Victor Shih - The Dangers of Capital Fleeing China
A giant that shrinks when coming closer -- that's what Victor Shih sees when looking at China's three trillion dollars of foreign exchange reserves. Shih is Assistant Professor of Political Science at...
View ArticleIrwin Collier - How Economists Used to Be Made
30 Ways to Be an Economist is INET's grantee interview series - INET grantees talk about how they do their work, and how they came to be doing it. This week: Irwin Collier - How Economists Used to Be...
View ArticleAsia 'set for rapid GDP growth'
Asia will account for half of global economic output by 2050 if it can maintain current growth rates, the Asian Development Bank says.
View ArticleInside Economics
Charles Fergusonâs Inside Job forces us to fundamentally rethink the connections between economics and policy making. This entangled relation runs along a number of dimension. First there is the...
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I was just amused with two projects by Shaun Usher: to âgather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memosâ in his blog Letters of Note, and to present interesting...
View ArticleIn the Archives
Taking a quick break from my work in the Samuelson archives â so fascinating, believe me! â I canât resist sharing the following, which I found in his correspondence files. Commenting on David...
View ArticleThese Things Take Time
Last week, I spent a few days in the Dalton-Brand Research Room, at Duke University, skimming through the Samuelson papers. They make everybody excited there, and for good reasons. Samuelson was all...
View ArticleShocks
The financial and economic crises started by the fall of Lehman Borthers came as a big shock, a financial shock, an economic shock, a psychological shock, and a political shock among others. From the...
View ArticleA Cold Case
Some time ago, my colleague and dear friend (nevertheless!) Loïc Charles wrote on the previous version of the Playground, a very nice and intriguing post on Samuelson's introductory textbook,...
View ArticleWas Adam Smith a communist?
In his two-tome, 1400 page Dutch Leerboek der Staathuishoudkunde (Textbook of Economics), first published in 1884, Nicolaas Pierson (1839 - 1909) accuses the great Scotsman of being a communist – or...
View ArticleDisdain or paranoia for historians of economics?
The organizers of Duke's Summer Institute on the history of economics were so worried that students might be embarrassed to ask their supervisors for a letter of recommendation, or that the...
View ArticleEconometric tools for performance and risk analysis. http://t.co/egiKvD9 #rstats
Econometric tools for performance and risk analysis. http://t.co/egiKvD9 #rstats
View ArticleWorkers 'cannot afford to retire'
Many workers may discover they cannot afford to retire because of changes to pension schemes, a firm of actuaries warns.
View ArticleRT @i_314: Econometric tools for performance and risk analysis....
RT @i_314: Econometric tools for performance and risk analysis. http://t.co/egiKvD9 #rstats
View ArticleRT @liondatasystems: will be attending the TDWI World Conference in San Diego...
RT @liondatasystems: will be attending the TDWI World Conference in San Diego on August 11. More info is at: http://t.co/nzjwPMT #predictive #rstats #datamining
View ArticleThe Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index Down -1.36% in June - Hedge...
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index Down -1.36% in June - Hedge Funds See Asset Inflows of $5.6 Billion fo http://p.ost.im/p/edjN3C
View ArticleHedge fund spotlight: Event-driven, managed futures and credit...
Hedge fund spotlight: Event-driven, managed futures and credit http://p.ost.im/p/ee3Hxp
View ArticleThe Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index Down -1.36% in June - Hedge...
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index Down -1.36% in June - Hedge Funds See Asset Inflows of $5.6 Billion fo http://p.ost.im/p/edrrLe
View ArticleHedge Fund Disclosure Documents Line By Line: A User's Guide To Confidential...
Hedge Fund Disclosure Documents Line By Line: A User's Guide To Confidential Private Placement Memoranda for Fu... http://amzn.to/kcdvi4
View ArticleCharities 'hit by funding cuts'
More than 2,000 charities across England have seen their funding cut or completely withdrawn by local councils, according to research.
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