Think your boss will try to keep you if you get a job offer? Think again. Max Roser sur Twitter : "The rising number of equations per paper shows the increasing mathematization of #economics. The use of mathematics in economics and its effect on a scholar's academic career. Espinosa, Miguel and Rondon, Carlos and Romero, Mauricio (2012): The use of mathematics in economics and its effect on a scholar's academic career.
This is the latest version of this item. There has been so much debate on the increasing use of formal mathematical methods in Economics. Although there are some studies tackling these issues, those use either a little amount of papers, a small amount of scholars or cover a short period of time. We try to overcome these challenges constructing a database characterizing the main socio demographic and academic output of a survey of 438 scholars divided into three groups: Economics Nobel Prize winners; scholars awarded with at least one of six prestigious recognitions in Economics; and academic faculty randomly selected from the top twenty Economics departments worldwide. World Economic Forum sur Twitter : "ICYMI: Why #inequality is different in #Japan @ecoyuri #economics #Piketty. Why inequality is different in Japan. TOKYO – Six months after Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century generated so much buzz in the United States and Europe, it has become a bestseller in Japan.
But vast differences between Japan and its developed counterparts in the West, mean that, like so many other Western exports, Piketty's argument has taken on unique characteristics. Piketty's main assertion is that the leading driver of increased inequality in the developed world is the accumulation of wealth by those who are already wealthy, driven by a rate of return on capital that consistently exceeds the rate of GDP growth. Japan, however, has lower levels of inequality than almost every other developed country. Indeed, though it has long been an industrial powerhouse, Japan is frequently called the world's most successful communist country.
My beautiful campus. #CUDenver #Denver #Colorado... United Replaces Unionized Baggage Handlers With Minimum Wage Contractors, Things Instantly Fall Apart. “Free Market” hardliners may not like to hear it, but the old adage is true: “You get what you pay for,” and paying people next-to-nothing to do an extremely labor-intensive job won’t get you many willing applicants.
Nowhere is that more obvious than in Denver right now, where travel-wary passengers getting off their flights are discovering that their checked bags won’t be coming out in a timely fashion, if at all. One survivor told the Denver Post that the situation was so bad in baggage claim that people were on the cusp of rioting. “Ed Tonini of Louisville, Ky., flew to Denver on a United Express flight this week. His small bag, which he checked at the gate, took about 30 minutes to retrieve. But nothing could have prepared him for the baggage claim area, which he said was utter chaos. Two hours to get bags out into baggage claim? Baggage Delays For @united Express At @DENAirport DIA pic.twitter.com/q419KzyyCr— Airline News (@Airline___News) January 5, 2015. The Economics of Seinfeld. Slower but not scary: China’s economy 2014-11-11.
Prisoner's Dilemma In Real Life. Obama's biggest economic policy mistake. Barack Obama has not accomplished nearly as much as his most fervent supporters — or, indeed, the president himself — had hoped he would during the 2008 campaign.
This has led, naturally, to a litany of back-biting complaints about the corruption or incompetence of the president and his team, a storied list of alleged tactical failings or ideological betrayals. The truth is, however, that he has accomplished an enormous amount given the objective structural circumstances of American politics. But as the country waits to hear the latest announcement from the Fed about how rapidly it will end its Quantitative Easing programs, we are witnessing the biggest mistake of Obama's presidency: the systematic neglect of the Federal Reserve and of his ability to influence its course of action.
The team player. Paul Krugman decries the “enormous intellectual failure” of modern economics. In his latest column for the New York Times, award-winning economist and liberal pundit Paul Krugman returns to one of his recurring themes and tries to understand how the field of economics could not only fail to predict the economic catastrophe of 2008, but fail to ensure policymakers in the West responded to it with pro-growth, countercyclical spending.
“[I]t’s important to realize that the enormous intellectual failure of recent years took place at several levels,” Krugman writes. “In what sense did economics go astray?” One of the first places to look, Krugman argues, is at the field’s recent deification of free-market economics and the “neoclassical models” that support its proponents. “[I]dealized models have a useful role to play in economics,” Krugman grants. When it comes to a China growth slowdown, bad news is actually good news. News that Chinese factories are pumping out goods at the slowest pace since the height of the global financial crisis sent share prices and commodities reeling today.
