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• The Economist: a white-on-red poster, finally!

  
  Bhatnaturally — Authority: 424
  This is from Singapore and not UK. That’s perhaps the reason why this new poster for The Economist still follows the ‘old’ format of clever headline, white on red. It feels good to see some new work in this format, though. Via Ads of the World. Agency: Ogilvy, Singapore. I am not a big fan of the new ...
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• Roundup: Caught up

  
  Managing Leadership — Authority: 91
  Continuing from Friday’s post, today we are going to finish up reviewing some of the blog and press activity of the past few weeks which touches on themes we expect to address here soon. Again, virtually all of this material is on my daily reading list, and I mention that here because I think it would make an ...
  11 hours ago

• The Economist: Pressure peers

  
  Ads of the World — Authority: 694
  Pressure peers Advertising Agency: Ogilvy, Singapore Creative Director: Mike Sutcliffe Art Director: Mo Chong Copywriter: Greg Rawson Published: October 2009
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• Gender Bias Bingo

  
  Economix — Authority: 736
  A provocative new Web site invites people to enter their experiences in a game that echoes recent research on gender bias.
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• Understanding Banking- Mechanism Design Approach

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 502
  In 2007 , when Riksbank Committee awarded the Economics prize to Mechanism Design Theory, I realized there is something like this in economics.   Adam Smith’s classical metaphor of the invisible hand refers to how the market, under ideal conditions, ensures an efficient allocation of scarce resources. But in ...
  17 hours ago

• Promotion and Protection of Chinas Culture: Hard Copyright For Soft Power

  
  IP Dragon ????? — Authority: 422
  In The Economist special report on China and the US called Overkill where the author James Miles postulates the opinion that China is piling up more weapons than it appears to need, Mr Miles also writes about the need for China to develop its soft power: " Soft power was mentioned for the first time by a Chinese ...
  18 hours ago

• US-China Green Technology Transfer Strained By Circular Reasoning

  
  IP Dragon ????? — Authority: 422
  Last month (October 22nd 2009) The Economist had a special report about the relationship between China and the US. In the article The price of cleanliness the circular reasoning is pointed out that makes solving the environmental challenge in China very difficult: " Technology transfer will also be a thorny ...
  18 hours ago

• Add Meir Kohn’s works to your reading list

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 502
  I don’t remember which blog/article pointed to a paper by Meir Kohn . He is an eco professor at Dartmouth who has done tonnes of work on financial history to understand whether it helps in economic growth. What is amazing is his phd was in Operations Research. He took up economic/financial history as he was ...
  20 hours ago

• Lovesystems in the Economist

  
  Thoughtmagnet — Authority: 91
  Well, this came as quite a surprise, but the Economist just published an article mentioning Lovesystems , entitled “ Dating in the Downturn “. All in all, it takes a pretty businesslike approach to the topic, comparing Lovesystems to eHarmony and Match.com, but noting: …online giants are missing a trick ...
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• The Economist: Bassim Khoury at J Street

  
  PalCast — Authority: 122
  The former Palestinian economic minister attends a conference of American Jewish activists and says the atmosphere but not the policy have changed. This program was produced by The Economist. For more information, visit: http://economist.com
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• ‘Margaret Thatcher’s son became South African spy’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov 8 (IANS) Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s son became a spy for South Africa in a bid to avoid being prosecuted for his alleged involvement in a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea, a newspaper reported Sunday.Sir Mark Thatcher has already been accused publicly by British mercenary Simon ...
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• U.S. Job Growth Likely by December

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 681
  The Good News Economist submits: Now that the US recovery is in full swing, many continue to asked "when will this newfound economic growth produce new jobs?" This past week all eyes were on job numbers. And there were some encouraging signs. Complete Story »
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• British PM revives global tax idea at G20 meet

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov 7 (IANS) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Saturday resurrected the idea of the international community imposing a global tax on banks as a repayment for the billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money they have received from governments.The idea is said to mimic the so-called “Tobin tax” - a 0.1 ...
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• Intrinsic Motivation vs. Rewards

  
  BriefCoachingSolutions — Authority: 99
  In preparation for this event , today I was reviewing some literature about positive reinforcement and motivation . Anybody interested in psychology knows that there is a raging ongoing debate about it. Even though the battle lines are not so clearly drawn, for the sake of simplicity we can say that on the one ...
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• The Economist: Avi Shlaim on Israel and Palestine

  
  PalCast — Authority: 122
  A noted Israeli revisionist historian calls Israel the stumbling block to peace since 1967. This program was produced by The Ecnonomist for October 14, 2009. For more information, visit: http://economist.com
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• Basics of Corruption

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 502
  I came across this wonderful paper (HT Gulzar) on corrpution from Jakob Svesson   This paper will discuss eight frequently asked questions about public corruption: (1) What is corruption? (2) Which countries are the most corrupt? (3) What are the common characteristics of countries with high corruption? (4) ...
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• Probability of deflation in US has become fairly small

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 502
  In this new short note from FRBSF economist analyses inflation expectations in US. Predicting the course of inflation is one of the most important challenges facing monetary policymakers. Useful aids to such prediction are the measures of expected future inflation obtained from prices in government bond markets. ...
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• Why a ‘pointless’ tax cut really counted

  
  Tim Harford — Authority: 537
  Dear Economist, When the Chancellor of the Exchequer reduced value-added tax from 17.5 per cent to 15 per cent as an incentive for consumers to spend, there was a widespread view that the reduction was too small to be of use. Now that we are approaching the time when VAT returns to 17.5 per cent, some retailers say ...
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• How a celebrity chef turned into a social scientist

  
  Tim Harford — Authority: 537
  I do not count myself as one of Jamie Oliver’s army of fans, but after looking at the chirpy chef’s antics through the eyes of an economist, I am starting to acquire a grudging respect for him. Yes, the recipe books are all but unreadable, but his “school dinners” campaign has been surprisingly successful. ...
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