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Sep 05 2007 12:00am EDT

Research Roundup: Economists Shouldn't Rule the World

- The Chronicle of Higher Education calls out a paper -- not published by an economics journal of course -- which finds that "we cannot conclude that leadership training in economics leads to better economic outcomes."

- Our own (temporarily) Yves Smith has doubts about a new study written up on WSJ's front page which claims that a company's performance is adversely affected by deaths in the C.E.O.'s family. (The unquestioning Tyler Cowen seems to like it.)

- And guess what? Rock stars do die younger.


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