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economics

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Inauspicious News For Our Economy

  • Sam Riley
  • August 29, 2011
The whole system of American outsourcing has rendered our industry incapable of producing the next technological innovation, which unfortunately is the key to reconstructing our economy. One example of this…
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Megatrends Now and Later

  • Sam Riley
  • August 25, 2011
It seems like every year there are economic predictions and warnings about the impending doom that is coming or the next big thing to look out for, but what became…
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The Limits of NGOs

  • Sam Riley
  • July 19, 2011
Internationally, labor unions have a weaker presence. Making up for this slack are the non-governmental organizations that support health initiatives, women’s rights and ebb environmental degradation, etc. The presence of…
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Creating Jobs

  • Sam Riley
  • June 10, 2011
The Atlantic discusses job creation in both words and graphs. Derek Thompson breaks down the problem, explains where the jobs are hiding and tells us how we can grow, economically.…
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Not the Greatest Villains Then Living in the World

  • Jeremy Hatch
  • September 22, 2009
The other week, The New Yorker published an excellent article by Caleb Crain about the peculiar economics and politics of life aboard a pirate ship in the 17th and 18th…
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A Brief History of Economics

  • Brian Spears
  • September 5, 2009
Two weeks in a row now I’m doing a blog post on the upcoming feature story in the NY Times Magazine. This won’t become a habit–they get plenty of attention…
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How Judges Think

  • Glenna Goldis
  • February 16, 2009
When it comes to trying to understand people, Richard Posner is an American Sigmund Freud.
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