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Anything that Interests Me! - How to learn Econometrics 2

Anything that Interests Me! - How to learn Econometrics 2My friend DF replied to my earlier post on How to Learn Econometrics, and he came up with very good arguments and analysis on how I did not do a...

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Anything that interests me! Some excerpts from the Melian dialogue

Anything that interests me! Some excerpts from the Melian dialogueWell, I once read the Melian dialogue in a newspaper (and yes, it was the Straits Times) and it was very interesting. I promptly left...

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Nice stories I just want to share

Anything that interests me: Nice stories I just want to shareWith the world in recession plus a whole host of negative things around us (fires in Thailand clubs, dead Singaporeans and live terrorists,...

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The Current GFC - Global Financial Crisis

The Current GFC - Global Financial CrisisNo, I am not going to talk about the GFC to explain it to people. That's not the point of this post. The point of this post is about themes. And the...

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Anything that interests me - Against Holy Blood, Holy Grail

Anything that interests me - Against Holy Blood, Holy Grailand all that crap...When I was in the military, we used to have some time off for ourselves known as "nights off". That meant that you could...

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Anything that interests me - Cyril Takayama

Anything that interests me - Cyril TakayamaAnybody who knows me well would probably know that I have an interest in magic, and in particular, mentalism. Normally that'd be absolutely true - as I do...

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Anything that interests me - Behavioural Economics

Anything that interests me - Behavioural EconomicsI am back! Technically, I am supposed to be studying for my last two papers, but I've decided (rationally) that I should not put in lots of effort and...

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How to Get First Class Honours in Economics at NUS

How to Get First Class Honours in Economics at NUSI am so, so, so very glad that I got my first class honours and can finally graduate from NUS. It has been a very good experience in terms of meeting...

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Tyler Cowen's Make Him Fight Dragons Applied

Tyler Cowen's Make Him Fight Dragons AppliedOK, I have been meaning to write (I mean "right") this for a long time. I had a talk with an acquaintance - I mean, friend - of mine and she had told me...

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Roger Backhouse's Penguin History of Economics

Roger Backhouse's ThePenguin History of EconomicsI have just finished reading this book, The Penguin History of Economics, and found that it was a very well written and interesting book on economic...

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Are you in the USP? Do you study History or Economics at NUS?

Are you in the USP? Do you study History or Economics at NUS?Are you a freshman/ freshie?This post is for you :)Q and AI usually write to the people who ask me for advice or write on my comment...

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Anything that interests me! - Thank You Note

Anything that interests me! - Thank You NoteI have been meaning to write this for quite some time already, but I have been procrastinating. After all, I have so many things to do - I'm currently...

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Anything that interests me! - Talent Is Overrated, by Geoffrey Colvin

I happened to be waiting for someone a few weeks ago, when I was still in Singapore. It was a long wait (she was late) and so I decided to spend some time in the bookstore nearby (I think it was...

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A Gem From Youtube

Recently, I have taken to listening to more Classical and Romantic music pieces, rather than pursuing my apparently "one track listening habit" (Fong) of listening solely to Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in...

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Anything that interests me! - Infatuation with Handel (Haendel)

Anything that interests me! - Infatuation with Handel (Haendel)I'm supposed to be writing about the New Institutional Economics and thinking of various private-order institutions and stuff along those...

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An Example from IPPT on How to Get First Class Honours in Economics

An Example from IPPT on How to Get First Class Honours in EconomicsAlright, today I am going to write about an example from IPPT, on how to get first class honours in economics, or for that matter, how...

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Anything that interests me: Short Reflections on Acts of Insight

I'm supposed to be gearing up to present my thoughts on the New Institutional Economics and reputation mechanisms (in historical institutional analysis) tomorrow to my thesis supervisor, but here I am...

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A Quick Note on How To Read Anything that Interests Me!

A Quick Note on How To Read Anything that Interests Me! I have had some comments sent to me via facebook, some via email, and some have tagged on my board, and for the next few months I encourage...

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Anything that interests me! The Dilbert and Peter Principles

Anything that interests me! The Dilbert and Peter PrinciplesI have been looking through my old blog posts and have discovered that I have written on quite a variety of subjects, far beyond my...

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Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis...

As promised, here I am blogging once again. I'll take this as an opportunity to share some of the strange things floating around in my head, as well as some rare nuggets of information or knowledge...

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