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Once again a thousand apologies for such delays between posts, I am sad to report that much of the same can be expected for at least another month or so as I am finalizing my dissertation and defending in the very near future.
As for the title of the post, I am very excited to report that I have accepted a tenure track appointment as assistant professor of economics at Loyola University New Orleans. What a fine feeling this homecoming will be. Thanks to everyone who has already wished me a kind congratulations and thanks to everyone who has helped and supported me throughout this grueling process.
I'm pleased to announce that Claudia Williamson and I have won the Don Lavoie essay contest this year.
Claudia is doing fascinating work on the empirical differences between formal and informal institutions and their influences upon economic growth and development through the development of secure private property rights. To make a long story short she concludes that informal cultural norms are more influential on the security of private property rights rather than formal codifications of private property.
Congrats to Claudia and thank you to all of the judges.
My website: danieljdamico.com has just been updated. The latest versions of my CV, older working papers, and some new working papers are up as well, so be sure to check it out.
This post may not be appreciated or agreed with by many people, but it's something that has come to mind that I feel compelled to write down nonetheless. In breaking news there has been a terrible school shooting at Virginia Tech. I'd like to start by saying that this is a terrible tragedy and my heart goes out to the victims, their families and everyone effected.
I'm unsatisfied with the argument that pharmaceutical companies need patents on their new drugs because otherwise their R and D is so expensive and long term that a removal of their patent privilege would greatly reduce the number of new drugs that hit the market. The argument then implies that keeping this amount of drugs from dropping is well worth whatever innovations and losses the monopoly restrictions bring along.
My rare but most appreciated readers have probably noticed that most of the sites archives are missing. The brilliant David Veksler is on the case, and said they can be salvaged. Stay tuned...
