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	<description>This is a blog about nothing. Well, not exactly... This is a blog about nothing and some of the things in life seen through the eyes of an economics graduate student.</description>
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		<title>GUEST BLOGGER: How to Get an A in a Macroeconomics Exam?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 13:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My good friend and colleague Rene Pineda wrote his unique methodology to get an A in a Macro Exam. Here is the transcript of his methodology: How I&#8217;m going to get an A in Macro I will study really hard. &#8230; <a href="http://thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/guest-blogger-how-to-get-an-a-in-a-macroeconomics-exam/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6865016&amp;post=159&amp;subd=thehomoeconomicus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About Starbucks and Demand Curves&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 03:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I rarely drink coffee, but the other day I went with a couple of friends to Starbucks, and decided to try an iced coffee. I asked for the smallest one available. However, the woman in the counter told me: &#8220;Are &#8230; <a href="http://thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/about-starbucks-and-demand-curves/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6865016&amp;post=150&amp;subd=thehomoeconomicus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Beginning of a Journey&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 23:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I wrote in a previous post, I&#8217;ll be spending this summer in India doing research in a micro-finance project. So, as promised, I will use this blog to keep you updated about my experiences and some of my findings &#8230; <a href="http://thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/the-begining-of-a-journey/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6865016&amp;post=143&amp;subd=thehomoeconomicus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Marginal Productivity of an Additional Line in your Resume</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 05:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the assumptions that economists use very often is the &#8220;diminishing returns to scale&#8221; assumption, which means that each additional worker in your factory (keeping constant the number of machines) helps to increase your output but in a smaller &#8230; <a href="http://thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/the-marginal-productivity-of-an-additional-line-in-your-resume/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6865016&amp;post=138&amp;subd=thehomoeconomicus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After almost a year&#8230; what is this blog about?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 01:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been repeatetly arguing that this is a blog about nothings. However, as a good economist, we must test for this hypothesis. My tool to test it is the website http://www.wordle.net/ which created this word cloud of my blog. The &#8230; <a href="http://thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/after-almost-a-year-what-is-this-blog-about/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6865016&amp;post=135&amp;subd=thehomoeconomicus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The NINJA Crisis&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 00:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NINJA (no income, no job or assets)  crisis, as explained by its creator &#8211; Leopoldo Abadia &#8211; is the analysis of the causes of the current economic crisis explained in a very subtle and funny way. I am sorry, &#8230; <a href="http://thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/the-ninja-theory/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6865016&amp;post=129&amp;subd=thehomoeconomicus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Swine Flu and Information Asymmetries.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 03:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In economics, equilibrium is the long term stable outcome of any dynamic process. We not always reach equilibrium, and to be honest, we don&#8217;t really care how do we reach them. We only care about their existence. However, shocks can &#8230; <a href="http://thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/the-swine-flu-and-information-asymmetries/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6865016&amp;post=125&amp;subd=thehomoeconomicus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Something for May 1st</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 22:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is something funny I found in You Tube. For the record, I&#8217;m not endorsing the Internationale or Communism. I&#8217;m posting it just because today is May 1st. So just read the lyrics&#8230; it will be either funny or very &#8230; <a href="http://thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/something-for-may-1st/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6865016&amp;post=123&amp;subd=thehomoeconomicus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Things I&#8217;ve Learned about America&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been living already for about 8 months in the United States. More specifically in Cambridge, MA. It has been an exciting experience and I must say that I like the country and the American people as well. I wanted &#8230; <a href="http://thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/three-things-ive-learned-about-america/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6865016&amp;post=118&amp;subd=thehomoeconomicus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contribute with the cause&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week ago I heard the following argument: &#8220;for every one comment in your blog, you have approximately 4 readers&#8221;&#8230; So, let&#8217;s just make this experiment and come back with a counter argument. Let&#8217;s see if I can get ONE &#8230; <a href="http://thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/contribute-with-the-cause/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thehomoeconomicus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6865016&amp;post=112&amp;subd=thehomoeconomicus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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