Posts from — December 2006

• BBC - Radio 4 In Our Time - Science Archive
  Archive of ‘in our time’ science program
  (tags: bbc history links math maths research science search podcast audio radio)
• TextMate Blog » Tutorials and Cheat Sheets
  (tags: apple cheatsheet design development howto mac misc osx)
• HAinnovations
  policy

I’ll be posting lots of summaries of writing guides over the next few days as I get through them. Here’s the first, and maybe the best of the lot.

After the jump you’ll find my notes on Economical Writing, a brilliant book by Prof. Deirdre N. McCloskey I recommend every student of economics go out and buy a copy, quicksmart. Here’s a .pdf of the notes after the jump if you want to print them out.
Economical Writing by Deirdre McCloskey.pdf

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• Medical Statistics on the Internet
  Great Resource for Health Economics
  (tags: Health Data)
• A Medical Statisitics Course
  Interesting, though very incomplete
  (tags: tutorial Health)
• Statistics in Medicine
  Medical Stats Journal
  (tags: Health Journals)
• Logarithm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Nice Definition of Logarithm
  (tags: math mathematics maths LogDocPaper)
• Logarithm in Mathematica’s Function Library
  Full Exposition of Logarithm in Mathematica
  (tags: mathematica Logs+Docs)

• Monetary Economist
  (tags: Intl+Monetary+ecs)
• Monetary Economics
  (tags: intl+monetary+ecs)
• Monetary Economics Homepage
  (tags: intl+monetary+ecs)
• Monetary economics: Datasources
  (tags: intl+monetary+ecs)
• Monetary economics: Publications access internet
  (tags: intl+monetary+ecs)
• Barry Eichengreen - What’s New
  (tags: intl+monetary+ecs)

• The ECB’s Two Pillars - A Success
  The ECB’s Two Pillars - A Success
  (tags: EC4333 Readings)

• Gian-Carlo Rota
  Excellent Resource on History of Mathematics
  (tags: Interestingpeople)

Right Click the link below and choose ’save target as’ to download the answers.

[Download EC4333_PS3_Ans.pdf]

Right click the file to download the marks for the continual assessment part of this course.

[Download EC4333_Final_Grades_All.pdf]

• View Quotes
  Beautiful Maths Quotes.
  (tags: Research)
• About Stanislaw Ulam

Right click to download the .pdf of this short lecture.
[Download EC4333_Lecture10_Recap_handout.pdf]

right click the link below to download the .pdf.
[Download EC6101_Lecture6_UE.pdf]

• SSRN Author Page for Manfred Gartner
  interesting monetary economist, nice paper
  (tags: Teaching,)
• Point, Counterpoint
  (tags: inequality)
• FT.com / World / International economy - Richest 2% hold half the world’s assets
  2% own 50%. Wow.
  (tags: news Reference EC4333)

Right click the link below and choose ’save target as’.

[Download EC6101_Lecture_5_PPP_handout.pdf]

Right click the link below and choose ’save target as’

[Download EC6101_lecture4_open_ec_macro.pdf]

• pakko.pdf (application/pdf Object)
  Burgernomics, good article on PPP for EC6101 students
  (tags: EC4333 EC6101, Economic economics UL,)

This is a 5 hour lecture, here are the 80+ slides for it. Watch the entire (gasp) lecture as a movie by clicking the picture below

or, more realistically, right click the link below and choose ’save target as’.

[Download Irish_Ec_Environment_Lecture1_Handout_Slides.pdf]

• EUROPA - Eurostat - Data Navigation Tree
  Data on Inequality Measures for the EU
  (tags: EC4333 Readings)
• Eurofound: Info for indicator - Inequality of income distribution
  How inequality estimators are made in the EU
  (tags: EC4333 Readings)
• CSO - Releases and Publicaitons: Measuring Ireland’s Progress, 2004
  Data for Tables used in Irish Economic Environment, EC3601
  (tags: EC3601 Readings)

Here are the notes I’ll distribute in class.

[Download EC3601_Irish_Ec_Environment_CoursePack_06-1.pdf]

[Download EC4333_Lecture_9_Inequality_Handout.pdf]

• Kansas Outlaws Practice Of Evolution | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
  (tags: Readings webstupidity Thought,)
• Word Press Theme viewer
  Themes by Ronan Menton
  (tags: wordpress)
• European Commission - Growth and Jobs - Time to move up a gear
  EU Website on Competition Policy and Inequality
  (tags: EC4333 Readings)
• Employment and Social Affairs - Social Inclusion
  EU body with Special Responsibility for Poverty Alleviation in EU
  (tags: EC4333 Readings)