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Alberto Alesina

Notes from his memorial service on Saturday, May 30. “My only task was to read him his email once a day.”RA. Shleifer. Alesina didn’t care about he theory, or the statistics– he cared about the truth. Note: thsi si contrary to the idea that we are too mathy in economics these days. He ws good […]

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Typos

This is a stub. We need more typos. Typos add indivdiuality to writing style. We have too few people whose letters show their personalities like Admiral John Fisher’s. He did not have typos, I think, but the effect is similar. Back in 1912, Fisher was using 2012’s teenager abbreviation, though not in too impious a […]