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• Video Resources on Rising Inequality

  
  Economics — Authority: 123
  In this blog entry we will be bringing together some short video resources that might be useful when teaching and studying the economics of inequality. Please do add some more resources using the comment box at the bottom and we can add them to the listing. OECD - Trends in Inequality over the last 20 Years TED: ...
  6 days ago

• Look How Much Better Workers Have It In Germany Than In America

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 148
  by Gus Lubin America is failing to compete not only with Chinese workers in sweatshops but also with German workers leading pretty good lives. The LA Times’ Don Lee examines how a German couple with a combined income of $40,000 has a “higher standard of living than Americans who have twice that income.” ...
  6 days ago

• Unit 4 Macro: Russia Joins the WTO

  
  Economics — Authority: 123
  I am using Russia’s entry to the World Trade Organisation in my teaching on international trade and development this term. It appear to be a significant moment for the global economy. Russia is the last member of the Group of 20 major economies to join, after China gained membership in 2001. Progress towards ...
  1 week ago

• Quotation of the Day…

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 657
  … is from page 44 of Liza Picard’s fascinating account of life in mid-18th-century London, Dr. Johnson’s London : The kind of space we take as normal, at least separating children from parents at night, and having a room for sitting and watching the television and doing homework, was a luxury only the ...
  1 week ago

• Some Links

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 657
  The always-enlightening Max Borders offers his thoughts on the origins of envy . Here’s Ross Kaminsky on creative destruction . Bryan Caplan optimistically reads Charles Murray’s latest book . Most people – mercantilism seemingly being the default “theory” guiding the notions of economically untutored ...
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• Quotation of the Day…

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 657
  … is from page 18 of Mark Kishlansky’s engaging 1996 book, A Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603-1714 : The vitatlity of growing market-places [in 17th-century Britain] for agricultural surplus meant that local communities were no longer compelled to diversify their output.  They could specialize in what best ...
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• Beyond the Bike - The Importance of Remittances

  
  Economics — Authority: 123
  Joseph is 29 years old and makes a living selling vehicle parts in the dusty trucker town of Igawu in Southern Tanzania. When he approached me during my breakfast and flashed 2 fresh $100 bills, I was naturally interested to know where they came from. I offered him a ride north to find out… Show me the money…. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quotation of the Day…

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 657
  … is from page 34 of Will and Ariel Durant’s 1963 book The Age of Louis XIV ; Marie Therese was Louis XIV’s wife: She [Marie Therese] gave him six children, of whom only one, the Dauphin, survived infancy.
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• Newsnight on rebalancing the UK economy

  
  Economics — Authority: 123
  Last night’s edition of Newsnight should be required viewing for all AS and A level economists - and it is a huge shame that it is only available on i-player for another 7 days . Introduced on the shock news that even Tesco is vulnerable to the downturn, it included reports from Andrew Verity looking at whether ...
  2 weeks ago

• We have to abandon the idea that endless population growth is a good thing

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 148
  
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