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		<title>Was India&#8217;s 2003-08 growth phase a fundamental driven boom or debt-led cyclical boom?</title>
		<link>http://mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/was-indias-2003-08-growth-phase-a-fundamental-driven-boom-or-debt-led-cyclical-boom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 17:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amol Agrawal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As India&#8217;s growth story has bitten the dust, experts have started looking at other reasons. Some question India&#8217;s growth story  and others call it a temporary slowdown. A bigger question is whether 2003-08 growth story was indeed true or too good to be true. I have always questioned the story no matter what experts say. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1042553&#038;post=12261&#038;subd=mostlyeconomics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urbanization in the United States, 1800-2000</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 16:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amol Agrawal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A brilliant paper on the subject which also tells you so much about how US developed apart from its main focus on urbanisation. It is by Leah Platt Boustan, Devin Bunten, Owen Hearey (all three at UCLA). This handbook chapter seeks to document the economic forces that led the US to become an urban nation over its two hundred [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1042553&#038;post=12259&#038;subd=mostlyeconomics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the &#8216;System&#8217; in the International Monetary System</title>
		<link>http://mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/putting-the-system-in-the-international-monetary-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 12:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amol Agrawal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A super paper by super econ historians - Michael D. Bordo and Angela Redish. They track how this so called international monetary system became a system involving very complex ideas and coordination: The international gold standard of the late nineteenth century has been described as a system of ‘spontaneous order’, capturing the idea that its architects at the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1042553&#038;post=12256&#038;subd=mostlyeconomics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why IPL keeps failing people (Just like Why nations fail?)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amol Agrawal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is amazing how IPL bandwagon keeps rolling despite new crisis every year. IPL itself leads to many interesting economic lessons (like auctions, game theory, portfolio management etc. I have written few pieces on both &#8211; previous crisis in IPL and applying economic lessons to IPL (and vice-versa). However time has come now to set things really right. The recent [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1042553&#038;post=12251&#038;subd=mostlyeconomics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How China Became Capitalist..</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 17:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amol Agrawal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nice essay by 100 plus Ronald Coase (and Ning Wang) . It is based on his book by the same name. No one foresaw that the “socialist modernization” that the post-Mao Chinese government launched would in 30 years turn into what scholars today have called China’s great economic transformation. How the actions of Chinese [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1042553&#038;post=12249&#038;subd=mostlyeconomics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving to more of historical analysis post Rogoff-Reinhart disaster&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amol Agrawal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reinhart-Rogoff controversy continues to rage and shock econs. However, most pieces debate the research findings and very few give a solution for econ research. Barry Eichengreen says the need of the hour is not more stats and sophistication, but descriptive historical analysis : What is needed is not more sophisticated statistical methods, but serious historical [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1042553&#038;post=12246&#038;subd=mostlyeconomics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did the Metro help reduce air pollution in Delhi?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amol Agrawal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deepti Goel of DSE (a dear friend) and Sonam Gupta of Univ of Florida have been doing research on this very important topic. They share the findings in Mint&#8217;s column: To summarize, preliminary evidence points towards a reduction in the levels of nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide. Given that both nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide are important vehicular [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1042553&#038;post=12242&#038;subd=mostlyeconomics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Uses of Biography and the History of Economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amol Agrawal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nice paper on history of economic thought by Susan Howson of Univ of Toronto.  The paper mainly covers her approach towards writing bio of Lionel Robbins. However, in the process it shares insights on how biographies help understand history of economics better: I was asked to speak at this year&#8217;s [2012] HETSA meetings because [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1042553&#038;post=12239&#038;subd=mostlyeconomics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Honeybee Economics &#8211; Implications for Ecology Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amol Agrawal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a brilliant paper by Vesa Kanniainen of University of Helsinki, Tuula Lehtonen  of Finnish Beekeepers&#8217; Association and Ilkka Mellin  of Aalto University. It tells you about so many things about economics using honeybees and their activity at the centre. It tells you about economic systems, leadership, externalities (positive ones), work ethics and what not: For thousands of years, humans [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1042553&#038;post=12237&#038;subd=mostlyeconomics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do So Few Women Work in New York (And So Many in Minneapolis)?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amol Agrawal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice paper from  Dan A. Black, Natalia Kolesnikova and Lowell J. Taylor. The results are pretty intuitive. They say cities which have larger commuting time have fewer working women: This paper documents a little-noticed feature of U.S. labor markets&#124;very large variation in the labor supply of married women across cities. We focus on cross-city differences in commuting times as [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1042553&#038;post=12233&#038;subd=mostlyeconomics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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