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Written By: The Homo Economicus on March 18, 2009 No Comment
Signs and Signals…

I’m not a native English speaker (as many of you that read my grammatical mistakes in this blog from time to time might notice), but I think I can explain the difference between Signs and Signals and what do I mean when I mention those in this post.

While Signs is what you probably already know [...]

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Written By: The Homo Economicus on March 12, 2009 No Comment
Changing preferences…

Most of consumer’s theory in Economics is based on – guess what – consumption. How do people make their consumption decisions? What if the price of one good increases or if suddenly you have more income or an increase in your salary?

Of course, all these questions depend on one’s preferences. Each one of us have [...]

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Written By: The Homo Economicus on March 12, 2009 4 Comments

Hi all! There has been many people lately interested in the “Chomsky” series of the blog.I’m happy that people is enjoying them. For the new readers, please come back! I can’t promise more Chomsky, but I can promise some more interesting economic posts…

Blogaboutnothing.net got cited in the well-known South-African blog “It’s Almost Supernatural“. [...]

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Written By: The Homo Economicus on March 9, 2009 7 Comments

Prof. Chomsky replied immediately (at about 4am) to my latest email:

I will keep to the two contributions I discussed, Gendzier’s and mine.  If you have objections to the others, contact the authors.

Recall your charge: “the panel “DID NOT contribute to find solutions for peace, but rather lacked of any academic spirit of discussion [...]

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Written By: The Homo Economicus on March 8, 2009 1 Comment

Prof. Chomsky replied to my last email published in a previous post.

This is his (very long) answer:

I will return to your letter below, but first would like to bring up your general charge, and the one that is most important to me: namely, that the panel “DID NOT contribute to find solutions for peace, [...]

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Written By: The Homo Economicus on March 7, 2009 No Comment

The famous saying in Spanish says: “New House, New Life!”…

The Blog About Nothing just changed its image!

I hope you all like it!

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Written By: The Homo Economicus on March 6, 2009 2 Comments

This is a blog about nothing. Not about politics or the Arab-Israeli conflict. But since I posted already two posts about my conversation with Prof. Noam Chomsky, let me update you on that. After Prof. Chomsky replied in the last post, I replied the following:

Thank you Prof. Chomsky for taking some time to [...]

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Written By: The Homo Economicus on March 4, 2009 No Comment

Yes, Prof. Chomsky replied. But before I copy his answer (as promised) I would like to address one comment of a reader in the previous post. Rachel Fierstein commented the following in the “Dear Prof. Chomsky…” post:

I attended the same event and just re-watched it. The moderator said the organizers attempted to make [...]

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Written By: The Homo Economicus on March 4, 2009 2 Comments

In the Microeconomics Summer School of the Hebrew University in June 2008, Prof. Kenneth Arrow – in his last address as the Summer School Director – gave to the participants (me among them) an advise for their academic life: If you find a result while doing research you should always think that you did something [...]

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