Teaching and Learning
Economics resources
Excellent streaming video, audio files and presentation slides of economics seminars provided by the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Well worth consulting.
Richard Brisebois
Cuba
Guantanamera (1995)
The movie (I also like the song.) When Aunt Yoyita dies during a visit to Gina in Guantánamo, Gina, along with Yoyita's childhood sweetheart, the aging Cándido, must take the body to Havana. To their annoyance, Gina's overbearing husband Adolfo, a punctilious undertaker with political ambitions,
Teaching and Learning
Celebrating the entrepreneur in film
from a fellow wordpress blog.
management
Managers need fable not fact
says GK Chesterton, Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
Teaching and Learning
Some students whine
... and one professor has a few answers for them. [via lifehacker]
Strategy
Duopolies
Coke and Pepsi, McDonald's and Burger King, Boeing and Airbus—this is an economy full of duopolies. One of those pairs, UPS and FedEx, is proving to be a fascinating Rorschach test about the state of the economy. UPS and FedEx both make excellent bellwethers for the stock
Work and the workplace
Complexity and evaluating performance
... and why we hate it. The sentence is wayyyyyyyyyyy too long, but he makes a good point. [It] is an occupational hazard for most adults -- the political, social, educational, technological, communication and economic systems in which we are forced to work, and which use simplistic, bizarre and absurd mechanisms to
community
Are you on Craig's list?
This article is from 2000 but it is still relevant: Community. It is one of those devoid-of-meaning words that inspires bemused grins from Internet insiders. Is a stock-market chat room a "community" -- or a rumor mill? Is a collection of customer reviews (of books, software,
business ethics
Controlling corruption: legal or cultural?
A recent article [pdf] with an astute metric: Corruption is believed to be a major factor impeding economic development, but the importance of legal enforcement versus cultural norms in controlling corruption is poorly understood. To disentangle these two factors, we exploit a natural experiment, the stationing of thousands of diplomats
Daniel Gross
the "R" word
Daniel Gross on predicting recessions: The problem with recession forecasting is that you never know when a recession has started until long after it begins. The National Bureau of Economic Research is the official dater of recessions, and it doesn't make forecasts. We could be in a recession
English language
What words once meant
A great post on etymology with several examples. Thanks to Professor Piderit for the pointer.
International Business
Coming soon to a planet near you: war over water
Symptoms of the resulting water stress are increasingly visible. In northern China, rivers now run dry in their lower reaches for much of the year. In parts of India, groundwater levels are falling so rapidly that from 10 percent to 20 percent of agricultural production is under threat. From the