Academics
the new Nobel recipient in Economics. The Nobel Prize citation highlights two distinct but connected contributions: Mr. Krugman’s development of the “new trade theory” and his work on the “new economic geography.” International trade has a long history in economics, and for the bulk of the field’s history,
Teaching and Learning
Real learning comes with ups and downs, because it’s about experimenting. There’s no successful experimentation without failure. And please don’t confuse failing a standardized test with that all-important “experimental” failure. A failed experiment may lead to an insight that breaks the path to success. A failed
Visuals
Thanks strangemaps.
Comic relief
Julian Cook chief economist at Corbett and Barker said "The government will give your money to the banks so the banks can start lending you that money probably at around 7% APR. "Thanks to all the interest you re paying on your own money the banks will make
Visuals
Thanks junkcharts.
Business Environment
the current economic woes look a lot like what my 96-year-old grandmother still calls "the real Great Depression." She pinched pennies in the 1930s but she says that times were not nearly so bad as the depression her grandparents went through. That crash came in 1873
Business Environment
* Pay the Salaries of 22 Million People * Establish Universal Health Coverage * Purchase a Communications System for Emergency Medical Services * Build Levees around New Orleans * Buy Denmark -- Twice * Finance Germany's Entire National Budget for Over a Year * Fight Poverty in Africa for 10 Years * Finance all US Intelligence Operations
Business Environment
The money meltdown.
Persons
A presentation with written words only. Self-standing and brilliant. Watch it... and do something! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIvmE4_KMNw] thanks Rowan.
Strategy
By 2015, the United States will have more than 45 million households with people from 51 to 70 years old, compared with about 25 million for the “silent” generation, born from 1925 to 1945. Their real disposable income and consumption will be roughly 40 percent higher, and they will control
Buzzwords
Corporate Buzzwords that Need to Die Corporate Buzz Words
Business Environment
The Industrial Era is ending. Its extraordinary successes—advances in literacy, life expectancy, human rights, and technology—have propelled us headlong into a myriad of side effects: food and water shortages, cyclonic destruction, prolonged drought and rising sea levels. To delay acknowledging the need for lifestyle and business changes risks