37 days ago by Nicola Griffith

I read All Day Permanent Red when it first came out in 2003 (or perhaps it was when it first came out in this country the year after). It's brilliant poetry. Here's what I said about it then: [Logue]'s an English poet and occasional screenwriter who has reimagined the first battles of Homer's Iliad. ...

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37 days ago by Amol Agrawal

There has been a lot of discussion around these economies. Zsolt Darvas of Bruegel in this terrific paper helps understand the differences between the three economies: Three small, open European economies — Iceland, Ireland and Latvia – experienced serious trouble during the global financial crisis. ...

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38 days ago by IDEAbuilder

As Digital Fabrication gains increased media coverage it is great to see the Economist offering increased coverage. See the complete Digital Fabrication index here. The " Print me a Stradivarius - How a new manufacturing technology will change the world" cover article published in February 2011 was ...

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38 days ago by B.B

by RUD66 Opinion | Peter Praet: Belgian ECB’s chief economist is good for Europe What looked at first after a defeat for Germany, is a wise decision: Joerg Asmussen readability=”62.5799357945″> has the right job at the ECB

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38 days ago by Ted Eytan

I found this article in the Economist very timely in the context of a recent experience I had with a well known peer reviewed journal (more on that below). Economics blogs: A less dismal debate | The Economist - Research (by two blogging economists at the World Bank) suggests that academic papers ci ...

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38 days ago by Amol Agrawal

A nice paper by four econs - Soohyung Lee, Muriel Niederle, Hye-Rim Kim and Woo-Keum Kim. They say to better one’s chances of getting accepted for a date via internet, attach an e-rose/virtual rose with the proposal: In order to improve efficiency, several markets have mechanisms in place that allow ...

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38 days ago by ZeroHedge.com

Simply put, “it does not last for ever” should be ringing in the ears of every investor in the world with more than a few millisecond return horizon. And neither do any and all chartalist conventions which rely on the articial construct of reserve permanence, for one simple reason – being artificial ...

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39 days ago by calculi

One of the best read long article in recent time on present stage of economics. A must read! Excerpt: …neo-chartalism, … Continue reading »

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39 days ago by businessweek

January 03, 2012, 7:02 PM EST By Craig Torres and Scott Lanman (Updates with quote on Bernanke transparency in sixth pararagaph.) Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve officials will start announcing their own forecasts for the central bank’s key interest rate in the latest step in Chairman Ben S. B ...

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39 days ago by David Mixner

Most people would be surprised to learn that one of the hardest hit states in the recession, Michigan, has the same GDP as Taiwan and the same number of people as Chad in Africa. Or how about the entire population of Mongolia would be the same as Utah's? A year ago The Economist did a chart comparin ...

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