1. Keneth Sokoloff passed away this week. Every scholar and researcher interested in Latin America, and more concretely, interested in why the region is where it is right now, should read some of his articles. He gives interesting ideas about all of these. Especially this ((gated though!):
Engerman, S. L. y K. L. Sokoloff. 1997. “Factor Endowments, Institutions and Differential Paths of Growth Among New World Economies: A View From Economic Historians of the United States”2. When we were at the university and we read a lot of things about people we never saw, like Stiglitz, Lucas, North,... and many others it was quite disappointing! I always wondered how they looked alike. I even remember asking one friend who was heading towards the university of Chicago to send me pictures of some of them. Internet helped me with this! Now you can also see them moving! Wanna see Acemoglu talking about the rise and fall of nations?
3. Music suggestion: for those of you who love 70's R'N'R -ac/dc (with Bon Scott, of course), Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath- then you should listen to this Australian power trio "Wolfmother". This saturday they play in Barcelona. I was really tired of listening to death bands!
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