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Sunday, December 30, 2007

Assorted

Growth Wisdom from Charles Kenny

Trends and Issues in Development Aid

Denmark Feels the Pinch as Young Workers Flee to Lands of Lower Taxes

The Truth About Salvadoran Gangs: A Guest Post

Krugman on Trade

China Lets Currency Appreciate a Bit Faster

The IMF's data for global reserve growth in q3

Do We Need Death? The Consequences of Radical Life Extension

Finding Alzheimer’s Before a Mind Fails

Report Says That the Rich Are Getting Richer Faster, Much Faster

Housing price-rental ratios
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My Blog List

  • Campaign for the American Reader
    Pg. 99: Elia Powers's "Performing the News" - Featured at the Page 99 Test: Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality by Elia Powers. About the book, from the publisher: Perf...
    5 hours ago
  • Healthcare Economist
    Should Dynamic Drug Pricing be Incorporated into Cost-Effectiveness Analyses? - Cost effectiveness analyses (CEA) aim to examine how a new health technologies impact health outcomes and costs over a patient’s lifetime. While extrapolat...
    7 hours ago
  • Lifehacker
    The New iPad Mini 7 Is $84 Off Right Now - The new iPad mini just came out in October, and its price has already dropped by $84.
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  • How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic
    Ford Escape Transmission Problems (Fixed) - A popular compact SUV, the Ford Escape is known for its ample interior, sleek design, and versatile capabilities. However, owners have had transmission iss...
    19 hours ago
  • John Quiggin
    Monday Message Board - Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits,...
    1 day ago
  • Crooked Timber
    Sunday photoblogging: Nîmes, the Maison Carée - [image: Nîmes - Maison carrée]
    2 days ago
  • The Mindjet Blog
    How to implement a knowledge management system - Let’s say a team member wants to replicate a report, host a recurring meeting for the first time, or upload a new piece of software to their machine. Do ...
    4 days ago
  • Trade Diversion
    Luck along the way - In January 2025, I will join Columbia University as a tenured Associate Professor of Economics. I’m happy to return to my alma mater. Since folks tend to u...
    2 weeks ago
  • International Political Economy Zone
    African Extractive Industries: PRC Neocolonialism - That the slow development of the African continent can be traced to Western colonialism is an archetype of this field of study: Mainly interested in extr...
    5 months ago
  • FP Passport - blogging on global news, politics, economics, and ideas
    Japan Finally Got Inflation. Nobody Is Happy About It. - After 25 years of deflation, the public is mad about price rises.
    9 months ago
  • Economics and...
    κνζν - What a difference a decade makes.
    11 months ago
  • Stumbling and Mumbling
    Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives - Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and joined the...
    1 year ago
  • Cafe Hayek
    Some Links - (Don Boudreaux) TweetWriting in the Wall Street Journal, NYU physicist Steven Koonin reports on how the Biden White House inadvertently told the truth abou...
    1 year ago
  • The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog
    Corporate Political Spending and State Tax Policy: Evidence from Citizens United - In January 2010, decades of legal precedent were overturned when the Supreme Court, in Citizens United v. FEC, decided that the government cannot restrict ...
    2 years ago
  • Mind Hacks
    Chromostereopsis - The effect varies for different people. Take a moment and look at this. Some people don’t see anything special: just a blue iris in a red eye. For me thoug...
    2 years ago
  • macroblog
    Do Higher Wages Mean Higher Standards of Living? - Editor's note: We have updated macroblog's location on our website, although archival posts will remain at their original location. Readers who use RSS sho...
    4 years ago
  • The American Prospect Articles
    Five Key Takeaways From Israel’s Indecisive Election Rerun - Heidi Levine/Sipa/Pool via AP Benjamin Netanyahu at a voting station in Jerusalem, September 17, 2019 Anyone expecting clarity from Israel’s electoral re...
    5 years ago
  • John Battelle's Searchblog
    Do We Want A Society Built On The Architecture of Dumb Terminals? - The post Do We Want A Society Built On The Architecture of Dumb Terminals? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. God, “innovation.” First banali...
    6 years ago
  • Game Theorist
    A new shop for parents who've done better - It has been a while. Actually, I am not sure anyone reads this blog anymore and even if they did how they might find out about a new post. Anyhow, your eco...
    6 years ago
  • Well
    I Tried to Befriend My Husband’s Ex. So What? - Our columnist probes a reader’s remorselessness, among other things.
