Monthly Archives: June 2019

Abortion

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Francesc Rodríguez Tous

Abortion is a great example of a topic where the two sides argue from completely different perspectives. One side—pro-choice—argues that abortion is a private matter, and hence it is up to the woman to decide. The other—pro-file—claims that a fetus … Continue reading →

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Justice, by Michael J. Sandel

Posted on June 23, 2019 by Francesc Rodríguez Tous

Michael J. Sandel is a professor at Harvard University who has been teaching a course called Justice for many years. In it, Professor Sandel talks about the different approaches to morality and justice, from Aristotle to Rawls, Kant and Mills. And … Continue reading →

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Economics of voluntary information sharing

Posted on June 22, 2019 by Francesc Rodríguez Tous

Almost a month ago now I attended the wonderful 3rd Bristol Workshop in Banking and Financial Intermediation at the University of Bristol. I was there to act as discussant of a paper titled Economics of voluntary information sharing, presented by … Continue reading →

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Glenn Loury

Posted on June 21, 2019 by Francesc Rodríguez Tous

Glenn C. Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Social Sciences at Brown University. He got his PhD in Economics from MIT in 1976. By 1983, he had two QJEs, one REStud, one AER, and one Econometrica. Yep. These … Continue reading →

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Deep Work, by Cal Newport

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Francesc Rodríguez Tous

I came across Deep Work around a year ago. It was a great time to find out about the book: I was the course director for two undergraduate degrees at Cass and it was becoming difficult to deal with all … Continue reading →

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