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	<title>Some Quick Notes</title>
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		<title>Acemoglu&#8217;s Dynamic Framework for Institution Analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Gonzalo Rivero showed me that Acemoglu uploads all his lecture notes to his webpage. The slides are condensed but intelligible, and sometimes you come across small useful tools. Just like this &#8220;dynamical framework&#8221; to analyze how does the influence of (political) institutions operate over the economic performance and the (in)equality: Take North&#8217;s definition of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jorgegalindo.es/blog/2011/10/11/acemoglus-dynamic-framework-for-institution-analysis/</link>
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		<title>And the Nobel goes to&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Sargent, NYU (Wikipedia) and Christopher Sims, Princeton (Wikipedia). Macroeconomists, with a rather technical approach&#8230; but working on a topic that, somehow, underlies the whole news flow about the World economic crisis. The press release from the Royal Swedish Academy explains it quite well, actually. They even use some funny comics: We might call this approach &#8220;Inceptiononmics&#8220;. Or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jorgegalindo.es/blog/2011/10/10/and-the-nobel-goes-to/</link>
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		<title>Sachs loves it harder, better, faster, stronger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Sachs is the economics profession’s leading advocate of mega-reform. Whether it is stabilization of hyperinflation in Bolivia, shock therapy to leap from Communism to capitalism in Poland and Russia, or a “Big Push” to end world poverty, Sachs’ recommendation throughout his career has been to do it fast, do it big, do it comprehensively, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jorgegalindo.es/blog/2011/10/09/sachs-loves-it-harder-better-faster-stronger/</link>
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		<title>The World as a Huge Information Imperfection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Essentially, the capitalist economy is seen as a construct of imperfectly informed individuals, imperfectly coordinated through the market place. It is far from parody to claim that because more or less any outcome can be explained in principle on this basis &#8211; the real world is after all an information-theoretic market imperfection &#8211; it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jorgegalindo.es/blog/2011/10/07/the-world-as-a-huge-information-imperfection/</link>
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		<title>We (Europe) are the accident in History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And now Asia is striking back.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jorgegalindo.es/blog/2011/10/06/we-europe-are-the-accident-in-history/</link>
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