And it wasn’t a blip: power generation fell 0.6% versus Aug. 2013, down from 5.3% growth in July. Finally—some cheery Chinese economic news! Oil Price Plunge? It's The Global Economy, Stupid! Economics isn’t science or literature - Columnists. South Africa News. Marxism: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
More than a century after his death, Karl Marx remains one of the most controversial figures in the Western world.
His relentless criticism of capitalism and his corresponding promise of an inevitable, harmonious socialist future inspired a revolution of global proportions. It seemed that—with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and the spread of communism throughout Eastern Europe—the Marxist dream had firmly taken root during the first half of the twentieth century. That dream collapsed before the century had ended. The people of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, and the USSR rejected Marxist ideology and entered a remarkable transition toward private property rights and the market-exchange system, one that is still occurring. Transformers 4 is a master class in economics. Transformers: Age of Extinction is the fourth Transformers movie made by Michael Bay, and it's inarguably one of the four best Transformers movies Michael Bay has ever made.
Even so, a lot of "critics" seem to have misread the movie entirely. At the New York Times, A.O. Databases. How ISIS is exploiting the economics of Syria's civil war. The guy who beat Eric Cantor penned a scathing, seemingly unpublished book about the economics profession. Blogs.worldbank. Noam Chomsky (2014) "How to Ruin an Economy; Some Simple Ways" Taking-on-adam-smith-and-karl-marx. Photo.
The farm bill: A trillion in the trough. CBO: Obamacare Is A Tax On Work, May Cut Full-Time Workforce By 2.5 Million. Economics Daily Digest: Progressives have a lot to celebrate and fight for. By Rachel Goldfarb, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via email.
US economy grew at surprise 2.8% rate in 3rd quarter. US economy grew at surprise 2.8% rate in 3rd quarter. Market Awaits 'Unprecedented' Reforms In China. Emerging economies: The Great Deceleration. WHEN a champion sprinter falls short of his best speeds, it takes a while to determine whether he is temporarily on poor form or has permanently lost his edge. The same is true with emerging markets, the world economy’s 21st-century sprinters. After a decade of surging growth, in which they led a global boom and then helped pull the world economy forwards in the face of the financial crisis, the emerging giants have slowed sharply. China will be lucky if it manages to hit its official target of 7.5% growth in 2013, a far cry from the double-digit rates that the country had come to expect in the 2000s.
America’s public finances: The Unsteady States of America. Λόγος. "Logic might be imagined to exist independent of writing - syllogisms can be spoken as well as written - but it did not. Speech is too fleeting to allow for analysis. Logic descended from the written word, in Greece, as well as India and China, where it developed independently. Logic turns the act of abstraction into a tool for determining what is true and what is false: truth can be discovered in words alone, apart from concrete experience. Logic takes its form in chains: sequences whose members connect one to another. The biggest obstacle to a stronger economic recovery. Sometimes, a simple, eight-word headline can say quite a bit: “Fed Chief Calls Congress Biggest Obstacle to Growth.” The Federal Reserve’s chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, said Wednesday that Congress is the largest obstacle to faster economic growth, and he warned that upcoming decisions about fiscal policy could once again undermine the nation’s recovery.
“The economic recovery has continued at a moderate pace in recent quarters despite the strong headwinds created by federal fiscal policy,” Mr. Bernanke said in the opening line of his prepared remarks to a Congressional committee.Moreover, he said, Congress could make things worse later this year. Access: Reflections on studying up in Hollywood. IMF Warns Of Global Slowdown. International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde on Sunday singled out the U.S. Congress for failing to avert across-the-board spending cuts that slow down potential for growth. Formal Broadband Plans Spur Economic and Social Development. Two Asian nations – Korea and Singapore — have managed to leapfrog multiple stages of economic development and have transformed into economic miracles. This comes as no accident, in part, because both have taken a planned approach to technological development, starting with national broadband plans, which has led to increased broadband adoption, and successive waves of economic growth.
A new report by the UN Broadband Commission and Cisco shows that Korea and Singapore are the most notable examples of a statistically significant trend -- Countries that embrace national broadband plans have increased broadband adoption. Canuckish : The efficiency of private... News Republic. The Independent Friday, June 28, 2013 9:18 AM GMT. International Labor Markets: All Tree, No Forest by Jeff Van Geete on Prezi.
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