Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Sortie d’animation avec la Bibliothèque Mobile Pénélope à l’école B de Houndé
- Ghana librarians do a group reading session
- Organisation d’une séance de mots croisés et d’une séance de dessin à la bibliothèque de Karaba
- Appréciations des livres CMH par professeurs du CEG de Maro
- Animation d’une séance de lecture guidée à la bibliothèque de Karaba
- Animation de l’animateur de ABVBF à la bibliothèque de Béréba, Burkina Faso
- Encouragement des élèves de l’école Sainte Thérèse de Houndé à la lecture
- Organisation d’une séance de lecture à voix haute à la bibliothèque de Koho
- Visite du coordonnateur et de l’animateur de ABVBF à la bibliothèque Lumière pour enfants à Houndé
- Une sortie d’animation de la BMP à l’école E de Houndé
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Civil society organizes against presidential guard… where will it go?
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Innovation in American economy for the future
Killing the Golden Goose: The Decline of Science in Corporate R&D by Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, and Andrea Patacconi. I briefly discussed this paper with my Osher class at Santa Clara (alumni and retired members of the SCU community). Many … Continue reading
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Who is onboard for a modest, coordinated, increase in global wealth tax on, let’s say, fortunes above $50 million?
King Abdullah of Jordan picked up the tab for a Christie family weekend at the end of the trip. The governor and two staff members who accompanied him came back to New Jersey bubbling that they had celebrated with Bono, … Continue reading
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When economists work for money, do they get dumber?
Let’s read the article from the Washington Post on Alan Krueger’s research paid for by Uber: Uber drivers in many of the company’s major markets are making about $6 an hour more than their traditional — and professional — taxi-driver … Continue reading
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Microsoft to acquire Revolution Analytics
I’m very pleased to announce that Microsoft has reached an agreement to acquire Revolution Analytics. Revolution Analytics is the leading commercial provider of software and services for R, the world’s most widely used programming language for statistical computing and predictive … Continue reading
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The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham
I confess the book lost my attention in the final third. I felt like I had understood enough, so I skimmed. I enjoyed reading it, even though I do not ordinarily like American family drama novels (I live it, what’s … Continue reading
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Sarcastics United: Justice Scalia Is our Champion, Literally and Snootily
Justice Scalia might have a different objection. “I’m a snoot,” he once said. “Snoots are those who are nit-pickers for the mot juste, for using a word precisely the way it should be used,” he explained. Professor Hasen, on the … Continue reading
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Another top economist (Sachs) disserves his readers
Jeffrey Sachs writes in an opinion piece (The War with Radical Islam by Jeffrey D. Sachs – Project Syndicate) To be clear, Western actions do not provide Islamist terrorism with a scintilla of justification. The reason to point out these … Continue reading
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Horrible writing from Larry Summers and Ed Balls
A report on wage stagnation in the United States, that I quickly perused, prompted the following question on style: Why do so many prominent economists think that nobody cares what they write as long as they understand the general thrust … Continue reading
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Beautiful Darkness by Kerascoët’s and Fabien Vehlmann
This was on many lists of best graphic novel of 2014, so I ordered it for Christmas present for Sukie. Very disturbing, but we had an intense discussion of what it “meant” where I got to be like a middle-school … Continue reading
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Pretty friggin sobering: Exploding wealth inequality in the United States
Since the housing and financial crises of the late 2000s there has been no recovery in the wealth of the middle class and the poor. The average wealth of the bottom 90 percent of families is equal to $80,000 in … Continue reading
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Early 2015 reflection on childhood
Yesterday at some point I remembered that when I was a kid I used to have a recurring dream that I could fly. The dream usually started with my standing in our driveway. We had two very large trees next … Continue reading
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Good editorial from the NY Times on the Fed’s current balancing act
The challenge for the Fed is to hold rates low without inflating bubbles. The way to do so is to control speculation through stepped-up regulation of banks and other financial institutions. Instead, the Fed has been inclined to ease up … Continue reading
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Books read in recent months… quick reviews
I have been terrible about recording what I have been reading and watching in the last few months. So I thought as a way to start off 2015 without that hanging over my head I could just to a one … Continue reading
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El Amor by Ricardo Arjona… he is coming to San Jose… too expensive for me
El amor es la belleza que se nutre de tristeza, y al final siempre se va..
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After grading, and after mother in hospital, time for holding your head high
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Why could the ruble not have collapsed while I was teaching macroeconomics?
To try to stanch the bleeding, on Monday evening (the middle of the night Moscow time), the Central Bank of Russia announced a stunning interest rate increase. Its main deposit rate is now 17 percent, up from 10.5 percent when … Continue reading
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Burkina Faso government suspends CDP and ADF-RDA
I hope in coming days there will be more clarification of exactly what the basis for the suspension is. Burkina Faso’s transitional government on Monday suspended the party of deposed president Blaise Compaore and two allied political groups which had … Continue reading
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Time for transition authorities in Burkina Faso to actually demonstrate rather than promise
It would be nice to see their own declarations of assets made public and enable journalists to investigate, and to see the declarations of old regime members (their assets were supposed to have been declared). Also, as REN-LAC says, what … Continue reading
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Why I generally detest Hollywood movies
Family and friends always ask me why I typically refuse to go to most Hollywood movie, why I sigh heavily when I am watching them, while I roll my eyes in the dark, why I have nothing to say after … Continue reading
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Michael Kevane 