asp

PJ Crutzen et al, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 2007, 7, 11191

"Growing and burning many biofuels may actually raise rather than lower greenhouse gas emissions, a new study led by Nobel prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen has shown. The findings come in the wake of a recent OECD report, which warned nations not to rush headlong into growing energy crops because they cause food shortages and damage biodiversity...

But other experts are critical of Crutzen's approach. Simon Donner, a nitrogen researcher based at Princeton University, US, says the method is elegant but there is little evidence to show the N2O yield from fertilized plants is really as high as 3-5 per cent. Crutzen's basic assumption, that pre-industrial N2O emissions are the same as natural N2O emissions, is 'probably wrong', says Donner."

Mancur Olson

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:59:00 +0000

http://www.iris.umd.edu/StaticReader.aspx/About_IRIS/History/Mancur_Olson.htm

“Rather than being a luxury that only rich countries can afford, individual rights are essential to obtaining the bounteous harvests that property-intensive and contract-intensive production can yield.” Mancur Olson, Power and Prosperity

The Journal of Irreproducible Results

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:48:00 +0000

http://www.jir.com/links.html

Carbon Monitoring For Action

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:20:00 +0000

http://carma.org/

"CARMA reveals the carbon emissions of more than 50,000 power plants and 4,000 power companies in every country on Earth."

Inside the Economist's Mind

noreply@blogger.com (Gökhan Özertan) — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:17:00 +0000

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=9781405157155

Interviews:
1. An Interview with Wassily Leontief (Interviewed by Duncan K. Foley).
2. An Interview with David Cass (Interviewed jointly by Stephen E. Spear and Randall Wright).
3. An Interview with Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (Interviewed by Bennett T. McCallum).
4. An Interview with János Kornai (Interviewed by Olivier Blanchard).
5. An Interview with Franco Modigliani (Interviewed by William A. Barnett and Robert Solow).
6. An Interview with Milton Friedman (Interviewed by John B. Taylor).
7. An Interview with Paul A. Samuelson (Interviewed by William A. Barnett).
8. An Interview with Paul A. Volcker (Interviewed by Perry Mehrling).
9. An Interview with Martin Feldstein (Interviewed by James M. Poterba).
10. An Interview with Christopher A. Sims (Interviewed by Lars Peter Hansen).
11. An Interview with Robert J. Shiller (Interviewed by John Y. Campbell).
12. An Interview with Stanley Fischer (Interviewed by Olivier Blanchard).
13. An Interview with Jacques Drèze (Interviewed by Pierre Dehez and Omar Licandro).
14. An Interview with Thomas J. Sargent (Interviewed by George W. Evans and Seppo Honkapohja).
15. An Interview with Robert Auman (Interviewed by Sergiu Hart).
16. Conversations with James Tobin and Robert Shiller on the "Yale Tradition" in Macroeconomics (Conducted by David Colander).

Gokhan Ozertan's Links

Managing Your Career as an Economist after Tenure

Economic games

Mostlyharmlesseconometrics

Governance, Growth, and Development Decision-making

http://www.nash-equilibrium.com

Wong: How To Write A Research Proposal

Athey: Advice for Applying to Grad School in Economics

G.A. Akerlof: Writing the "The Market for 'Lemons'": A Personal and Interpretive Essay

C. Blattman: How to get a PhD *and* save the world

WRI-Plants at the Pump: Biofuels, Climate Change, and Sustainability

H-W. Sinn: Food or Fuel?

The Economist: The End of Cheap Food

Resources for Economists

S. Johnson-Food and Biofuels: The Price of Success

Sherwin Rosen

The Economic Naturalist by R. H. Frank

Econtalk.org

Globalisation Institute

Tim Harford-Blog

Biofuels : Is the cure worse than the disease ?

Biofuels could boost global warming

Mancur Olson

The Journal of Irreproducible Results

Carbon Monitoring For Action

Inside the Economist's Mind

C. Blattman: How to get a PhD and save the world