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F.C. BARCELONA 2 - ARSENAL 1

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!

The Music you are hearing is the Anthem of the "UEFA Champions League". If you listen carefully, you will hear that the anthem itself predicts our great victory. It says:

"El Barça, El Barça,

Que va a conseguir, LA CHAMPIONS"

Which, in Spanish, says

"The Barça, The Barça,

A Team that will win, THE CHAMPIONS"

Note: Barça is the nickname of our team.

Note (2): The pictures you are seeing were taken during the night of May the 17th, the night of the final. Besides the players, in the pictures you can see President Joan Laporta (in black suit), coach Frank Rijkaard (in the winners t-shirt with "Mes que un club" - or "more than a club"- display), and me (in yellow).

I was recently awarded the "King Juan Carlos I Prize of Economics" which is given to the person who the Bank of Spain thinks is the best economist in Spain and Latin America. Go figure...

Here is a VIDEO with King Juan Carlos's real opinion of me...

Note: The King is the guy in a grey suit next to the woman in pink (the Queen)

The $95.000 awarded with the King Juan Carlos I Prize were donated to UMBELE, a foundation dedicated to promote education and development in Africa. Click

www.umbele.org

for more information on this Foundation

Academic Stuff

My Classes at Columbia
Click here to see a nice Figure of the Evolution of the World Distribution of Income. You need Macromedia to see this figure (the figures come from my paper on the World Distribution of Income and the graph is courtesy of gapminder.com)
Information for my classes at Columbia . By the way, do you know what the New York Times thinks about us? (I like the bit about "Columbia has edged out Yale as the third-most selective Ivy League college, after Harvard and Princeton!")
Data Sets and Resources for Empirical Economists
Theorists Click Here
Marxists Click Here
Investors, forecasters, MBAs and other smart people Click Here
Keynesians Click Here
Demographers Click Here
Australians Click Here
Did you drink too much today? Here is an easy way to check!

Click Here IF YOU HAVE HAD A PAPER REJECTED RECENTLY

Take a look at a new WORLDWIDE RANKING OF ECONOMISTS (Source: Essential Science Indicators published by the Institute for Scientific Information of Philadelphia, host of the Social Science Citations Index).
The top 1000 MOST CITED ECONOMISTS OF THE WORLD
Take a look at a recent Article in the Economist about my Research
- Martin Ravallion of the World Bank, replies to The Economist and argues that, after a sustantial revision, the World Bank's estimates of poverty rates ARE SIMILAR TO MINE!!! Read this extraordinary response here.
- Click here for more press articles about my studies on poverty and income inequality
Another article in the New York Times about my research.

Personal Stuff

Articles of mine appeared in Catalan newspapers.
See the CATALAN VERSION

See the SPANISH-ONLY VERSION
My Curriculum Vitae
My Books and Papers . (Now you can DOWNLOAD some of the papers)
- My New Papers: "The Disturbing 'Rise' in World Income Inequality" and "The World Distribution of Income".
- Forthcoming in the Quarterly Journal of Economics: The World Distribution of Income: Falling Poverty and Convergence, Period!
- These two papers have been quite well received by the popular media all over the world. Click here for dozens of references.

MY NEW BOOK ON LIBERAL ECONOMICS!!! NOW IN CATALAN AND SPANISH (by the way, Liberal in Catalan and Spanish means what Americans call Classical Liberal). Click HERE to buy the book.
The Milken Review evaluates some Economist's Websites...including this one
My Country (get a live shot of Barcelona from the WebCam located at Hotel Arts)
FINALLY: TRES-DE-DEU!!!
My Town: New York, New York (get a live shot of New York from the WebCam located at Times Square)
My Real Name
My Favorite Woman

Other Stuff

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