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[macroblog] Odds And Ends: Another quarter begins at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and I have once again cleverly fallen behind on my reading, giving me the excuse to introduce some of my favorite weblogs to new students, via this review of things I should have talked about last week.
Howard J. Bashman's appellate columns, etc.: Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior Univ., 489 U.S. 468 (1989), the Supreme Court concluded that the FAA did not preempt a California law that permitted a state court to stay arbitration pending the resolution of related litigation involving third-parties who were not bound by an agreement to arbitrate. Volt arose in the California state court system, and before the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court a California state court had ruled that the parties' forum selection clause mandating application of California law demonstrated the parties' intent to apply California's body of arbitration law.
[Peking Dork] A Stupid Move: Peking Dork BlogThis! Peking Dork Sunday, October 31 Al-Arabiya According to Peter Feuilherade's 2003 Profile of Al-Arabiya TV,Al-Arabiya, the Dubai-based satellite TV channel banned from reporting from Iraq by the country's interim government, is consistently rated among the top
[Econlog.econlib.org] EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty: I recommend checking Greg's blog daily, particularly if you are a student or teacher of undergraduate economics.
[Marginalrevolution.com] Marginal Revolution: Nobel short list?: His problem is that he has been given credit for things that he did not originate, and from the sources I have the Nobel committee knows it, or at least some people who were on the committee in the not-too-distant past knew it (the commmittee has turnover, and I am not sure who is on it now other than Jurgen Weibull, the evolutionary game theorist who was the main advocate for John Nash receiving it). Much press has been expended giving credit to Krugman for both the "new international trade" (presumably the basis for putting him in there with Bhagwati and Dixit) and the "new economic geography." However, he clearly did not invent the first, and also did not invent the second.
[Knowledgeproblem.blogspot.com] The Knowledge Problem: Tyler Cowen has been making some very interesting posts over at Marginal Revolution (Alex Tabarrok has too, but I'm not going to say anything about them here, now!)I particularly thank and curse him for the reference to this normblog greatest jazz albums poll (although with RIAA Radar, I am loathe to buy many of them that I don't already own!)
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