Thursday, May 24, 2007

Are political assasinations pointless?

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“ Assassination has never changed the history of the world .” - Benjamin Disraeli, 1865, on the death of Abraham Lincoln On the eve of the c...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Political Art

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Source; Seven's Heaven Illustrations

Some New and Old Blogs

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The Borjas Blog - colleague of Dani Rodrik Development Marketplace blog - World Bank Freedomain: The Logic of Personal and Political Freedom...

Politics of fear makes Come back

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Irene Khan , Amnesty International Secretary General writes; "Fear of the outsider is a powerful totem for governments who mean to isol...

X-rated nude car wash OK in Down Under

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A nude car wash offering an X-rated sideshow and topless cleaning in Australia's tropical Queensland state has been given the all-clear ...

Female shark can reproduce assexually?

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A hammerhead shark that gave birth in a Nebraska aquarium reproduced without mating, a genetic analysis shows. This form of asexual reproduc...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Fatwa of the Day- Symbolic Breastfeeding

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Cairo's al-Azhar Islamic University on Monday suspended a lecturer who suggested that men and women work colleagues could use symbolic b...

Tyler Cowen not happy with Zimbabwe

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Tyler Cowen is not happy that Zimbabwe has won approval to lead the UN Commission on Sustainable Development . The Economist thinks otherwi...
Monday, May 21, 2007

Politics of Pension Reform in India

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Interesting op-ed on political realities of Indian pension reform- via Ajay Shah blog ; "To deal with this alarming situation, the Nat...

To Peg or Not

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Kuwait yesterday removed its currency peg to the US dollar, throwing plans for Gulf currency union by 2010 into doubt and raising the prospe...

What's Experimental Economics

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Listen to the Master- Vernon Smith at EconTalk.

India and Electricity

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According to the Planning Commission of India, 600 million people — roughly half the population — are off the electric grid... The World Ban...
Sunday, May 20, 2007

Econ Podcasts

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Todd Buchholz of Victoria Says Humans Can Adapt to Global Warming AC Grayling , a professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College, University o...

Best Spam Title of the Day

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'You Have Won Islamic Lottery' Muslim tradition doesn't allow gambling and lotteries.

MBA vs Master of Science in Finance

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High Powered Expert Committee Report on Mumbai - An International Financial Centre , recommends Indian colleges start offtering MSc in Finan...
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Best Search Words of the Day

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'prophecies for future for india' via our blog tracker from India

Science, Brain and other podcasts

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The Neurobiology of Suicide Bioterrorism and your brain Is music the universal language? One person's spoken language might sound like g...

Norwegian Commission on Low Emissions

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'necessary, feasible, and not impossibly expensive.' Another national report on becoming a low-emission society - the commission was...
Saturday, May 19, 2007

Godfather IV

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I was shocked after reading the following testimony of James Comey- pity the American democracy; COMEY: I raced to the hospital room, entere...

Quotes to Discuss

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" In democracies the main alternative to majority rule is not dictatorship, but markets ."- Bryan Caplan, The Myth of the Rationa...

Where Inflation is the Opposition

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Zimbabwe's inflation watch; Year-on-year inflation rose 1,500 points in April to 3,714 per cent from 2, 200 per cent in March. President...

Killer Toothpastes

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" Diethylene glycol , a poisonous ingredient in some antifreeze, has been found in 6,000 tubes of toothpaste in Panama, and customs off...

Credit Rating Worries

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Per Kurowski , a former ED of World Bank is doing CFA exams and wonders; Explain whether you agree or disagree with the following statement...

Peter Eigen in Africa

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A German TV report profiling Peter Eigen's recent work on natural resource transparency; "Peter Eigen, former head of anti-corrupti...
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Fiscal Transparency Initiatives

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Manual on Fiscal Transparency , IMF (revised April 2007) Revised Guide on Resource Revenue Transparency OECD Best Practices for Budget Trans...
Friday, May 18, 2007

Quote of the Day

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"If they fuck with me or Shaha, I have enough on them to fuck them too." - Paul Wolfowitz, former President of World Bank (see ann...

