Economic
and Game Theory
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Nemmers Conference:
You can see the presentations at the excellent Nemmers Conference held at Northwestern to celebrate the award of the Nemmers Prize to Ariel Rubinstein.
[Posted at 05/12/2005 06:25 PM by David K. Levine 
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Theoretical Economics:
A new very serious open access journal in economic theory. We aim to become the best specialty journal in economic theory.
[Posted at 03/31/2005 05:24 PM by David K. Levine ]
Spanish overview of Boldrin and Levine on Intellectual Property:
Courtesy of Juan Dubra and his students. The article is here.
[Posted at 02/14/2005 06:24 PM by David K. Levine ]
In Memoriam Gerard Debreu:
Dec 31, 2004.
[Posted at 01/22/2005 08:10 AM by David K. Levine ]It's Not Rush Limbaugh:
But if you want to learn about game theory, check out The Leonard Lopate Show's "Games People Play" with Steven Brams a political scientist at NYU and me. The Real Player audio stream is here.
[Posted at 01/14/2005 03:57 PM by David K. Levine ]
Finnish Economic Papers:
Focused on small economies and published in English, Finnish Economic Papers is open access, online and publishes papers by well known non-Finnish authors as well as Finnish authors. It is refereed, published twice a year, and run by three societies: the Finnish Society for Economic Research (founded 1936), the Finnish Economic Association (founded 1884) and the Economic Society of Finland (founded 1894).
[Posted at 12/01/2004 03:21 PM by David K. Levine ]
Directory of Open Access Journals:
A list of open access journals in economics.
[Posted at 12/01/2004 03:17 PM by David K. Levine ]
Has Disney bought the courts along with congress:
Updated Tuesday October 25: An essay on Mickey Mouse and the economics of retroactive copyright.
[Posted at 10/14/2004 10:47 AM by David K. Levine ]
Ed Prescott and Finn Kydland
"for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles;" I would have said: for instituting intellectual discipline and remaking modern macroeconomics into the form it has today. More information about Kydland and Prescott's work. Here are Matthias Doepke's pictures from the party at the Minneapolis fed. Here's a picture of Ed and Finn with the President.
[Posted at 10/11/2004 06:53 AM by David K. Levine ]
In Memoriam Scott Freeman:
June 9, 1954 - July 23, 2004. Memories of Scott.
[Posted at 09/12/2004 04:05 PM by David K. Levine ]
