| 单词 | economist |
| 例句 | Obviously we have one of those debates over whether the glass is half empty or half full; the increases that seem to have mollified many economists do not seem so impressive to me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In a perfect world, an economist could run a controlled experiment just as a physicist or a biologist does: setting up two samples, randomly manipulating one of them, and measuring the effect. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Two economists and a psychologist recently banded together to address these questions. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But there is really no connection between his status as an economist and his Mavenism. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I persisted in my carping to the economists, they generally backed down a bit, conceding that while wages at the bottom are going up, they’re not going up very briskly. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This should be as startling to economists as a burst of exotic radiation is to astronomers. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Many, perhaps most, economists go further and believe that good institutions are overwhelmingly the most important explanation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This solution may have seemed appealing to politicians, but to an economist it doesn’t make much sense. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z One of them is an economist and one of them is a logician and one of them is a mathematician. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A street crime has a victim, who typically reports the crime to the police, who generate data, which in turn generate thousands of academic papers by criminologists, sociologists, and economists. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “It was beginning to become clear to most economists that mobility in the United States was neither what they had long believed nor what most Americans took for granted,” Janny said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Thomas Malthus had been a curate at the Okewood Chapel in Surrey by daytime, but he was a closet economist by night. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The economists decided to test their solution by conducting a study of ten day-care centers in Haifa, Israel. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And new research on mobility, the movement of families up and down the economic ladder, shows there is far less of it than economists once thought and less than most people believe. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The economists’ analysis was that he wasn’t even in the top fifty. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z So even for someone who considers a fetus to be worth only one one-hundredth of a human being, the trade-off between higher abortion and lower crime is, by an economist’s reckoning, terribly inefficient. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The economist John R. Lott Jr. is the main champion of this idea. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Some economists argue that the apparent paradox rests on an illusion: there is no real “labor shortage,” only a shortage of people willing to work at the wages currently being offered. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z His economist friends thought he had lost his mind, but his wife supported him. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Indeed, when the economists eliminated the $3 fine in the seventeenth week of their study, the number of late-arriving parents didn’t change. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Illustrious ladies dressed in foreign clothes, as exotic and shimmering as fireflies, paraded themselves in the fashionable entertainment centers on the arm of the proud new economists. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When I called around to various economists in the summer of 2000 and complained about the inadequacy of the wages available to entry-level workers, this was their first response: “But wages are going up!” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “In this income data I see a snapshot of a very innovative society,” said Tim Kane, an economist at the Heritage Foundation. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The economist Kenneth Arrow has proved a very powerful generalization which shows that something like the above situation characterizes every voting system. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is no reason to doubt the old saw that the most important decision you make is choosing your parents,” said David Levine, the Berkeley economist and mobility researcher. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But an economist rarely has the luxury of such pure experimentation. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z This outcome may surprise some people—including Feldman’s economist friends, who counseled him twenty years ago that his honor-system scheme would never work. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The typical economist believes the world has not yet invented a problem that he cannot fix if given a free hand to design the proper incentive scheme. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I had long wanted to talk to an economist about some of the ideas I had come across in my reading. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “Most people are working very hard to transmit their advantages to their children,” said David I. Levine, a Berkeley economist and mobility researcher. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Are these things serious? I’m not economist enough to trace the fearful consequences of such things.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The social scientists, especially the economists, are moving deeply into ecology and the environment these days, with disquieting results. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A pair of economists who heard of this dilemma—it turned out to be a rather common one—offered a solution: fine the tardy parents. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can’t define your identity.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z And the economist says, “Look, the cows in Scotland are brown.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In the parlance of economists, such a case is known as an information asymmetry. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z International economists often describe South Korea as the single most impressive example of what free markets, democratic government, and elbow grease can do to transform a small agrarian backwater into a global powerhouse. