… and since I finished my marking today, here are The Simpsons and PHD Comics on the typical graduate student’s lot in life in May and June:
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:
- My LSE site
- Google Buzz
- Gallery (rarely updated)
- MySpace (almost never used)
- Linked in (almost never used)
- Orkut (almost never used)
Recent Tweets
- @Bill_Gross Nit pick: They're interpreters. Translators focus on documents, interpreters on the spoken word. Yes, they're incredible. :) : 1 day ago
- Get rid of quackery from our universities! http://t.co/G3SLLpPb It's embarrassing that we ever offered these at public institutions. : 1 day ago
- @felixsalmon In case you're interested: Terrible news from Apple (AAPL): http://t.co/YFLeQLGb : 1 day ago
- Terrible news from Apple (AAPL): http://t.co/YFLeQLGb #fb : 1 day ago
- The single most useless coffee on the planet: a skinny white decaff americano. Why? Why?! #fb : 1 day ago
- Just completed a 6.82 km run with @RunKeeper. Check it out! http://t.co/dPJRdupW #RunKeeper : 1 day ago
- @Ed_Miliband in the Guardian: "I have a cunning plan!" Sorry, Ed. If you need to tell me you have one, you don't have one. #fb : 2 weeks ago
- Death to toilet seats that won't stay up! #fb : 4 weeks ago
Recent Posts
- Terrible news from Apple (AAPL)
- Currys/Dixons/PC World/Phones4U fail
- Today’s community service announcement …
- It’s not a fiscal union and Cameron didn’t veto it
- Policy options for the Euro area [Updated]
- On the limits of QE at the Zero Lower Bound
- For the first time since 2004q4, US household debt is less than 100% of disposable income
- A simple proposal to improve fiscal policy
- To what extent should the media mention that somebody is from a minority?
- The US debt-ceiling deal
- Updating
- Wanted: CTRL-TAB in my browser to work as ALT-TAB does in windows
- Bitcoin
- A taxonomy of aggregate output (Actual, Forecast, Natural, Potential, Efficient)
- Cars as mobile battery packs for hire
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.)
- David Altig (FRB Atlanta)
- David Beckworth (Texas State 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.)
- Scott Sumner (Bentley U.)
- Steve Waldman (PhD candidate – U. of Kentucky)
- Steven Levitt (U. Chicago)
- Tim Duy (U. Oregon)
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