October 2008
101 posts
Aftale om finansiel stabilitet på pensionsområdet... →
(Ãkonomi- og Erhvervsministeriet og Forsikring & Pension)
I was wrong! Here is a Pumpkinman. Sort of! →
Helle Lykke Nielsen - Engelsk er ikke nok! →
Finanzkrise: Welche Gefahren drohen nun? |... →
Das Geldwesen ist noch lange nicht gerettet. Eine Ãbersicht über die gröÃten Gefahren, die Banken, Anlegern und der Weltwirtschaft jetzt drohen
A call for a European Financial Stability Fund |... →
Until the EU develops a unified market for bonds denominated in euro and backed jointly by EU member states â or, better, by euro-area member states â its claim for the status of reserve currency…
The economics of labour market intermediation |... →
The labour market suffers from asymmetric information, coordination, and collective action failures. This column explains how labour market intermediaries, such as online job boards and centralised…
Iceland’s banking collapse: Predicable end and... →
In the first half of 2008, Buiter and Sibert were invited to study Icelandâs financial problems. They identified the âvulnerable quartetâ of (1) a small country with (2) a large banks, (3) its…
Poverty does not breed civil war | vox -... →
These results indicate that policies that are directed to increase per capita income will not have any effect in reducing the probability of civil war. Since the general consensus in the economic…
What does a credit crunch look like? - Tyler Cowen →
The upside to allergies: cancer prevention →
In an attempt to explain these contradictions, the Cornell team reexamined nearly 650 previous studies from the past five decades. They found that inverse allergy-cancer associations are far more…
Aftale om satspuljen på det sociale område... →
If you read Scandinavian, this is pretty hilarious
Sterling og Merlin - hvornår Magasin? →
clausd:
Det er hårdt at være overpumpet islandsk bobledetailhandelsopkøb i Danmark her i efteråret. Sterling og Merlin er gået. Hvornår går Magasin?
Er Illum ikke også islandsk ejet?
Update: Jo.
www.politi.dk - Redegørelse om politireformen →
A face by any other name: Seeing racial bias →
If Barack Obama had taken his mother’s surname and kept his childhood nickname, American voters might literally see “Barry Dunham” as a quite different presidential candidate, a new study suggests. A…
Bright Light, Dim City - The Atlantic (October 23,... →
If London is a frenetic multicultural crossroads in which the English themselves are thoroughly dissipated, Stockholm feels more like a village square where practically everyone is a Swede.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-26) →
The Arcade Fire
BBC Radio 4
Naked
Dale Willman
Sam Roberts of The New York Times
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
HAL NEIDZVIECKI - Facebook in a Crowd →
Youâve got friends; just donât expect to meet them.
Josep Colomer - Frustrated Political "Modernity"... →
I will focus here on a few basic elements of political âmodernityâ which imply the building of a sovereign nation state with representative government. There may be several factors to explain the…
Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty... →
Growing Unequal? brings together a range of analyses on the distribution of economic resources in OECD countries. The evidence on income distribution and poverty covers, for the first time, all 30…
China Brief from the Jamestown Foundation →
Global Crisis Presents Challenges and Opportunities for China’s Economic Reform
Economist - The incredible shrinking funds →
High borrowing and the credit crisis are bad enough for hedge funds. Panicky clients are worse
Democratisation and growth: A within-country... →
While there is significant heterogeneity across countries (Persson and Tabellini, 2007), our results suggest that, if anything, the average effect of successful democratic transitions on growth is…
How FDR saved captialism in eight days. - By David... →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-19) →
Saint Etienne
Naked
Ambitious Lovers
TV-2
Phoenix
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Michael Mandel - How to Get Growth Back on Track -... →
The bursting of the credit bubble suggests that the U.S. and global economies have a growth problem as well as a debt problem. According to the official numbers, economic growth in the U.S. has…
Selfish and Prospective: Theory and Evidence of... →
Hur själviska är svenska väljare? Och hur viktiga är vallöften jämfört med genomförd politik? Dessa frÃ¥gor är lika centrala i den akademiska forskningen som i massmediernas politiska…
rsync →
Simen Gaure, Knut Røed, Lars Westlie - The Impacts... →
We examine empirically the impacts of labor market policies â in terms of unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) â on the duration and outcome of job search and on…
Die Zeit placed these articles next to one another in my rss-reader:
Neoliberalismus - Was bleibt vom Ideologie?
Sterben - Wie fühlt es sich an, wenn der Tod naht?
Scott Keeter: Poll Power →
New Hampshire gave new life to many nagging doubts about polling and criticisms of its role in American politics. Are polls really accurate? Can surveys of small groups of people give a true reading…
WP: What Went Wrong →
How did the world’s markets come to the brink of collapse? Some say regulators failed. Others claim deregulation left them handcuffed. Who’s right? Both are. This is the story of how Washington…
Enik Rising: The R Word →
Could we be seeing a realignment this year? My impression is that the electorate isn’t really realigning on any new set of issues. Republicans and Democrats largely seem to believe what they have for…
The European response to the crisis: Not quite... →
This column discusses the need for a Euro-area bank supervisory authority, as financial integration has outpaced regulatory integration.
So typically Apple: People want two buttons. Apple respond by giving us none.
J Bradford DeLong: Will partially nationalising US... →
The Bush administration, having entered office as social conservatives, leaves office as conservative socialists, proprietors of the most sudden large expansion of the state’s role in the US economy…
Kommuneskatter 2009 på plads →
Kenneth Arrow: The financial turmoil is a... →
The root of this financial crisis is the tension between wanting to spread risk and not understanding its consequences
Effect Measure : A rant about science educators →
Scientific literacy is about teaching the content of modern science. That naturally entails the rudiments of experimental method, logic, the uses of observation and sources of random and systematic…
Ian Buruma - Fear and Loathing in Europe →
The rhetoric of xenophobia and chauvinism is unpleasant, and, in a country with Austriaâs past, even alarming. But the new populism is not yet undemocratic, or even anti-democratic. The phrase most…
I think we have a problem with the weather forecasts - yesterday is was supposed to be rainy so I took the bus. And it was dry.
Today it was supposed to be dry…
What will it take to shatter the glass ceiling?... →
Females and minorities may be underrepresented at top jobs due to a sticky floor rather than a glass ceiling. This column says that if females and minorities face greater obstacles in signalling…
The Prize in Economic Sciences 2008 →
This yearâs Laureate is awarded the Prize for his research on international trade and economic geography. By having shown the effects of economies of scale on trade patterns and on the location of…
