Economics people like to think at the margin. Yoram Bauman even made a joke out of this - “I’m going to buy an orange, I’m going to buy another orange, I’m going to buy another orange - ”
So do I. Of course, I don’t buy one orange at a time; my margin unit for fruits […]

I previously mentioned that I had to use EViews this semester, instead of the already familiar R. Naturally, I wasn’t very happy, me being more used to R (and also, used to using R in my usual work). Then again, as they say, “never try, never know”. Grudgingly, I got EViews 6 last week, before […]

So I went to a Hungry Jack’s (known elsewhere in the world as Burger King), in the middle of the night with friends, some time last week. This is how it looked like:

Yep, this is how it looked like at 11.10 p.m. We went there on impulse - I said I wanted to eat something […]

Hmm, as I mentioned in How to Know If You’re A Geek, I bought Discover Your Inner Economist by Tyler Cowen a few nights ago. Busy with meetings, I only managed to start and finish reading this a few hours ago (I don’t do books in more than 2 sittings, I lose interest after that).
To […]

I got into a car accident yesterday. It was a pile-up, and though no one was injured (seriously), according to Malaysian traffic law, me being the last car, am the one at fault (despite physical evidence suggests that it was the first car which stopped abruptly which caused the whole pile-up). Now I’m not debating […]