Monday, December 24, 2007

The Conscience of a Liberal at Google

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You Tube Interview for the Day

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An interview with anthropologist Clifford Geertz

Health Information

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An interesting old informational video from the US Military; The War on VD

A very bloody Democracy

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A model of African democratization? Election Rules Complicate Kenya Race

The Idea That is America

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More than half the 380 students at this unusual school outside Atlanta are refugees from some 40 countries, many torn by war. The other stud...

Saving the World with Potatoes

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Did you know that next year is the International Year of the Potato designated by UN. Potato Production

The Most Important Lesson of the Year

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The power of humanity to love and care is truly amazing. The following story about an incident from the brutal Bosnian war, is the most movi...

A Merry Christmas

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From The Royal Channel on You Tube

Global Warming and Disease

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As Earth Warms Up, Tropical Virus Moves to Italy I thought it was due to Globalization.

Explainers for the Day

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The Economics of Currency Crises and Contagion: An Introduction Explaining the RAND Experiment Sovereign Wealth Funds: Stumbling Blocks or S...

Podcast of the Day

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William R. Duggan on Strategic Intuition (from Econ Talk) Related Book; Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement

Lecture of the Day- Extremism

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Extremism - Cass R. Sunstein , professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School, will deliver the first Distinguished Lecture of th...

Pakistan Aid Waste

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U.S. Officials See Waste in Pakistan Aid Related; Durrani told FP that Pakistan views most of this money as payment for services rendered as...

Medical Fact of the Day

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In most businesses, customers don’t pay for a vendor’s mistakes. But when hospitals make errors, they charge patients additional money to fi...

Assisted Arranged Marriages

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An Unsuitable Boy Should romance be a prerequisite for marriage? Not in some cultures.

Whither Development Economics

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A recent working paper from World Bank- Early development economics debates revisited Summary: Development economics in its early years crea...

PPP in Cointegrated Panels

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A recent paper from the Fund ; Testing for Purchasing Power Parity in Cointegrated Panels Summary: This paper applies the maximum likelihood...

The Ghost Writers

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Good economists, bad fact-checking ?- I don't think Rodrik should be surprised. Read the following ; In September 2004, Charles Ogletree...
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Sunday, December 23, 2007

Parenting Advice for Economists!

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Steven Levitt and Bryan Caplan needs to see the following TED lecture; Gever Tulley , founder of the Tinkering School , talks about our ne...

A robust critique of the so-called 'economics of happiness'

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In Happiness, Economics and Public Policy , Helen Johns and Paul Ormerod analyse the economic research that underlies politicians’ growing p...

The Math Magician

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Arthur Benjami at TED

Who's going to pay the bill for IMF?

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The income shortfall for FY 2008 is now projected at about SDR 90 million (US$140 million) compared to an initial projection of about SDR 14...

Explainer of the Day

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The NYT doesn't get it on trade
Saturday, December 22, 2007

Assorted

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Teenage Risks, and How to Avoid Them ; For example, a study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, found that teenag...

Brian Levy on Corruption

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Anti-Corruption at World Bank

Another little bit of US History

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A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover , the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspe...

Weird Science on your self

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From the nose to the genitals and back again

A growing public

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Another question from Delong; What reasons are there to think that the role of the federal government will grow further in the next half cen...

A Trade Question to think about?

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From Delong's exams ; Why would an international trade economist like David Ricardo have thought that the United States would and should...
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Blog of the Day

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Mr. Magazine

Weather Insurance for the Apparel Industry

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So the $200 billion American apparel industry, which is filled with esoteric job titles like visual merchandiser and fabric assistant, is ad...

From Marines to Rock Star - Shaggy

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An Aljazeera interview;

The world has about 100 unmarried billionaires

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and other interesting statistics through a grain of rice ; See also there blog Everyone Counts
Thursday, December 20, 2007

Podcasts

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THE FOUR HUMOURS According to an 11th century Arabic book called the Almanac of Health, an old man went to the doctor complaining of a frigi...

A Shocking Headline

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7 School Officials Fired After Shocking Students
Monday, December 17, 2007

New York vs London

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Money Goes Far in New York, if You’re European Related; An Exercise in Sheer Conjecture
Sunday, December 16, 2007

Assorted on Russia

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Garry Kasparov Profile Russian Police Guards in Action Russia: A Winter of Discontent

Free Read

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Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity , William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, and Carl J. Schramm See al...

Are We in a Recession?

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You decide ; You Can Almost Hear It Pop , by Stephen S. Roach The Facts Say No , by Marcelle Chauvet and Kevin Hassett Bet the House on It ,...
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The New York you don't know

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Without Heat in the Bronx, Making Do in the Cold Residents at 1277 Morris Ave. in the Bronx talk about what it's been like living for mo...

Oliver Sacks on Al Jazeera

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Use MindManager to Teach Economics

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An interesting paper; Effectiveness of concept maps in economics: Evidence from Australia and USA by John Marangos and Sean Alleya Abstrac...
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Saturday, December 15, 2007

Adopted and discarded

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A diplomat accused of “dumping” his adopted daughter flew home yesterday after triggering a row about the ethics of Europeans adopting Asian...

Mad about Dogs

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More American households have pets than ever — 68.7 million of them in 2006, according to a new survey by the American Veterinary Medical As...

National Bingo Callers of the Year 2007 competition

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A bit of British Bingo Culture (via Vice Squad )
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Podcasts

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The Sassanian Empire Gregory Clark Calls Technology Key to Modern Economy Allan Meltzer , Says U.S. Fed Is `Giving In' to Pressure Ha-J...

IMF to be rescued by World Bank!

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Thought about it after seeing the following news item- may be it should lease out its buildings to World Bank; New IMF chief plans job cuts ...

Is CAPM Dead?

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From interview with Eugene Fama ; Region: With Kenneth French , you’ve said that the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) developed by John Li...

Assorted

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Is the Fed the new FEMA? Readings on Pakistan Why Pregnant Women Don’t Tip Over Steroids, Gains and Costs Brainman, at Rest in His Oasis Wh...
Friday, December 14, 2007

From World Bank Research

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World Bank Research E-Newsletter - World Development Report 2009 Economic activity becomes increasingly concentrated with development. As t...