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About me
I'm an economics grad student at the London School of Economics. I'm Australian, but have lived in the UK for quite a few years now.
My other web presences:
Recent Posts
- Double-yolk eggs, clustering and the financial crisis
- Note to self: holidaying in Greece will soon be cheap
- Party discipline in the Republican Party
- The dude at Macquarie …
- Today’s must read: Russian economic development, as seen through McDonalds
- People are not rational maximisers of von Neumann-Morgenstern utility
- A blast from the past
- Doris
- Obama’s (i.e. The Volcker) bank plan
- High Fidelity, Empire Records
- Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
- Clues they missed
- Wanted: A measure of semantic correlation
- W4nkr
- Auto-appendectomy: the removal of one’s own appendix
Recent Comments
- Party discipline in the Republican Party (1)
- cam: John, I think it was Labor’s pledge in the early 1900s that led Australia to be that way. When Labor won...
- Regulation should set information free (1)
- pendumb: кузнецк секс загипнотизированные порно zoofil porno порно зоо клип девушка секс icq галерея порно юбки порно...
- Epistemology in the social sciences (economics included) (1)
- Adam: Just saw this bit about bipolar disorder in children being almost exclusively a 21st century American...
- What were Hoon and Hewitt thinking? (4)
- John Barrdear: Okay, that’s a fair point.
- Adam: You are thinking of it from the perspective of either the potential leader or the party as a whole. If you view...
- John Barrdear: But why prefer a small loss over a large one when the end result — you no longer form government...
- Becoming British (3)
- Adam: But have you passed your queuing and whinging tests yet?
- John Barrdear: The British Home Office officially says that 95% are completed within six months, but the person who...
- cam: I have in my bag the US naturalization papers. I am completing them as I get time. How [changed from 'Who' -...
Recent Trackbacks
- John Barrdear: Obama’s (i.e. The Volcker) bank plan
- John Barrdear: Obama’s (i.e. The Volcker) bank plan
- John Barrdear: More on the US bank tax
- red piano: red piano...
- John Barrdear: On interest rates
Economics (Academic)
- Alex Tabarrok & Tyler Cowen (George Mason U.)
- Andrew Leigh (Aust. National U.)
- Arnold Kling & Bryan Caplan (George Mason U.)
- Brad DeLong (U.C. Berkeley)
- Chris Blattman (Yale U.)
- Dani Rodrik (Harvard U.)
- Gary Becker & Richard Posner (U. Chicago)
- Greg Mankiw (Harvard U.)
- James Hamilton (U.C. San Diego) & Menzie Chinn (U. of Wisconsin)
- John Quiggin (U. Queensland)
- Joshua Gans (U. Melbourne)
- Justin Wolfers (U. of Pennsylvania)
- Mark Thoma (U. Oregon)
- Paul Krugman (Princeton U.)
- Robin Hanson (George Mason U.)
- Steve Waldman (PhD candidate – U. of Kentucky)
- Steven Levitt (U. Chicago)
Economics (Other)
News (Australia)
News (General)
News (UK)
Politics (Other)
Statistics
Recent tweets
- This [ http://bit.ly/dwyXbM ] is freakin' hilarious. I love watching US politics. 3 days ago
- @dan_munz Dude. You're using Lotus Notes? Please tell me someone else is forcing you to do so. in reply to dan_munz 3 days ago
- Ok. #iTampon is crazy funny. 1 week ago
- I'm just not that excited by an Apple Tablet. 1 week ago
- Hmmm. My "economists" list and my feed in general is perpetually dominated by @MarkThoma ... How does he find the time? 1 week ago
- More updates...

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