Lars P. Syll

Friskolefusket — nu får det vara nog! Swedish school system has somewhat oddly combined market principles such as decentralization, choice, competition, and corporate providers with an evaluation system that is highly trust-based and where teacher-set school grades are high-stakes for the students. This means that both students and schools have incentives to game a system that is easy to game and the findings suggest that the integrity of the evaluation...

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But once, we were here … .[embedded content]In loving memory of my brother, Peter ‘Uncas’ Pålsson.

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The irrelevance of the Ramsey growth model So in what sense is this “dynamic stochastic general equilibrium” model firmly grounded in the principles of economic theory? I do not want to be misunderstood. Friends have reminded me that much of the effort of “modern macro” goes into the incorporation of important deviations from the Panglossian assumptions that underlie the simplistic application of the Ramsey model to positive macroeconomics. Research focuses...

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The Grace of Undómiel .[embedded content] This one is for all my brothers and sisters in Ukraine, fighting oppression and risking your lives on your long walk to freedom. May God be with you. Never give in. Never give up.

The soft bigotry of low expectations There is much rumbling about the likelihood that the Supreme Court will deal a coup de grâce to racial preferences in university admissions when it takes up two cases, probably in its next term, challenging affirmative action policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill … But I find myself thinking about … how we’ve allowed ourselves to all but give up on the idea that many Black and...

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