Some of the writers from TVHE have grouped together with other football fans to write a football blog. The current focus of this blog is on the 2010 Fifa World Cup. It can be found here: http://vuvuzelaventing.wordpress.com/ On the blog they go through their views on the different World Cup groups, and who they think …
Monthly Archive: May 2010
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May
28
2010
Economic analysis and politics
One quick point. Everyone keeps telling me “but in political reality” whenever I say that there are trade-offs being missed in political party discussions. I would like to point out that when an economist does analysis they don’t give two-cents worth of a care to this. When it comes to making a policy it is …
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May
27
2010
Reuters poll of economists tips Spain for World Cup win
This article made my day. I am also picking Spain to win the world cup, but I am heavily biased since my mother is Spanish. It is good to know that my profression has my back on this one though:) So if the economists are right on this one we should expect to see Torres …
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May
27
2010
Fiscal policy camps
In an email exchange with fellow economists from around the place I made the following wild conjectures on why fiscal stimulus could be seen as a good idea – but isn’t necessarily first best. Feel free to read and critique
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May
26
2010
National, Labour, Greens: You all get this, please help clear it up!
Ok, first off, I’m sorry I haven’t done a post-budget thing for a Green’s alternative budget yet – it will come, I’ve just been really really busy. Second, this talk on the ETS is irritating me. And it isn’t because of the description of what it will do to prices – this is true, the …
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May
26
2010
1000 posts
It seems I’ve done over 1000 posts in about 34 months. I must have written a lot of crap – my apologises to everyone that get forced into reading it I would pick a favourite post, but I can’t remember what I’ve written about. I view the blog as a tool for two things you …
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