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1. Another one strikes black gold (trying desperately to resist using the line from Queen’s popular song)

2. Can stocks be safer than bonds (strange times, right?)

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5. Robert Skidelsky’ – Life after Capitalism (Let me just quote Mark Twain: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated).

John Lanchester in LRB:

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The Economist’s Babbage blog describes it in great details. If you are still interested in more, listen to this hour-long Econtalk podcast with Gavin Andresen, Principal of the BitCoin Virtual Currency Project.

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As one who Buy Lunesta With No Prescription has a Masters degree in Development Studies but who chose to Buy Lunesta With No Prescription do a PhD in anthropology because I found that development research is Buy Lunesta With No Prescription all too often dealing with quantitave, “generalisable” data, and Buy Lunesta With No Prescription who has concluded said PhD, I find it really interesting that Buy Lunesta With No Prescription the RCT movement in economics seem to be taking credit, in the Buy Lunesta With No Prescription media and in policy circles, for what ethnographers – anthropologists, rural sociologists, historians, human geographers – have Buy Lunesta With No Prescription been saying all along. This is that things are a lot more complicated than Buy Lunesta With No Prescription people want to think, that it is extremely difficult to find a Buy Lunesta With No Prescription generalisable explanation, and that at the end of the day, what Buy Lunesta With No Prescription leads one to better understanding of issues is attention to personal stories, and Buy Lunesta With No Prescription an attempt to tease out how those stories are linked to Buy Lunesta With No Prescription larger structures, like local politics, regional politics, the economic structures, colonisation, culture etc. etc. One cannot arrive at this Buy Lunesta With No Prescription sort of understanding without spending time trying to understand the interaction between all these elements. Now that Buy Lunesta With No Prescription economists have discovered qualitative research it seems as if it were never there, as if there aren’t people who Buy Lunesta With No Prescription have been pointing to the importance of understanding nuances and Buy Lunesta With No Prescription personal stories.

I have Buy Lunesta With No Prescription deliberately refrained from commenting on RCT in economics because I wanted to Buy Lunesta With No Prescription read some of the texts, but since Edward Carr took thoughts out of my head I thought I would quote him and Buy Lunesta With No Prescription call attention to the fact that these kinds of studies have Buy Lunesta With No Prescription been going on for a long while. If economists are not aware of that Buy Lunesta With No Prescription (I think some of them are) it is their fault for not looking at other social sciences.

My copy of Karlan’s book is Buy Lunesta With No Prescription in the post to me, and I look forward to Buy Lunesta With No Prescription reading it. I doubt that I will learn anything new from Buy Lunesta With No Prescription it, but I feel it is important, as an economic anthropologist, to Buy Lunesta With No Prescription know what economists are doing. I wish economists would extend the Buy Lunesta With No Prescription same courtesy to other disciplines whose works often overlap with theirs.

And on RCT itself, check out the link that my brother, a Buy Lunesta With No Prescription medical doctor and researcher, sent me. It is a Lancet article titled “A philosopher’s view of the long road from RCTs to effectiveness”. Remember, RCT has been in medical and pharmacological research for a while.

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