The Economist

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• Book Review: Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  We all have a friend (perhaps you are the friend) who conveniently uses capitalism as the prevailing reasons for all of societies woes. Why blame poverty on dozens of complex historical, political, cultural and geographical causes when we can just point our finger at someone driving a BMW and say “It’s their ...
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• What Came First: The Federal Reserve Or Economic Bubbles? A Brief History Of The Federal Reserves Creation

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  A fantastic history of the reasons for, and the creation of, the Federal Reserve, courtesy of Murray Rothbard and our friends at Mises Institute , with the article originally appearing in Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics , Vol. 2, No. 3 (Fall 1999), pp. 3–51. It is also reprinted in A History of Money and ...
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• On style in the ’00s: “Defining the Noughties”

  
  Tiffany B. Brown — Authority: 422
  But the hoodie belonged to the Noughties. I don’t believe it was just about the ASBO generation hiding their faces from CCTV, either. It’s more practical than that. If you spend all your time hanging around on the street in a coldish, wettish country, a hood will keep you warm, and stops the rain spoiling your ...
  21 hours ago

• The Economist: Total Factor Productivity is China’s Secret Sauce

  
  The Reformed Broker — Authority: 641
  In the latest issue of The Economist , we get a great article about why Productivity Growth is perhaps the single most important gauge of an economy’s strength.  More importantly, we read about Total Factor Productivity , a measure by which China leaves everyone in the dust. Here’s what it’s all about… ...
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• Brazil takes off – The Economist

  
  Eyes On Brazil — Authority: 125
  The Economist came out with a 14-page report on Brazil and here’s the cover with Christ as a rocket. “WHEN, back in 2003, economists at Goldman Sachs bracketed Brazil with Russia, India and China as the economies that would come to dominate the world, there was much sniping about the B in the BRIC acronym. ...
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• The Economist: interpret your world through SMS

  
  Bhatnaturally — Authority: 426
  Saw a new hoarding for The Economist. It had an intriguing visual – a silhouette of a whale, with a visual of a bowl with chopsticks inside. Inside the bowl was the outline of a factory. The call for action asked you to interpret the visual by sending an SMS. Nice. The interpret the world campaign is being brought ...
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• ECON STUFF: The Economist – Brazil Takes Off

  
  Expat American Living in Brazil — Authority: 121
  Brazil Takes Off Now the risk for Latin America’s big success story is hubris Interesting article the gives a summary of how Brazil got where it is and the obstacles it faces to get where it wants.  There are two links to other articles on Brazil that should also be read. Go to Article Posted in ECON ...
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• The Lost Decade

  
  The Art Neuro Weblog — Authority: 126
  On The Same Track For 17 years after the property bubble burst in Japan in 1991, most of the OECD critics have been on a hand-wringing about the Japanese economy. They’re putting out stimulus measures that won’t help, they’re adding massive debt, they’re not expanding domestic consumption (read buying ...
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• Segmenting Relationships

  
  Commitment Matters — Authority: 119
  As The Economist points out, market segmentation is a topic of growing interest and sophistication (see Segmentation ). Traditionally, it is the process by which we slice ‘markets’ into different types, in order to improve services and increase revenues. However, the technique is increasingly used more broadly by ...
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• The History of The Economist Magazine

  
  All About Music and Jazz — Authority: 129
  The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in an office in the City of Westminster, London. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September’43. While The Economist calls itself a “newspaper”, each ...
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• The Economist: a white-on-red poster, finally!

  
  Bhatnaturally — Authority: 426
  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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• The Economist: Pressure peers

  
  Ads of the World — Authority: 720
  Pressure peers Advertising Agency: Ogilvy, Singapore Creative Director: Mike Sutcliffe Art Director: Mo Chong Copywriter: Greg Rawson Published: October 2009
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• The Economist: Bassim Khoury at J Street

  
  PalCast — Authority: 120
  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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• The Economist: Avi Shlaim on Israel and Palestine

  
  PalCast — Authority: 120
  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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• Rewatching LOST: 4.03 “The Economist”

  
  Approaching Lost — Authority: 431
  The fourth member of the Oceanic 6 is revealed when Sayid strikes a bargain with Frank to visit the freighter, but to accomplish this, he’ll need to reach out to a distrustful Locke. Written by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz Directed by Jack Bender At the site where Frank landed the ...
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• The History of The Economist Magazine

  
  eTrades.net — Authority: 439
  The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in an office in the City of Westminster, London. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843. While The Economist calls itself a “newspaper”, each ...
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• Kal Economist cartoon

  
  Sketchblog — Authority: 409
  Here’s this week’s editorial cartoon from The Economist .  I enjoyed getting the three caricatures in this drawing.  After some false starts I think I am beginning to get the feel for Ahmadinejahd’s face now.
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• Future of Media

  
  Barb's Blog — Authority: 130
  Saw this on Rodney’s site, and thought to share it here at Barb’s Blog too.Future of media: Changing times, changing rapidly!
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• "All of this suggests that although digital media is clearly supplanting everything analog, digital..."

  
  c0wb0yz Lives ! — Authority: 437
  “All of this suggests that although digital media is clearly supplanting everything analog, digital will not necessarily destroy analog. A better word might be displace. And The Economist’s success holds a number of lessons for dead-tree revanchists on how to manage this displacement. […] True, The Economist ...
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• Comment just submitted to the Economist Article: HOT AIR

  
  Materials Science and Engineering Defined — Authority: 413
  To quote the recent Nature Editorial that I blogged ,"The public reception of scientific ideas depends largely on two factors: 1. peoples ability to grasp factual information and 2. the cultural lens through which that information is filtered." Admittedly factual data is in no short supply from UNFCC. The graph in ...
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