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Editorial Reviews John Kay, Financial Times "A new book … coins the phrase "imperfect knowledge economics" to describe this world of fundamental uncertainty." Review . . . sets out an alternative approach to prediction, in which the forecaster recognizes that his model will inevitably be less than perfect.

The NYT’s Adam Liptak has an interesting article on the declining influence of American Supreme Court decisions around the world — and the rising influence of the Supreme Court of Canada. From 1996 to 2000, Canadian opinions were cited twice as often as American ones in New Zealand, for example.

Innovate08 10 September 2008 I was going to blog about the enjoyable day on Monday spent judging the finalists in the Innovate08 competition - focused on innovation across the frontiers of technical and business issues in local government. But one of my fellow judges, Richard Steel, has already done a posting here summarising the event and its outcome.

Minors Courses For Fine Arts At American University In Bulgaria September 10th, 2008 Required Courses (4 courses): ECO 102 Principles of Macroeconomics POS 101 Introduction to Politics POS 102 Introduction to International Relations EUR 212 Introduction to European Integration Elective Courses

Editorial Reviews Book Description In recent years governments have increasingly given their central banks the freedom to pursue policies of price stability. In particular, the German Bundesbank and the U.S. Federal Reserve have been widely considered models of autonomous policymaking.

If affluent children enjoy beautiful campuses, arts programs, interesting literature, modern technology, field trips, carefree recess, and teachers who know them, I suggest that we create such schools for all children. What’s good for the sons and daughters of the billionaires should be good enough the rest of the children, too.

If affluent children enjoy beautiful campuses, arts programs, interesting literature, modern technology, field trips, carefree recess, and teachers who know them, I suggest that we create such schools for all children. What’s good for the sons and daughters of the billionaires should be good enough the rest of the children, too.

Introduction Today’s British social policies are steered by the New Labour Party. It turns out, however, that its policies in general are a product of what is known as the “Third Way”. It is neither the Conservative or the Thatcherite way nor the Labour Party way, but a blend of...

Following my attack on policy freelancers from the Blairite ex-ministerial brigade. I have belatedly caught up with the Compassite-TU policy freelancers demanding a windfall tax. What were they doing at Warwick, one might ask. So I did. My sources were scathing.

Federal Reserve policymakers yesterday (Tuesday) kept the nation’s benchmark interest rate at 2.00% for the second consecutive meeting, although inflation accelerated and the U.S. economy only advanced slowly."Although downside risks to growth remain, the upside risks to inflation are also of