    6 years ago
  • Nicholas D. Kristof
    This Blog, R.I.P. - We're closing the blog — but you're still stuck with my writing!
    6 years ago
  • The Caucus
    Editorial: What Congressmen Are Hiding - A system for settling sexual harassment complaints against lawmakers puts the burden on victims, and taxpayers.
    6 years ago
  • WSJ.com: Law Blog - WSJ.com
    The WSJ Law Blog: 2006-2017 - More than a decade ago, The Wall Street Journal launched Law Blog. It had a simple name but a novel approach to legal coverage in the pre-Twitter era. The ...
    7 years ago
  • FinanceProfessor.com
    FedEx Saved From Bankruptcy With Blackjack Winnings - Business Insider - How I missed this for all these years is beyond me, but it fits my classes PERFECTLY!! When you have nothing to lose, you might as well take big risks! Se...
    7 years ago
  • Geary Behaviour Centre
    Bob Dylan - One More Cup Of Coffee (Live 1975 ) -
    7 years ago
  • Brad Setser: Follow the Money
    China Still Wants To Import Commodities, Not Manufactures (Judging From The “Early Harvest” Trade Deal) - China tends to import natural resources—oil, iron ore, soybeans and the like. Now that China has a large industrial economy,...
    7 years ago
  • The Belgravia Dispatch
    Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - In this most memorable of U.S. elections, it has become generally received wisdom that Donald Trump will have us slouching towards a dangerously erratic, p...
    7 years ago
  • Paper Cuts
    Service Advisory: ArtsBeat Is Finished. - This is post No. 23,231 on the ArtsBeat blog. And it is the last one.
    8 years ago
  • Bits
    Daily Report: A Net Neutrality Setback for Facebook in India - In the United States, the social media giant has been an advocate of equal treatment of all Internet content. In India, regulators who share that belief ha...
    8 years ago
  • İyigün Blog
    herbal untuk jantung dan darah tinggi yang ampuh - Apakah Anda tahu bahwa madu mampu memberikan M segala macam manfaat bagi kesehatan manusia? Madu diakui mengingat bahwa zaman kuno sebagai obat, dan penggun...
    10 years ago
  • The Lede
    The Lede Is Going Dark - The Lede will no longer be updated, but the blog’s regular features will remain a part of The New York Times news report.
    10 years ago
  • The Becker-Posner Blog
    Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner
    10 years ago
  • Aplia Econ Blog: News for Economics Students
    The Economics and Egonomics of New Year's Resolutions - If you are like many Americans, you made a New Year's resolution, and, if you are like most of those people, you will have given up on it before the year...
    10 years ago
  • Built on Facts
    Is Bitcoin Currently Experiencing a Selfish Miner Attack? - Is Bitcoin Currently Experiencing a Selfish Miner Attack? Probably not. All right, now that you know my conclusion, let's see how to get there with data....
    10 years ago
  • Oxonomics
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    11 years ago
  • Bluematter.
    Why model? - The first question that arises frequently--sometimes innocently and sometimes not--is simply, "Why model?" Imagining a rhetorical (non-innocent) inquisi...
    12 years ago
  • Econ Academics Blog
    The latest discussions about economics research in the blogosphere - Follow the latest blog posts discussing economics research throughout the blogosphere.
    12 years ago
  • MTEF is The Bayesian Heresy
    Good Text Book on Public Policy - Section I: What Is Public Policy? Chapter 1: Public Decision Making Chapter 2: Why Is It So Hard to Make the World a Better Place? Section ...
    12 years ago
  • murketing
    The end … - This is the end of our broadcast day here at Murketing.com. Thanks for having tuned in! Please head over to RobWalker.net for more on whatever I’m up to no...
    13 years ago
  • Peter Levine
    this site is moving - After more than eight years at this address and more than more than seven years blogging with the same old version of MovableType software, I am shifting o...
    13 years ago
  • 2 Blowhards
    An Announcement - Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Friends -- You imagine it can't happen to you, and then it does. Here's why 2Blowhards disappeared: Our webhost, who'd given ...
    14 years ago
  • Management Blog
    The end of management as we knew it - The death of the FT Management Blog
    14 years ago
  • Gene Expression
    Armenian genetics - Armenian genes: Scientist in Yerevan launches a project to reveal genetic history of the nation. The description of the science in the piece is *very* garb...
    14 years ago
  • Harry Clarke
    New site - I have a new site at *WordPress*: http://www.harryrclarke.com/ *Readers please adjust your browser settings. * It is goodbye *Blogger* for at least a whil...
    15 years ago
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