Lars P. Syll

 [embedded content] A great video, but — there’s always a but — unfortunately also not without some analytical shortcomings. The point of making a randomized experiment is often said to be that it ‘ensures’ that any correlation between a supposed cause and effect indicates a causal relation. This is believed to hold since randomization (allegedly) ensures that a supposed causal variable does not correlate with other variables that may influence the effect. The problem with...

 [embedded content] Filmer kan beröra oss på många olika sätt. Många är mest inget annat än rent tidsfördriv och eskapism. Men det finns också några — få — filmer som verkligen betyder något. De riktigt stora filmerna. De som på allvar tränger in under huden och skakar om oss i vårt innersta. Kjell-Åke Anderssons filmatisering av Göran Tunströms episka mästerverk Juloratoriet — med gudabenådad musik av Stefan Nilsson — är en sådan film. Med starka beröringspunkter till mitt...

 [embedded content] Roma fa sognare — come fa sognare questa bellissima canzone.

La storia siamo noi  [embedded content] Canzone poetica e profondamente autentica — e invecchia come un ottimo vino.

And now for another American moron …  [embedded content] Totally incredible. From under what stones do all these racist morons in the US come from? Maddening and saddening to see!

[embedded content]Today is Mother’s Day here in Sweden. This one is in loving memory of my mother Lisbeth. Although it is thirty-one years since she passed away, not a single day goes by without her in my mind. Those whom the Gods love die young. But in dreams, I can hear your name. And in dreams, We will meet again. When the seas and mountains fall And we come to end of days, In the dark I hear a call Calling me there I will go there And back again.

Men har de ovanstående exemplen något med regeringens krav på jämställdhetsintegrering att göra? Jo, förmodligen. Men det har, enligt Fredrik Bondestam på Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning, i alla fall inget med hans verksamhet att göra. Det var inte sekretariatet som pressade Lunds universitet att skohorna in Butler på den där kursen för att snygga till jämställdhetssiffrorna. Tvärtom är han kritisk till att så skedde, berättar han. Han är också tveksam till...

Microfoundations — neither law nor true Simon Wren-Lewis is one of many mainstream economists that staunchly defends the idea that having microfoundations for macroeconomics moves macroeconomics forward. A couple of years ago he wrote this: I think the two most important microfoundation led innovations in macro have been intertemporal consumption and rational expectations …  [T]he adoption of rational expectations was not the result of some previous...

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