Markus Jäntti
The Beggar
Marcus Collin (1935)
The theme of The Beggar reflects an aspect society I am interested in: the distribution of economic well-being.
The scene depicted in the painting is one of special interest and great priority: the resources available to fellow human beings are such that they are reduced to begging.
Contact information
- Department of Economics and Statistics
Åbo Akademi University
20500 Turku
Finland
+358 2 2154160
CV
[pdf]Recent working papers
Open source
I am a great believer in the open source software movement. (For much of its philosophical roots, see the Free Software Foundation.) This mean in practice that I use Linux. The aesthetically pleasing GNOME desktop and associated tools provides me with a nice working environment.
There are many excellent tools for my kind of work. My current statistics favorite is R, I write using emacs and set my texts using LaTeX. Many thanks to the countless authors of these excellent tools.