Across the Curve. Economic Perspectives from Kansas City. Daniel W. Drezner | FOREIGN POLICY. Henri de Bodinat. PhDx » "Quand on parle de pognon, à partir d'un certain chiffre, Bizarrement, le Rapport Cardoso sur les aides publiques à la presse n’a eu que peu d’échos. Il dit et redit des vérités toutes simples que l’on peut résumer d’une phrase. La presse, en France, a des coûts de fabrication supérieurs à ses recettes malgré des prix de vente supérieurs à tous les autres pays développés. Résultat : les ventes baissent. On ne peut pas dire que l’État n’intervient pas puisqu’il a apporté directement ou indirectement (TVA réduite, aide postale) 1 Md€ à un secteur qui pèse 10Mds €.
Mais le rapport Cardoso réserve quelques surprises. PhDx lire le billet. RTable.NET. Economist's View. Real Time Economics. China’s GDP growth fell in the first quarter to its slowest pace since September of 2012, slipping to 7.4% on-year growth from 7.7% the in the fourth quarter. The increase was slightly higher than economists’ expectations of a 7.3% gain. Authorities released other data that suggested continuing weakness, but not at a quickening pace. Industrial production grew 8.8% on year in March below expectations of 9% but up from an average 8.6% expansion in January and February, combined to limit distortions from the Lunar New Year holidays.
Retail sales were 12.2% higher on-year in March, up from 11.8% growth in January and February. Fixed-asset investment, meanwhile, slipped to 17.6% on year in the first quarter from 17.9% growth in the first two months. Markets rose on the data, with both the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock markets clicking higher. Some economists saw a massaging of the GDP figures. Ecopublix. En pleine culture | Rue89. L'ami du laissez-faire. Economic Principals. Le Cercle des économistes. Adam Smith Lives! The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University is sponsoring an Undergraduate Ethics Symposium April 8-10, 2010.
This conference is shaped around a series of workshops in which students present to one another their best work on a subject of ethical concern. I write to invite you to encourage your faculty to bring this event to the attention of their students. A Call for Essays and Creative Writing Projects is attached, and a tentative schedule for the symposium, which will be frequently updated, is available on our website: Let me say at the outset that we hope to receive thoughtful and insightful essays and creative writing works which explore, analyze and examine ethical issues in a variety of ways. While writings on all areas of ethical concern are welcome, we encourage submissions focusing on Self-Interest, Altruism and Morality: Evolutionary, Religious and Philosophical Perspectives. Sincerely,
Adam Smith. The Adam Smith Institute Blog. Ezra Klein has launched his new site, Vox.com, with an essay on ‘how politics makes us stupid’. The piece is provocative, and Klein uses some interesting examples. Most striking is the study that shows that people’s maths skills get worse when the problem they’re dealing with has a political element and goes against their political instincts. (Klein seems to have slightly misunderstood the study he’s written about, but his basic point stands.) The basic claim is that people engage in ‘motivated reasoning’ when they think about politics – in other words, they think in order to justify what they already believe, not in order to discover the truth. This, he suggests, is because the politically-engaged people get more loyalty to their ‘tribe’ than they lose by being wrong. Klein says that this has become worse as political parties have become more ideologically uniform and ideological ecosystems, like think tanks, blogs, media, more expansive.
That’s where an ideology comes in. Economic Logic. LES COULOIRS DE BERCY. Le gouvernement va démissionner demain et Bercy va se retrouver orphelin. Voici quelques questions auxquelles François Hollande devra répondre avant de nommer le ou les successeurs de François Baroin et Valérie Pécresse. Mes réponses ou hypothèses ne sont que pure conjecture. Combien de Bercy? Quand il est arrivé au pouvoir, en 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy a voulu « casser la forteresse » en créant deux ministères à Bercy: l’un pour l’Economie, l’autre pour les Comptes publics. Cette dichotomie a été beaucoup critiquée, y compris à droite. François Hollande devra décider s’il conserve ce schéma, qui permet de ne pas assujettir les sujets liés à la croissance à la seule orthodoxie budgétaire mais a l’inconvénient d’exacerber les rivalités et d’affaiblir le poids politique de Bercy. François Hollande va devoir répondre à plusieurs questions avant de trouver le ou les nouveau(x) locataire(s) de Bercy (Photo: Reuters) Quel profil politique?
Quel signal donner à l’Europe? Quel casting, alors? Matières premières | Dominique Baillard. L'analyse économique appliquée au droit - Microeconomix. Rationalité Limitée. Econ-Atrocity / Econ-Utopia » News. Tout sur la Chine. Economic Dreams - Economic Nightmares. I spent most of my working life in the US Forest Service, battling fundamentalism. Most of the battles dealt with economics.
My first job was to coordinate use of a linear programming model (FORPLAN) in the development of forest plans. The model may (or may not) have been useful in projecting overall timber sales volumes from big-timber forests, but to have used it as an overall planning model was a mistake. Forests are not factories. Multiple uses for timber, recreation, wildlife, minerals and oil and gas, livestock grazing (and so on) must be carefully balanced against preservation and conservation efforts in the dynamic self-organizing systems that we call Nature—forest and grasslands in particular.
That balancing act is not the stuff of simple, formulaic problem solving. I remember one day in 1979, before I joined the Forest Service, having lunch with FORPLAN developer K. Ed Cone sums up the idea of "market worship", talking about the 2007-2008 financial implosion: Bases de données. Econ Amore. Blog de Paul Jorion - Anthropologie - Economie - Sciences cognit.
Econbrowser. Www.ifen.fr: Accueil. Ressources - Commerce international et données tarifaires. A Random Walk. Abnormal Returns Intelligent Investment Links in Real-Time. Ataxingmatter. In Part I, I outlined some of the many ways in which the U.S. provides favorable treatment to religious institutions and/or their representatives, including income exclusions from the federal income tax for ministers that are unavailable to any other occupation. In this Part II, I want to consider how the corporatization of religion relates to increased politicization of religious fundamentalism in recent decades and the religious right's incessant push to influence public policies. Then in Part III I will return to the uneasy juncture of religious freedom claims and taxation. A caveat. It is sometimes easy to mythologize the past, to see it in more favorable light than the present merely because of the filter of time that removes more garish problems.
Sometimes I think that is the way we see the role of religion in political life. Think about Abe Lincoln as described in this US News article (Dan Gilgoff, Abraham Lincoln's Religious Uncertainty, US News, Feb. 12, 2009).