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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 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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Written By: The Homo Economicus on October 18, 2008 1 Comment

This is a commercial of the 013 Barak Telecommunications company in Israel. I hope you will enjoy it as I did.

PS: The subtitles at the very end mean: “In real life, this is still not possible. But over the internet, links like these are created on a daily basis”.

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