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Jim Kim, the incoming president of the World Bank, has gotten a lot of free (as in unsolicited) advice . I’ve participated happily, indeed eagerly (e.g. here ), on the grounds that—to use Robert Zoellick’s apt title in a recent Foreign Affairs article—the world still needs the World Bank , and a better World Bank is better for the world. Some of my advice came in the form of questions about the future of the bank in the light of the global paradigm shift outlined by Zoellick in a sweeping address last year: the rise of China and other dynamic middle-income countries, the spread of social media, the globalization of everything – good (norms on women’s status) and bad (effects of greenhouse gas emissions, global financial and food price volatility).
Global Development: Views from the Center
“To paint an accurate picture of how health care cost growth is affecting the finances of a typical American family, RAND Health researchers combined data from multiple sources to depict the effects of rising health care costs on a median income married couple with two children covered by employer-sponsored insurance. The analysis compared the family’s health care cost burden in 1999 with that incurred in 2009.
Hispanic Pundit
A few weeks ago, I got an email from a publicist at Penguin Books:
Crooked Timber — Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no strai
Heavy Lifting
On the nature of bribes An interesting report on bribery in the United States suggests that it is not as common as in other countries but it still happens. This chart was interesting, although N is small:Since November 2004 the primary function of this blog has been to serve as a personal resource repository for Social Security materials, but from the beginning most of my actual work was done commenting on other blogs and then after May 2008 as the main Social Security blogger on econoblog Angry Bear Meanwhile this blog has served a dual function as a personal and at times family blog.
The Bruce Web: History, Politics, Myth
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Growth Commission Blog | -Exchanging Views on Growth and Develop
Amy O'Leary's New York Times article "Everybody Inhale: How Many People Can Manhattan Hold?"
demography.matters.blog
Bronte Capital
My blog post suggesting that small-cap stocks were mostly to be avoided roused the animosity of many readers. The problem was that many of my readers see themselves as value investors.So the joke begins like this: An economist, a lawyer and a professor of marketing walk into a room.
Globalisation and the Environment
Core Economics
An new Parliamentary investigation into price differentials for digital products has been announced.History of Economics Playground
One INET project is to “reconnect the teaching of economics with the working of the actual economy,” which is to begin with a reform of the undergraduate curriculum.This is a bit wonkish. It also contains a lot of preliminary thinking on my part, so caveat emptor.
Greed, Green and Grains
The release of Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting transcripts from 2006 show how little America's top economic minds understand how leveraged asset bubbles harm the economy: