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Thought for the weekend - From the *Financial Times* coverage of Obama's arrival in Ghana (seen at right): “When a white man like the French president comes to tell you to put you...2 days ago
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Updates on Iran's Post-Election Turmoil - The Lede is continuing to track the reaction to Iran's disputed presidential election online. After Thursday's renewed protests, on the tenth anniversary o...2 days ago
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Economic and financial data, neatly wrapped - In the course of an average week, the research department of the Atlanta Fed goes over a lot of data. We periodically bundle the standard data releases into ...2 days ago
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Weekly Federal Reserve balance sheet update - This post is by Mark Dow This just hit my inbox, from the research team at Barclays. Since we’ve talked a fair amount of late about the Fed balance sheet, ...2 days ago
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Cooking With Corn - Corn season is short, but Martha Rose Shulman shows you how to make the most of it.2 days ago
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Book Review Podcast: Arianne Cohen and Howard Blum - This week: Arianne Cohen, author of "The Tall Book"; Howard Blum on Richard Rayner's "Bright and Guilty Place"; Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and ...2 days ago
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Loneliness or Cheap Wine - I'm alone in Europe, living in an apartment and cooking for myself. I bought a bottle of decent red wine for the remarkably low price of €2.99 and am consu...2 days ago
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Havel on the "spiritual or moral dimensions of politics" - (Durham, NH) I think that Vaclav Havel's 1992 speech in Poland is famous, but I am focusing on it for the first time because we have assigned it for our summ...2 days ago
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Marxism & the mainstream - Is there a difference any more between Marxism and orthodox social science? I’m prompted to ask by this paper by Jeremy Greenwood. He writes: A large part of...2 days ago
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Swoopo - Over at The Big Money, Mark Gimein has a fascinating article on Swoopo.com. Gimein calls Swoopo "the crack cocaine of auction sites" and says it's "the e...2 days ago
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neuro culture - neuro culture is a beautiful and interesting website that tracks the interaction between neuroscience and visual art as it develops across the world. It work...2 days ago
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20+ Resources to Become a Better Mind Mapper - Today's post highlights resources to promote best practices and ways to mind map. It includes webinars, podcasts, map galleries and more...2 days ago
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BBC World Service - You know, as an economist and especially one who is researching and thinking about serious public policy constantly, to be interviewed by the BBC World Ser...3 days ago
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Robert McNamara - Love him or loathe him, there is no disputing that Robert McNamara, who died yesterday at the age of 93, had an extraordinary career and an amazingly brill...3 days ago
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“The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression: Who Succumbed and Why?” - Barry Eichengreen and Doug Irwin look at the drivers of Depression-era protectionism: The Great Depression was marked by protectionist trade policies and t...3 days ago
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A New Online Issue of Oxonomics - A new online issue of our journal Oxonomics is freely available here. I will blog about some of the articles in the next few days. Particular highlights incl...3 days ago
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Income and Substitution Effects Explain Changes in Burrito Consumption - I took many economics courses, and yet it wasn’t until I experienced a change in my own personal finances that I really understood the nature of the income...4 days ago
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Vark Goes Twitter - I'm on vacation this week, ostensibly, building a treehouse and taking time off. Hence the light posting schedule. But I've also been tracking Aardvark, th...5 days ago
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Robert Strange McNamara - It was Henry Ford II who reportedly said of Robert McNamara: "In our business, we are lucky if we make the right decision 51% of the time. What I have notice...6 days ago
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Gas Pump Prices and Cost Sensitivity - According to a survey fielded by AAA, 37.1 million Americans will be traveling over the July 4th holiday weekend. According to AAA if this prediction proves ...2 weeks ago
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Assorted - From Poverty to Prosperity Watch The Lord is my central banker, I shall not want… Plastic fantastic Global Development Finance 2009: Charting a Global Re...2 weeks ago
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The Saga of the Secular Elite - If you read the New York Times and take it seriously, you might think that I am referring to the political situation in Turkey. Well, guess again.And if yo...4 weeks ago
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Rethinking the Mall - At a convention for shopping mall designers and developers, a glimpse of the future and, unfortunately, the past.5 weeks ago
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Barack Obama: The First 100 Days - Barack Obama is approaching the end of his first 100 days in office as the United States’ 44th President. Traditionally viewed by the media as the first in...2 months ago
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Gadget guru on the move - Paul Taylor continues to answer your gadgetry questions. Visit his updated Gadget guru page to see questions and answers on the latest gizmos, software an...3 months 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...3 months ago
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Satan and the G-16: A Sacrilegious Rant and a (Modest?) Proposal - It appears now that the G-20 intend to make their compromise with the devil. That’s pretty much inevitable, since the devil is one of them. When I say the ...3 months ago
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For we are young and free? - As I've been spending this Australia Day long weekend writing about the paternalist nanny state in health policy, I have been struck by the multiplicity of...5 months 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...7 months ago
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Now also with non-English blogs - Now that I have figured out how to make the welcome message stick at the top, I will also post from time to time about additions. For the moment, I have ad...9 months 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...1 year ago
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