August 2008
161 posts
Mercatus Center at George Mason University - A... →
In the almost three years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast region of the United States, scholars, policy makers, and concerned citizens have been working to understand what exactly…
Shawn Fremstad - The Ideology and Politics of... →
While useful in medicine, where the term “evidence-based” originatedâevidence-based medicine refers to using the current, best scientific evidence in making decisions about, and setting guidelines…
Stephan Klasen - Journalism and science: Hepatitis... →
Robert Barro and Steven Levitt, in their role as popular columnists, promoted a Harvard graduate studentâs article which refuted Amartya Senâs claim that discrimination accounted for the 100…
Democracy and accountability: The perverse effects... →
The democratic peace â the regularity that democracies do not go to war with each other â is one of the most robust findings in political science. This column presents recent research showing…
Barry Eichengreen - History’s lessons on recession... →
Policy makers must learn from history, but they should know which historical episodes to look to. Central bankers seem to have been focusing on the 1930s, but here one of the worldâs leading…
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Jan Jörnmark, Ãvergivna platser//Abandoned Places. 30/8-5/10 2008. fotogalleriet [format]
Kulturhuset Mazetti
Friisgatan 15 B
SE-214 21 Malmö.
YouTube Comment Snob →
YouTube Comment Snob is a Firefox extension that filters out undesirable comments from YouTube comment threads. You can choose to have any of the following rules mark a comment for removal: (JC’s…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-24) →
Bob Dylan
Saint Etienne
BBC Radio 4
Feist
Herman D. Koppel
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Pew Research Center: Podcasts Proliferate, But Not... →
“I consider my iPhone a “tinytop computer that can also send and receive...”
– Guy Kawasaki. Now if only Telia DK had a sensible data plan…
Futurese (JBR Precoglang) →
But apart from that… what might the language actually look like in a thousand years time?
Lost America Night Photography →
Medium Lobster: Your guide to America's next vice... →
Does CBS News mean it? →
Mark Liberman discusses CBS’s “analysis” of Hillary Clinton’s performance.
Q: How do you know when a network co-anchor is bullshitting?
A: Their lips are moving.
“There’s competition now and competition does amazing things.”
– Matt Rosoff, Directions on Microsoft, about IE8.
Arbejdsmarkedskommissionen: Oplæg til trepartsmøde... →
“FriendFeed … the platform of choice for the web’s least interesting...”
– Merlin Mann, 43 Folders.
De Økonomiske Råd - Vismænd: Alle skal spare op... →
BÃ¥de den høje dækningsgrad og den høje beskatning tilskynder fremtidens ældre til tidligere tilbagetrækning og kan forstærke det fald i arbejdsudbuddet, der følger af den fremtidige…
De Økonomiske Råd - Miraklet på det danske... →
Hvis vi vil lære af erfaringerne fra de senere Ã¥rs succes med flexicuritymodellen, bør dagpengeperioden forkortes fra 4 til 2½ Ã¥r for at reducere den ledighed, der mÃ¥ forventes i de kommende…
US Census Bureau - Income, Poverty and Health... →
Food that eats itself →
Just wonderful!
Tumblr’s new dashboard looks really nice, actually.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Plato's Allegory of... →
Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2008 →
FT.com | The Economists’ Forum | Pranab Bardhan -... →
But the relationship between authoritarianism or democracy and development is not so simple. Authoritarianism is neither necessary nor sufficient for economic development. That it is not necessary is…
NBER - Is the Washington Consensus Dead? →
We find evidence that a specific treatment, liberalizing tariffs on imported capital and intermediate goods, did lead to faster GDP growth, and by a margin consistent with theory (about 1 percentage…
Pew Research Center: A Closer Look at the Parties... →
This report provides a detailed breakdown of party identification trends from 2004 to 2008, along with demographic profiles of Democrats and Republicans. These analyses are based on summary data of…
Routledge 2008 Election Review - Incisive,... →
The folks posting on the site include Routledge authors who bring special focus to these issues.
The subprime turmoil: What’s old, what’s new, and... →
This column explains why market actors made unrealistic assumptions about mortgage-backed securities and how various regulatory policies exacerbated the problem. The crisis will necessitate changes…
Pew Research Center: More Americans Question... →
In short, the change of mind about the role of religious institutions in politics is most apparent among people who are most concerned about the very issues that churches and other houses of worship…
“Most people don’t have anything to gain from taking a survey.”
– Adam Berinsky at The Monkey Cage.
“Microsoft’s hiring of a celebrity who peaked back in the 1990s is a perfect...”
– Joey deVilla considers Microsoft’s new choice of spokesperson.
Plugin WordPress bhCalendarchives « burningHat →
bhCalendarchives est un plugin pour WordPress permettant dâafficher vos archives sous forme de tableau mensuel, les années en ordonnées et les mois en abscisses âà la façon de…
Politikblogs.at →
Politikblogs.at ist eine unabhängige Ãbersicht auf alle Weblogs und Podcasts rund um das aktuelle politische Geschehen in Ãsterreich. Die Inhalte werden automatisch syndiziert und alle 60 Minuten…
Marginal Revolution: Top economic misconceptions... →
PhDinHistory: Spousal/Partner Hiring in History →
When history professors were asked whether they and their partner teach in the same or related departments, about 26 percent of men and about 40 percent of women said this was the case.
Maybe Microsoft Makes Them →
coffeesounds:
(A customer has no power to a CD-ROM drive and has a disc stuck inside.)
Me: “Okay, here’s what you have to do. You need to find yourself a paperclip and unbend it a bit, so you have something to…
Perfect. Just perfect. (You’ll have to follow the link to get the punchline)
And once you've worked your way through the 60... →
Dansuenza hedder faktisk choreomani →
clausd:
Det mest berømte klip fra Poul Nesgaard og Thomas Windings børneprogram Op På Ørerne Vi Er Kørende må være den sekvens hvor Winding fortæller Nesgaard om sygdommen dansuenza, der får de sygdomsramte…
Bente Larsen fra Als var vist det ulykkelige offer.
“Making the case for market reform has to be done carefully and slowly, with no...”
– Daniel Davis. The dsquared one, not the dogging one.
“You’re telling me that 67 of the world’s most expensive photojournalists are...”
– Robert Scoble wonders if traditional media have set the right priorities.