Book Review: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man To the layman, economic development often connotes material accumulation where the chief end is to boost income and consumption. Not that this view is wrong in itself but as economists, we are called to look beyond economic growth when we talk about development. Other aspects such as [...]
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Managed to drag my ass out of the bed, into the shower and onto the couch at about 5pm today. One lobe of my brain seems to be twitching (maybe from all the sleep) but as I sat and reflected on the past semester, it may well have been my best so far. And not [...]
For those who missed the article in Malaysiakini, here’s the link. For those too lazy to visit the website, here’s the article: University elections a microcosm of society I’m a second year undergraduate, currently pursuing my economics degree in our well-known local institution, Universiti Malaya. Just recently, I attended Pekuma’s (Persatuan Ekonomi Universiti Malaya) AGM [...]
Migration in progress from clarencechoong.blogspot.com. I’d like to officiate this blog with a post on my university – Universtiy of Malaya. University of Malaya. Ranks 180th in the world, top in Malaysia, with all the other local universities two football fields behind. It gives a certain impression that being an undergraduate in this glorious institution is [...]
Undergraduates from the Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Malaya, present Statistics II. Good English: “By using the Z-test, we can conclude that at a 0.05 level of significance, there is sufficient evidence of a difference in mean for the variables selected.” New English: “By using the jackass, we can conclude that at a [...]
