Tag Archives: Varia

.[embedded content] I loved this song when I first heard it twenty years ago. I still do.

Yours truly is helping to prepare our youngest daughter with mathematics for her Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (Högskoleprovet) in a few weeks, and recommended this excellently pedagogical presentation on how to solve problems related to circular permutations: [embedded content]

Sten Broman läxar upp språkmarodörer .[embedded content]

Concert for George (personal) .[embedded content] One of the greatest concerts of all time. With tears in my eyes, I notice that it still after more than twenty years takes my breath away. George Harrison (1943-2001). R.I.P.

Yours truly — ett porträtt Lars Syll har en blogg som läses av många runtom i världen och är även aktiv på Twitter, två anledningar bakom hans placering på listan bland världens mest inflytelserika ekonomer. På bloggen växlar han mellan att skriva på de fem språk han kan, svenska, franska, tyska, italienska och engelska och beskriver sig själv som en renässansmänniska som vill nå ut med flera budskap … — Som akademiker har vi tre uppgifter, att undervisa,...

But once, we were here … .[embedded content] One of the greatest movie scenes ever. Both the movie and soundtrack of this magnificent classic are epic. [embedded content] In loving memory of my brother, Peter ‘Uncas’ Pålsson.

Like Arvo Pärt’s music, Ola Gjeilo’s gives a sense of connecting with a world beyond the world. O Magnum Mysterium, with its choral textures shifting between unison singing, polyphony, and homophony, manages to convey the profound serene beauty and mystery of our human existence. Gjeilo’s masterpiece has been recorded dozens of times. This is the greatest of them all: [embedded content]

Why not all economists like yours truly Yesterday, one of my economics students amused herself by asking a famous AI chatbot “Why not all economists like Lars Syll” and got this — I guess pretty accurate — response … Professor Lars Pålsson Syll is a vocal critic of mainstream economics and advocates for pluralism in economic thinking. Overall, Lars Syll is recognized as a prominent figure in the realm of heterodox economics and critical inquiry into the...

You’ve got a friend .[embedded content] In loving memory of Bengt Nilsson — a friend non plus ultra. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you

.[embedded content] Listening to the choral music on Armonico Consort’s Naked Byrd Two anthology is an unending delight. One of my favourite albums.