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April 30, 2021
A long weekend beckons invitingly, thus obliterating my ability to settle on a good intro to the links. Time was, the extra day off would be put fully to work: a night out with far too much wine and rich food, sleeping in the next day and then a lazy day in a comfortable chair and pile of books.
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April 23, 2021
What a week. This week’s links are a bit of a mood rollercoaster, because well [waves hands frantically at all of this going on around us]. Honestly, my son is seven months old. He’s now lived through a two strict national lockdowns in response to a rampaging global pandemic, the development an...
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April 16, 2021
This week has rushed by in the blink of an eye, despite spending far more of my time awake and holding a restless baby than asleep at night. You’d imagine that all those extra minutes would make for the slow passing of time, but instead they seem to have compressed time into essentially two memories...
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April 09, 2021
First off, an apology: I completely forgot about the Easter weekend and hence failed to warn you all that I’d be skipping an edition of the links. Not deluding myself that more than three of you noticed, but just in case your Saturday morning cornflakes lacked that economisticky savour, you have my ...
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March 26, 2021
It’s been quite the week for extraordinary behaviour with foodstuffs. A Taiwanese man has inadvertently changed his name permanently to ‘Salmon Dream’ in an attempt to access free sushi, yet this is somehow not the most ridiculous food-related public idiocy of the week: I present Charles W...
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March 19, 2021
The digital CSAE Conference kicked off this week, and will involve sessions online all the way through next Friday – and it’s free! If you haven’t already registered, you can still do so here, and I couldn’t recommend it more highly. It’s my favourite economics conference, with scholars from ar...
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March 12, 2021
It’s always hard to open the links when a Sri Lanka ODI is still at that point where we might win, if sufficient miracles occur, rather than at the point where I can simply make darkly comic jokes about the pits of human despair (a place new parents with teething children are well-acquainted). Speak...