Economics
epub |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Hanington, Ian, Suzuki, David & Ian Hanington

Technological fixes can have serious consequences IN 1962, RACHEL CARSON galvanized a global environmental movement with her book Silent Spring. Before she wrote about the unexpected consequences of pesticides—including bioaccumulation ...
( Category: Economics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John Nichols [Nichols, John and McChesney, Robert W.]

ELECTION COVERAGE IN RECENT TIMES If we begin with the idea that the election coverage in the partisan era tended to be rich and engaging because the broader political journalism ...
( Category: Elections March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Michael J. Casey [Casey, Michael J.]

The Circular Relationship “I feel like a weatherman in California. Every day is sunny,” said U.S. government bond strategist William O’Donnell when I visited RBS’s Stamford trading floor on November ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Vanity Fair

‘There are going to be a hell of a lot of layoffs. Courses will be cut. Class sizes will get bigger,” conceded a Harvard insider, who, like every other administrator ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-08 | Author:Michael C. Hill

Chapter Six Your Own Opinion or Own Facts? Selective Morality When Johnny Carson left late night television, a three-way ratings battle ensued. Jay Leno and David Letterman continued a much ...
( Category: Economics March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Daniel Stedman Jones [Jones, Daniel Stedman]

To avoid misunderstanding, let me emphasize that by using the term “natural” rate of unemployment, I do not mean to suggest that it is immutable and unchangeable. On the contrary, ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Les Leopold

A blogging colleague who works in the financial industry has come up with his own one-word description of the ultra-competitive world of hedge funds: “Sociopathic.” Do’s and Don’ts Don’t ever ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Bill Clinton [Clinton, Bill]

Click here to view a larger image. (Illustration credit 5.3) On food insecurity, measuring the percentage of people who didn’t have enough money at some time in the last year ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-06 | Author:Alan S. Blinder

VARIETIES OF QUANTITATIVE EASING The Fed’s favorite unconventional weapon has been quantitative easing (QE), a term that encompasses a variety of ways to use the central bank’s balance sheet to ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-12 | Author:Tyler Cowen [Cowen, Tyler]

The Machine’s Place Not many people, from their standpoint as observers or as consumers of culture, want man and machine to converge. It seems that even when the machines are ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Robert Kuttner [Kuttner, Robert]

PART THREE Chapter 7 The Moral Economy of Debt BY NOW, SEVERAL CONCLUSIONS SHOULD be evident. Reckless indebtedness leads to crisis. More often than not, the culprit is debt that ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:Deborah Perry Piscione [Piscione, Deborah Perry]

8THE INVESTORS OF SAND HILL ROAD Highway 280, Exit 24, Menlo Park, California Draper Fisher Jurvetson, otherwise known as DFJ, a venerable venture capital firm in Silicon Valley whose offices ...
( Category: Entrepreneurship March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jagdish Bhagwati

Air Transport Regarding air transport, progress has been notable in the construction of modern airports in New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, and even some smaller towns, such as Jaipur. ...
( Category: Macroeconomics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Deborah Brautigam

Cars, Calf, and Cows The Friendship textile mill is the struggling face of China’s earlier aid system, a relic of 1969, still on life support from the Chinese government forty ...
( Category: Economics March 26,2014 )