Over the last couple of months for the purpose of my research on happiness/subjective-well-being I’ve been putting together some notes on theories of contextual judgement. The first part of these is now in a form suitable for public consumption and I’ve posted them at:
http://www.rufuspollock.org/economics/notes/theories-of-contextual-judgement/
7/10. A good story and an excellent performance in the leading role combine to make this recent Italian drama a very watchable piece.
5.5/10. Not uninteresting and really quite funny in places. However, while certainly better than some of Leigh’s other recent outings, it was rather intermittent and never became more than a mildly diverting ramble around Poppy’s life.
Following on from the third workshop a month ago, yesterday saw the third in the series of “Workshops on Well-being” take place at the LSE. This time the presentations were given by Mat White of Plymouth University and Andrew Steptoe of UCL. Below are some (very) impressionistic notes.
Presentation by Mat White [...]6.5/10. Interesting and unusual, though slightly conventionalized in its last 15 minutes. At last we have Ralph Fiennes playing an appropriately nasty character — I can never understand why he ends up in so many ‘romantic’ roles for his froideur and general demeanour make him entirely unsuited.
Several years ago I read Michael Kremer’s article entitled “Randomized Evaluations of Educational Programs in Developing Countries: Some Lessons” in the 2003 AER Papers and Proceedings issue ([jstor link]( http://www.jstor.org/stable/view/3132208?seq=3)). This brief article reviewed some of the recent results of evaluating the effects of various different programs on educational outcomes in the developing world. [...]
Last year I collated and distilled the notes and summaries accumulated over the PhD into a proper paper which could act as the literature review in my dissertation. While I submitted the PhD last August I’ve only just got around to posting this up and it can now be found at:
http://www.rufuspollock.org/economics/papers/economics_of_knowledge_review.pdf
From the [...]
8/10. It’s hard to write good feel-good novels and this is one of them — beautifully done.
7/10. Cannibalism and the Common Law: The Story of the Tragic Last Voyage of the Mignonette and the Strange Legal Proceedings to Which It Gave Rise by A Simpson, University of Chicago Press, 1984. More history than legal analysis. Interesting throughout but meandering slightly towards the end. One quote I wish to memorialize, which though [...]
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