John Barrdear » Meta http://barrdear.com/john Thoughts about economics, politics and life in general Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:30:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Updating http://barrdear.com/john/2011/07/05/updating/ http://barrdear.com/john/2011/07/05/updating/#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:36:25 +0000 John Barrdear http://barrdear.com/john/?p=1223 I’ve updated the blog to version 3.2 of WordPress (the fullscreen editing of posts is nice).  Hopefully there’ll be no problems …

]]> http://barrdear.com/john/2011/07/05/updating/feed/ 3 “The writing style is academic and upset most of the time.” http://barrdear.com/john/2010/09/14/the-writing-style-is-academic-and-upset-most-of-the-time/ http://barrdear.com/john/2010/09/14/the-writing-style-is-academic-and-upset-most-of-the-time/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:51:06 +0000 John Barrdear http://barrdear.com/john/?p=1124 *sniff*

Then again, Urlai also thinks that I’m over 66 years old.

]]> http://barrdear.com/john/2010/09/14/the-writing-style-is-academic-and-upset-most-of-the-time/feed/ 3 Is Paul Krugman nine times as interesting as sex? http://barrdear.com/john/2010/09/02/is-paul-krugman-nine-times-as-interesting-as-sex/ http://barrdear.com/john/2010/09/02/is-paul-krugman-nine-times-as-interesting-as-sex/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:54:42 +0000 John Barrdear http://barrdear.com/john/?p=1103 My brother, who clearly has too much spare time on his hands, was yesterday browsing through my Archive page when he discovered that I have published 18 posts that refer to ‘Paul Krugman‘ in some way, but only two posts that refer to ‘sex‘.  This, he proposed, suggested either an unhealthy attachment to Professor Krugman, or a most disappointing detachment from fornication.

The present post brings the ratio from a lofty 9:1 down to only 6.3:1, but I fear it may still be too high!  Clearly a flood of pornographic material is called for …

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]]> http://barrdear.com/john/2010/08/17/upgrades-upgrades/feed/ 0 Please excuse the mess … http://barrdear.com/john/2009/08/27/please-excuse-the-mess/ http://barrdear.com/john/2009/08/27/please-excuse-the-mess/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:59:53 +0000 John Barrdear http://barrdear.com/john/?p=717 I’m playing with my themes.

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Also, a search on google for “fiscal multiplier” puts me at number two at the moment.  I have no idea why.

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Anyway, I’ve just installed Twitter Tools so that my Twitter account will get an update when I post a new entry here on my blog.

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Thoma hit

(Side Note:  I’ve alway’s liked Economist’s View.  Mark provides a truely terrifying aggregation of econo-blogo-thought.)

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Every post and page now has a link at the top that takes you to the printer-friendly version of that post or page.  If you live-and-die by the URI bar, it’s the usual address with “/print/” at the end.

Let me know if you have any problems.

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$$P_{it}^{\ast }=\left( \frac{\gamma }{\gamma -1}\right) ce^{s_{it}}$$

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