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Some economists consider the findings of the new studies murky; it cannot be definitively shown that mobility has fallen during the last generation, they say, only that it has not risen. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z On October 11, in Washington, D.C., an economist named Alexander Sachs showed his ID to security guards outside the White House. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Among economists, there are two leading theories of discrimination. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z As it happens, economists have a curious habit of affixing numbers to complicated transactions. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z This one happened to be an economist who, instead of thinking grand macro thoughts, favored his own list of offbeat micro curiosities. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In the ten years or so since this group was first identified, economists have gone to great lengths to understand them. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Regression analysis is the tool that enables an economist to sort out these huge piles of data. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In a paper titled “The Nature and Nurture of Economic Outcomes,” the economist Bruce Sacerdote addressed the nature- nurture debate by taking a long-term quantitative look at the effects of parenting. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It would be the first time that such priceless financial data had fallen into an economist’s hands, affording an analysis of a heretofore uncharted criminal enterprise. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Had they grown up under different circumstances, they might have thought about becoming economists or writers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Someone—an economist or a politician or a parent—has to invent them. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But the initial mobility studies were flawed, economists now say. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The missive was duly placed in the hands of Alexander Sachs, a Russian-born economist with a scientific background and, more to the point, access to the White House inner circle as an advisor to FDR. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was the economist Milton Friedman who helped come up with a solution to this one: automatic tax withholding from employees’ paychecks. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In recent years, economists have spent a great deal of time studying Mavens, for the obvious reason that if marketplaces depend on information, the people with the most information must be the most important. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The economist Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist and devout critic of George W. Bush, bemoaned this fact as the President’s reelection campaign got under way in early 2004. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z What an economist typically has is a data set with a great many variables, none of them randomly generated, some related and others not. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z After all, if none of the criminologists, police officials, economists, politicians, or others who traffic in such matters had foreseen the crime decline, how could they suddenly identify its causes? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z They spent the next few months grilling economists, sociologists, and marketing experts, wrangling data. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Roland G. Fryer Jr., the young black economist who analyzed the “acting white” phenomenon and the black-white test score gap, may be among the next. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Drug dealers are rarely trained in economics, and economists rarely hang out with crack dealers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The economist Isaac Ehrlich, in an oft-cited 1975 paper, put forth an estimate that is generally considered optimistic: executing 1 criminal translates into 7 fewer homicides that the criminal might have committed. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “We all know stories of poor families in which the next generation did much better,” said Gary Solon, a University of Michigan economist who is a leading mobility researcher. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She paused, and Fisman spoke up: “No, the real me is the me revealed by my actions. That’s what an economist would say.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z By subjecting it to the economist’s favorite trick: regression analysis. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z An Essay on the Principle of Population was written by the economist Thomas Robert Malthus in 1798. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z While most economists recognize that the richest are pulling away, they disagree on what this means. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z At the same time, politicians were growing increasingly softer on crime—“for fear of sounding racist,” as the economist Gary Becker has written, “since African-Americans and Hispanics commit a disproportionate share of felonies.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The crime drop was, in the language of economists, an “unintended benefit” of legalized abortion. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Like the rest of their Bengali friends, his parents expect him to be, if not an engineer, then a doctor, a lawyer, an economist at the very least. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Give it 1 year and really make a go of it. Make 1 friend. Do 1 thing outside of these walls. Read 1 book not written by an economist or a mathematician.