Thursday, June 25, 2009

Heading Back

Had a great visit to Boulder for a couple of days after my presentation at the ISNIE conference (International Society for the New Institutional Economics) on participatory problem-solving fora in Peru. The conference, though productive (and very fancy) was not as great as I hoped.

ISNIE Highlights:
1. Seeing Daron Acemoglu's keynote (a little shady, but pretty interesting stuff using Napoleonic invasions as a natural experiment)
2. Really good burritos in San Francisco
3. Checking out Oakland
4. Wearing my wicked awesome Cusco-made three piece suit for the first time
5. Giving a very detailed presentation on a quantitative analysis of the effects of participatory problem-solving fora in Peruvian local agricultural policy, then getting asked, "So, what's Peru like?"

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