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We are the wannabe economists of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. We use this blog to share out thoughts on the world economy and the rest. So...here's our musings and policy reflections.
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- It's "about" time
- Does Mankiw really think poverty is caused by lazi...
- The benefits of a recession?
- The Inefficiency of Markets in Times of Stress
- BBL and Rigotnomics Working papers
- XIV. Spring Meeting of Young Economists 2009
- Hacking Democracy - Electoral Fraud In The USA
- RIGOTNOMICS WP SERIES
- Credit ratings and geopolitics
- Countercylclical job offers
- The decreasing returns to traveling
- Is there a conflict of interests?
- Course Notes
- Brokers with hands on their faces
- Quote of the day
- Corruption survey
- Nouriel "Dr Doom" Roubini
- The real costs of a credit crunch
- Maritime transport costs
- Vessel casualties
- Economics Departments Rankings
- Paul Krugman wins the Nobel Prize!!!!
- Reporting Of Financial / Economic News
- DSGE Models and Central Banks
- Brown Bag Lunch
- Talk about feasting while Rome burns
- No mas dolares por favor!!!
- Nobel Laureate Stiglitz lectures on the Financial ...
- Only seminal contributions deserve the Nobel Prize
- Currency Crisis/ Is Iceland a step closer to the EU?
- Stiglitz at UNIGE
- Should we let the financial markets shrink?
- Political preferences in Italy
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I was there... I was studying in New York, Columbia University. I flew there to mingle with the Chilean delegation (all former collaborators). I was given a delegate card, in anticipation of potential troubles. So I found myself in a very special position: a student in NY with special access to meetings and the curfew zone. I saw the destruction, I crossed to the "outside" world of antoglobalization protesters with a journalist colleague. They had a feast outthere, everybody chanting, fully mobilized. I even have pictures with soldiers. At dinner we would be briefed on all major events: the Clinton gaffe, among others, when he said that "the WTO should develop these core labor standards, and then they ought to be a part of every trade agreement". I attended meetings as well. I was at the plenary when Charlene Barshefsky admitted defeat.
My point is: it was a sad moment. "Insiders" to the WTO system, consensus-based, rules-based multiteral trading system, do find it useful, pretty fair, and moving in the right direction, for the better good. We could see the fundamental antagonism in positions taken by antiglobalization friends: José Bové is indeed the worst ennemy of African farmers as we were recently recalled by Prof. Arcand.
And then, back in Columbia, there were several seminars on the WTO debacle (just like now on the financial crisis). And I was pretty much the only student on campus to defend the WTO!
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