Innovation comes from trying things at the edge. I have always been someone who wants to try things out, often by “breaking” rules or at least tradition – such as currently teaching a course at UiO and BI at the same time, mixing the students. The students love it (and have asked ...
The way I got into being a China expert, I think, is different from a lot of other people that I know who do similar things. A lot of the people that I’ve met over the years who do the kind of thing that I do, they got into China-related careers because they had some kind ...
Other things equal, an increase in the number of "encouraged workers" will: a) create jobs. b) lower the participation rate. c) decrease the size of the labor force. d) increase the measured unemployment rate. One cause of compensating wage differential is: a. the effe...
These dynamic results are particularly powerful because they do not require an a priori assumption that the auction will reach equilibrium — for example, assuming only that 1While Vickrey was the first to discover the second-price auction in the economics literature, it has been used in practice...
A systems approach to creating change is also built on the assumption that everyone in the system has equal power and status.But the food system is not an equal one.There have been calls for a World Food and Nutrition Organization,so that legally binding policies can be appli...
A systems approach to creating change is also built on the assumption that everyone in the system has equal power.But as some researchers find,the food system is not an equal one.A good way to redress (修正 ) such power imbalance is for more universities to ...
Two things I’ll say about Cortney Casey that will defy challenge by any rational mortal: First, she has a smile of such ebullient candor that it lights up an already well-lit tasting room, and second, she knows how to pour wine for a critic. For the most part, a key component of ...
But then a good epigrammatist won't let us wriggle easily off the hook of a quick assumption: Brevity is the soul of lingerie. — Dorothy Parker The great epigrammatists will invariably do one of two things: they will either amuse and bemuse us into wisdom, or they will scathe us into...
The writing process was not the usual, it was like the show, not linear, the things I would write would be added in during the rehearsal process, during some of the more philosophical moments so that there was something more textual for them to connect to if they needed to. Those pieces...
Assume there are two basic goods produced in a nation, consumer goods and capital goods. The production possibilities graph for these two goods is bowed out from the origin. This reason for this shape of the graph is because of: A. the...