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RT @gumption Americans wildly underestimate income disparity, prefer far greater equitability @DanAriely
economics  ethics  usa 
october 2010 by amy
Op-Ed Columnist - Too Little of a Good Thing - NYTimes.com
The good news is that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a k a the Obama stimulus plan, is working just about the way textbook macroeconomics said it would. But that’s also the bad news — because the same textbook analysis says that the stimulus was far too small given the scale of our economic problems. Unless something changes drastically, we’re looking at many years of high unemployment.
usa  economics  economy  finance  business  jobs  from delicious
november 2009 by amy
Nudge-ocracy
Barack Obama's new theory of the state.
usa  politics  economics  tbr 
april 2009 by amy
Recovery.Gov
"check back after the passage of the American Recovery and REinvestment Act to wee how and where your tax dollars are spent."
usa  politics  economics 
february 2009 by amy
What to Do - The New York Review of Books [Krugman]
anything that has to be rescued during a financial crisis, because it plays an essential role in the financial mechanism, should be regulated when there isn't a crisis so that it doesn't take excessive risks...Some people say that our economic problems are structural, with no quick cure available; but I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.
economics  comment  finance  politics  world 
december 2008 by amy
Bloomberg.com: U.S.
Brooksley Born `Vindicated' as Swap Rules Take Shape (Update1)
usa  economics 
november 2008 by amy
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the prophet of boom and doom
When this man said the world’s economy was heading for disaster, he was scorned. Now traders, economists, even Nasa, are clamouring to hear him speak
economics  statistics  society 
october 2008 by amy
BBC NEWS | Business | FBI holds 406 for mortgage fraud
The FBI says it has arrested 406 property market players as part of its crackdown on mortgage fraud... Earlier in the day, two former Bear Stearns managers in New York were arrested following the collapse of a fund linked to sub-prime mortgages.
usa  economics  finance 
june 2008 by amy
Researcher Links Rising Tide Of Obesity To Food Prices
“The reason healthier diets are beyond the reach of many people is that such diets cost more."
economics  society  food  health 
january 2008 by amy
globeandmail.com: Coming clean
For reasons that now escape me, I thought the best way to tell the story of that 30-cent raise was to work — and live — at the bottom of the food chain. I would find a low-paying job, a low-rent apartment and, single-mom-like, take my boys with me for
society  economics  business  culture 
june 2007 by amy
Out of the equation | eG weekly | EducationGuardian.co.uk
There are many theories about prostitution. The theory devised by Marina Della Giusta, Maria Laura Di Tommaso and Steinar Strom is one of the few that involves partial differential equations.
economics  sociology 
april 2007 by amy
Scoop: Society Will Benefit From empowered Women
Help Women Prosper And Society As A Whole Will Benefit, UN Assembly President Says
feminism  finance  economics  no_duh 
march 2007 by amy
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Gender bias 'worsening poverty'
"Inequality at home between men and women leads to poorer health for the children and greater poverty for the family, says a new study". (no duh)
gender  society  economics 
december 2006 by amy

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