Xavier Sala-i-Martin's Home Page

 

Guess who rang  the Opening Bell at t he NYSE on August 5th, 2008?   (look at the guy with the funny orange jacket!) Click Here if you want to see the Video of the Event Note: On August 5th the Dow Jones went up over 330 points or 2.94% (I guess they will invite me more often from now on)!!!

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 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

• My Curriculum Vitae
• My Books and Papers  

•  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
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• 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 

• My Favorite Artist
• Another Good Painting
• My Favorite Prima Ballerina
• A Romantic Moment...
• A picture of three sexy girls in their swimsuits
• My Tribute to the Most Powerful American Man of the 1990s.
• Animal Dreams Come True
• The Sight that Most Shook America After September 11
• African News
• President Aznar's view of Spain
• The Critical-Paranoic School of Economic Thought  EXPANDED LIST!  
• My Favorite Super Genius
• A Random Fortune Cookie
• My Favorite Historical Figure after Julius Caesar
• The World's Coolest Car!
• Casey B. Mulligan's home page
• Painting of a Naked Body with Forbidden Fruit
• The Greatest

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