Many thanks to William Sjostrom for posting the link to a short article on how to craft a successful paper presentation. I think it hits the nail squarely on the head: Any effective talk must do three things: communicate your arguments and ideas, persuade your audience they are true, and be interesting and entertaining. In …
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Odious Debts
In Thursday’s Economic Scene column in the New York Times, economist Alan Krueger raises the issues of post-Saddam Iraqi debt, and particularly points readers to this paper on the economics of odious debt by Michael Kremer and Seema Jayachandran of Harvard University. Many thanks to William Sjostrom at AtlanticBlog for posting on this. I also …