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The Bank's scepticism - British capitalism is dysfunctional, and policy-makers have done little since the crisis began to repair it. This isn't (just) my opinion, but that of some m...4 hours ago
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FATCA, Tax Havens & the New American Imperialism - *Once upon a time there was an offshore, where we'd hide a multimillion dollar account or two*... The wheels of financial history are spinning once more. ...5 hours ago
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The failure of electricity market reform - As many readers will be aware, The Guardian now has an Australian edition, and I’ve just published an opinion piece in their Comment is Free section, looki...12 hours ago
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The 4-Minute Workout - A single, strenuous four-minute workout can effectively improve health and fitness as much as longer workouts can, researchers found. Download the "Well 4-...13 hours ago
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Productivity Prompts: Getting Things Done with Mind Maps - For those of you starting to think about using mind maps for getting things done, David Allen’s GTD Connect community is a great place to start. Some tim...22 hours ago
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Edward Snowden’s Retail Psychoanalysts in the Media - As soon as the Edward Snowden story broke, retail psychoanalysts in the media began to psychologize the whistle-blower, finding in his actions a tangled pa...23 hours ago
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Is social psychology really in crisis? - My latest ‘behind the headlines’ column for The Conversation. Probably all old news for you wised-up mindhacks.com readers, but here you go: The headlines ...1 day ago
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Protests Expand in Brazil, Fueled by Video of Police Brutality - Protests in Brazil against the high cost of living and lavish spending on soccer stadiums ahead of next year's World Cup have intensified as images of poli...1 day ago
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Moving On: Part Two - Advice on facing the future from readers to the author, who still doesn't sound too sanguine about it all.1 day ago
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Reform of the Tax Code-Becker - The federal tax code is a mess from any economic perspective. It is not efficient, fair, or clear. A complete set of suggestions to improve the tax system wo...2 days ago
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Quote-Worthy - From Bart Gellman's latest re NSA/Snowden: "We have rich oversight across three branches of government. I’ve got an [inspector general] here, a fairly robust...3 days ago
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Excellent Content Marketing: Dear NSA… - The post Excellent Content Marketing: Dear NSA… appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. This short Slideshare deck, an extremely clever satire of ...1 week ago
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Casting a Web over Jobs Data - Writing in the Wall Street Journal prior to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Friday release of the May employment data, Ed Lazear (Stanford professor and...1 week ago
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Melitz and Redding on heterogeneous firms and gains from trade - In a recent VoxEU column, Marc Melitz and Stephen Redding describe the logic of Melitz (Ecma, 2003) and Arkolakis, Costinot, and Rodriguez-Clare (AER, 2012...1 week ago
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Why would an organization enourage such a conflict of interest? - I realize organizations need money but sometimes conflicts of interest seem to dominate common sense. A case in point: The New Rules for Sunscreen - NYTim...3 weeks ago
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Prefab Lives! - Modular building, a design approach that once focused on single-family homes, is becoming increasingly popular for multi-unit residences.3 weeks ago
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Got Lobster? - It’s a good thing I don’t have to watch my cholesterol, because after moving to the Maine seacoast last July, I simply cannot get enough lobster. Though I...3 weeks ago
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Marathon - I posted all I can say publicly at Skippy. And even that wouldn't work at a family blog like this one. The rest are jokes that I am told--undoubtedly corre...2 months ago
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Why I am on Hunger Strike in Bahrain - Zainab al-Khawaja, a human rights activist in Bahrain, writes a letter from prison about why she is on a hunger strike and how Martin Luther King Jr. guide...2 months ago
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Ironic punishments: Snot edition - Ironic punishments: Snot edition Apparently one of the behavioural challenges as a parent is to convince children to wipe snot and other related facial dir...2 months ago
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Routemaster - One of the occasional pleasures of the job is hobnobbing with the movers and shakers (preferably they do more of the former) of the transport world, like...3 months ago
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Our 500,000th Twitter Follower - Yesterday we passed 500,000 in Twitter followers. Thank you! The person who put us over the top was *Dan Kreitz* (@dankreitz). We'll send some Freakonomic...4 months ago
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Motorola Phone Screen - Moving on from the motorola phone screen by simply pressing play, pause, rewind and skip using these new exterior controls. This is the motorola phone sc...9 months ago
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Why model? - The first question that arises frequently--sometimes innocently and sometimes not--is simply, "Why model?" Imagining a rhetorical (non-innocent) inquis...10 months ago
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NBER Paper on Peer Effects - Peer Effects in Program ParticipationGordon B. Dahl, Katrine V. Løken, Magne Mogstad *NBER Working Paper No. 18198* *Issued in June 2012* *NBER Program(s):...11 months ago
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The latest discussions about economics research in the blogosphere - Follow the latest blog posts discussing economics research throughout the blogosphere.1 year ago
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Bullish It - OK, so I decided to do a substantive post – something I haven’t done in a while because this blog has fallen into the category where, if I have the time an...1 year ago
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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? Sectio...1 year ago
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Spherical Waves and the Hairy Ball Theorem - Boy howdy do we love spheres in physics. Sure we might tell you that the reason involves deep truths in topology, and symmetry, and group theory, and all...1 year ago
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Google Plus – Innovators and Early Adopters - On June 28, 2011, Google+ launched with a limited, invitation-only beta. Now, nearly a month and half later and a less restrictive invitation policy, what ...1 year ago
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Annual semi-data-driven favorite songs list: 2012 - Somewhat late this year, here is my semi-data-driven look back at my 10 favorite songs of 2012. (I have previously conducted this empirical/subjective exer...2 years ago
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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 ove...2 years ago
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A Conversation about Gasoline Prices - According to yesterday’s weekly federal report, This Week in Petroleum, the average price of regular gasoline is up to $3.96 per gallon, just 15 cents shy ...2 years ago
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Gobal Civil Society in the making - by Johannes Staemmler The number of internationally operating NGOs has risen drastically over the last years. They are to some extent an indicator for what...2 years ago
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U-verse app delivers TV to smartphones - ‘Place-shifting’ technology, pioneered by companies like Sling Media with its SlingBox and SlingPlayer Mobile service, has proved popular with consumers ...2 years ago
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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 ...2 years ago
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Goodbye Scienceblogs - NOTE: This blog has moved. The Frontal Cortex is now over here. I've got some exciting news: Starting today, the Frontal Cortex will be moving over to th...2 years ago
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The end of management as we knew it - The death of the FT Management Blog Continue reading: The end of management as we knew it3 years ago
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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*garble...3 years ago
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REFORM: Increasing Medicare Payroll Tax Musters Support - The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities concludes that the idea of raising the Medicare payroll tax "on high-wage earners would represent a sound and ...3 years ago
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One time return to blogging - My post on the G-20′s agenda can be found on the official Pittsburgh Summit blog.3 years ago
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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 wh...4 years ago
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Re-opening for business (in one form or another) - by Conor Clarke Hi again, and sorry for the publishing hiatus. The Creative Capitalism book is now done. It comes out December 2 -- "just in time for the hol...4 years ago
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The Noisy Game of Baseball - By Julie J. Rehmeyer Halfway through the 2005 baseball season, John Olerud was having a great year with the Boston Red Sox. His batting average was .405, far...5 years ago
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