Premier on Islamic Finance

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A new working paper from the IMF- The Economics of Islamic Finance and Securitization by Andreas Jobst; Summary: Islamic lending transaction...

Art Book Recommendation

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THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS; The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism By Ross King Related; In Salon Revolution, Manet and the I...

This and That

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Prostitution Insurance by Arnold Kling; A few economists argued that Americans ought to try to get over their discomfort with paying for se...

To Prevent Heart Disease, Clean your Teeth

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We now know that oral health is connected with diabetes, and prematurely born low-birthweight babies, and the latest discovery is that peri...

Iraq Economy Watch

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"However, a surprise jump in inflation from 32 percent at end-2005 to 65 percent a year later raised serious concerns (see Chart 1). T...

The Prophet of Innovation Podcast

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Interview with Thomas K. McCraw author of Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction . "Schumpeter had given out...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

When doctors tell stories

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" The whole edifice of medical training is based on subterfuge. I know I'm not just an extra set of hands. Otherwise, I'd never...

Wikipedia of Life

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"Many of the world’s leading scientific institutions today announced the launch of the Encyclopedia of Life , an unprecedented global e...

Open Economy Macroeconomics in Developing Countries

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Parts of a draft of a textbook by Prof. Carlos A. Végh is available online- this draft deserves more wider discussion and need to be used mo...

World's Abortion Facts

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"Over 60% of the world's 6.5 billion people now live in countries where abortion is generally allowed, and a quarter where it is ba...
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Science Podcast- Gravitational Waves

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"The rather un-poetically named star SN 2006gy is roughly 150 times the size of our sun. Last week it went supernova, creating the brig...
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Too much Multivitamin can kill you?

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A study in nearly 300,000 men showed taking multivitamins more than seven times a week increased the risk of advanced and fatal prostate can...

Narcotics 101

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So far this year, about 20,000 acres have been destroyed, just a fraction of the record 407,000 acres planted with opium poppy, according to...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Podcast of the Day-Infotopia

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Discussion with Cass Sunstein at Econ Talk. Related; Deliberation and Infotopia Cass Sunstein’s “Infotopia” Infotopia: How Many Minds Produc...

Jailed for 1933 years

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A Spanish anaesthetist with hepatitis C has been sentenced to nearly 2,000 years in prison for infecting hundreds of patients with the viru...

Freak Weather

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Four Villages Hit By Tidal Waves In Aceh Mauritius- Six missing after freak waves ; Mauritius weather services reported waves of larger than...
Monday, May 14, 2007

I, Coffee

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"Over the past decade the price of raw coffee has fallen by two thirds - while the market for take-away coffees has trebled, from $30 b...

Iraq Quote of the Day

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I noticed the mother attempting to breast feed her little baby and yet the baby continued to cry. [The interpreter] who is a certified and w...

China’s “Missing Girls”—Son Preference or Hepatitis B Infections?

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A research brief from World Bank; The imbalance of sex ratios among children and the associated human and social implications has received ...

Global Politics in a Complex Age

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Podcast of the Day- Jeffrey Sachs final Reith Lecture. Listen or read the transcript .

How the Mobile Phone brought down the price of Fish

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The Economist summarises Robert Jensen's "The Digital Provide: Information (technology), market performance and welfare in the Sout...
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London to issue sharia complaint debt?

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The government is looking into issuing its first shariah-compliant bond in a bid to boost London's position as a centre for Islamic fina...

History Podcast of the Day

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On 1 September 1851 the poet Matthew Arnold was on his honeymoon. Catching a ferry from Dover to Calais, he sat down and worked on a poem th...

When vibrators threaten Military

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"Small, egg-shaped and promising 'divine' vibrations, a UK sex toy has been deemed a threat to Cyprus's national security. ...