Still interesting posts, here and there, on the internet,
- “The Problem With Math Is That It Makes People Seem Smart” peerreviewedbymyneurons.com/… via nb58 and J_P_Boucher
- “Parent first, lecturer second: what I’ve learned from being both” guardian.co.uk/… by ArmenianJames
- “Despite the evidence of fraudulent schemes, no firm has ever been disciplined by any professional accountancy body” guardian.co.uk/ … on “the predatory practices of major accountancy firms”
- “Tax the Traders! It Would Solve Economic Crisis and Stop Reckless Trading” slate.com/spitzer/…by eliotspitzer
- “Relationship between Sociology and Economics (and Political Science)” web.mit.edu/ewzisc… on cross-disciplinary citation patterns
- “Climate Science Predictions Prove Too Conservative”, by Glenn Scherer scientificamerican.com/ar…
- “Men are pervs, women are gold diggers” miratech.com/eye…

- “Let bad banks pay for financial literacy” marketwatch.com/db … via moorehn
- “Scientific consensus shifts public opinion on climate change” theconversation.edu.au/sc …
- “For Second Opinion, Consult a Computer?” nytimes.com/hea…
- “Saving Economics from the Economists” hbr.org/saving …
- “Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability?” papers.ssrn.com/so… (talk next week at hec.ca/finance/… )
- “Outta control political incorrectness” andrewgelman.com/out … (still on the “Man and the Economy” journal story) by StatModeling
- (in the U.S.) “Top 1% are 288 times richer than you!” hlntv.com/ar…
- “Americans’ life spans has reversed itself for white people who lack high school diplomas” nytimes.com/life …
- “opinions” dilbert.com/strips/… via BursteinVK
- “The Debtor Prisoner’s Dilemma” project-syndicate.org/com …
- “Rich People Still Don’t Realize They’re Rich” economix.blogs.nytimes.com/ch…
- “Referee Recommendations” papers.ssrn.com/sm …“typical referee report consists roughly of one part signal and two parts noise”
- “Changing colours and legends in lattice plots” on Markus’s great blog lamages.blogspot.fr/chan…
- “The population conundrum” by Norma Cohen ft.com/in…via tomroud
- nice discussion on wmbriggs.com/6804 by mattstat on a paper mentioned a few weeks ago on “regression and causation”
- “Business as usual in judging the worth of a researcher?” guardian.co.uk/ … “Modern science is all about evaluation these days….”
- “graduate students and networking” orgtheory.wordpress.com/gradu…
- “How to make NYT-style bar charts with R” blog.revolutionanalytics.com/t… via YvesMulkers
- “Can the VIX Signal Market Direction?” stat.wharton.upenn.edu/ste…
- “It’s Time to Fix America’s Email Exclamation Point Addiction!” theatlanticwire.com/tec…via mmgh Sophie_Gourion
- [free ebook] “An introduction to measure theory” by Terence Tao terrytao.files.wordpress.com/meas …
- “The Rhetoric of Economics” by Donald McCloskey, 1983, faculty.chicagobooth.edu/j…
- “Why I chose journalism over science” scilogs.com/why … by AkshatRathi
- “Americans are not getting any older, literally” medicaldaily.com/ … “Life expectancy in the United States has stagnated…”
- “How the Recession Improved Life Expectancy – but Didn’t Make Us Healthier” theatlantic.com/healt…
- “Introduction to Predictive Modeling in R” casact.org/educ … yes, the Casualty Actuarial Society recommends R…
- Text Analytics Yields Employee Sentiment Insights for HR Executives” data-informed.com/bl… on Data_Informed‘s blog
- “When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states” en.wikipedia.org/Will_Rogers…
- “A Free-Market Fix for the Copyright Racket” bloomberg.com/n …
- “targeting your audience and specifically tailoring outputs to policymakers is key to improving the impact of research” blogs.lse.ac.uk/impact…
- “Occupy gets into the debt market” salon.com/occup … “buy up and forgive thousands of dollars worth of debt is (….) pretty clever”
- “Occupy Is Buying Loans and Forgiving Debt” politix.topix.com/… “The People’s Bailout”
- “At most a third of us show a consistent approach to financial risk” web.mit.edu/ … and the AER paper pubs.aeaweb.org/d…
- “High-Speed Trades Hurt Investors, a Study Says” nytimes.com/busi … can’t find the study ? might still be papers.ssrn.com/so …
- “Financial Decision Making and Cognition in a Family Context” rand.org/pu…
et cette semaine, plusieurs articles en francais,
- “Comment fêter noël comme un économiste” blog.francetvinfo.fr/classe-eco/… les conseils de dernière minute de l’excellentissime adelaigue
- “Le droit à l’oubli sur Internet : une idée dangereuse” liberation.fr/soc … via mapav8
- “Et si vous aviez investi vos cotisations retraite dans le CAC40 ?” theoreme-du-bien-etre.ne…
- “Rendements boursiers et vieillissement de population” h16free.com/ … via tomroud
- “Cotisation sociale, sémantique patronale et sophisme journalistique” (en France) ragemag.fr/sem…
- “Évaluer l’enseignement des enseignants-chercheurs” rachelgliese.wordpress.com/ev…
- “le nombre de charges de cours a augmenté trois fois plus rapidement que le nombre de professeurs” à l’Université Laval lapresse.ca/le- …
- Aux Etats-Unis, “la bulle de la dette étudiante est en train d’exploser” la-chronique-agora.com/dett…
- “Pas de sirop d’érable dans mon camembert!” nouvelles.umontreal.ca/sci …
- “L’anatomie du blog scientifique 2. Le titre” metablog.hypotheses.org/223 par abou2twitt
- “La science n’a pas de don de voyance” lemonde.fr/sty …via malipaquin J_P_Boucher
Did I miss something ?