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z "In Austin and Dallas job security concerns are probably less than in other places," says James P. Gaines, research economist at the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University. America's Best Cities For Young Professionals 2010-06-17T23:00:00Z Lloyd Banwart, 35, is an economist who worked from home until six months ago. At Cove, working remotely doesn’t have to be lonely 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Since their actions are consistently directed to an end, an economist could call them rational. If we are to cope with climate change we need a new moral order 2012-08-21T07:30:01Z Kimberly Ritter-Martinez, an economist on the team that wrote the Otis Report, said it's probably not a case of Orange County institutions of higher learning being all that lavish toward their faculty. Producers make $102,860? Composers $63,560? Otis report on jobs and pay 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z At that point I didn't think that I wanted to be an economist, but the qualifications I had pretty much meant I had to become one. From pop star to chiropractor: musicians' post-musical careers 2010-09-23T21:29:00Z Macron announced after receiving the report by a Senegalese economist and French art historian that France would immediately return 26 artefacts requested by Benin in 2016. Senegal opens new art museum honoring black civilization 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z But as an agricultural economist and director of the Ohio State Food Waste Collaborative, I know all too well that there's no ready elegant solution. About one-third of the food Americans buy is wasted 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Ms. McAndrew, the economist, has surveyed dealers and collectors, and estimates that in the United States, private sales make up 70 percent of all transactions measured by dollar value. Swiss Freeports Are Home for a Growing Treasury of Art 2012-07-21T18:52:48Z There is a lively debate from a range of economists on how to get to a more equitable economy. Patterns of pain: what Covid-19 can teach us about how to be human 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Nearly a third of women aged 65 to 69 are now working, up from 15 percent in the late 1980s, according to recent analyses by the Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz. I Am (an Older) Woman. Hear Me Roar. 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z An American economist who teaches at Northwestern University, Mr Gordon has long been famous in academic circles for advancing three iconoclastic arguments. G force 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Bart Watson, the economist for the Brewers Association, a national trade organization, says that “craft Pilsener sales basically tripled” between 2013 and 2016. Make room, hoppy IPA. Pilsener is the buzzy new craft beer. 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z He now regrets some of his original Date Lab application responses, like describing his dream date as "a riot grrl frontwoman turned development economist that likes her burgers rare." Last time, we matched him with an introvert. This time, we tried an extrovert. 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z “Appelbaum does have an ax to grind, but unsheathes it only occasionally, usually to offer cutting one-sentence dismissals of particularly dubious claims by economists,” Justin Fox writes in his admiring review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z MIT economist Michael Kremer has shown that when corporations of many types are confronted with such sequential tasks, they put their highest-skilled staff at the final stages of production. About one-third of the food Americans buy is wasted 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Underlying all this confusion is the problem that we don't have a way of ranking rationalities, so that the word means something more to a moral agent than it does to an economist. If we are to cope with climate change we need a new moral order 2012-08-21T07:30:01Z The status quo that the economists set about reshaping was not sustainable, Appelbaum argues. Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z For diners, tasting menus are all about “the idea of ritual social performance, signaling your worth to others,” said economist Tyler Cowen, who also blogs about ethnic restaurants and frugal dining. The $1,000 date night: Has D.C.’s tasting-menu culture hit a tipping point? 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z His father is a senior economist for Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation, also in Washington. Zoë Guengerich, Connor Dowd 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z This was essentially he argument made in the economists’ amicus brief. Analyzing the Convoluted Supreme Court Ruling 2012-06-28T15:02:43Z A stay-at-home mother with almost zero interest in cooking, cleaning or decorating, Alice is married to Doug, an economist who’s up for tenure at the university and spends the summer buried frantically in his papers. ‘Summer, 1976’ Review: The Path to Freedom Starts With a Friendship 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Originally trained as an economist, Mr. Kaplan was the founder and longtime chief executive of Institutional Investor, a monthly magazine for pension fund and asset managers. Gilbert E. Kaplan, Publisher and Improbable Conductor, Dies at 74 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z You don’t have to be an economist to understand what has happened. The Value of Burgundy, Regardless of the Price 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z And in a surprise kicker, two economists report this desirable type of entrepreneurship is associated with a greater percentage of atheists and agnostics in a state’s population. Forget the Protestant work ethic: Atheists make better innovators 2014-03-03T01:00:00Z There were college students and economists, policy wonks and retirees, some wearing jeans or spring dresses, others still spiffy in their work clothes. How French expats in Washington are preparing for an election back home 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The gain in overall employment was the largest since April and outpaced economists' expectations for a rise of only 150,000. U.S. jobless rate drops to near 3-year low 2012-02-03T14:25:00Z Then, about 15 years ago, economists made an unexpected finding: the U-shaped happiness curve. Midlife crisis? It’s a myth. Why life gets better after 50 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z A striking number of free-market economists, worshippers at the feet of Milton Friedman and his Chicago colleagues, have lined up to don sackcloth and ashes and swear allegiance to the memory of Keynes. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z Not an economist, historian, or journalist, but simply a singer, Springsteen understood what still eludes many politicians and millions of Americans committed to the optical challenge of the blindfold. Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad," then and now 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Davies, a political economist, argues that democracy is in peril because crowd-driven emotions have displaced rational thinking in an age dominated by the internet and social media. New in Paperback: ‘Spies of No Country’ and ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z After graduating from the Leningrad Engineering & Economics Institute in 1988, he went to work as the mill’s senior economist and became its finance director in 1992. Betting on America 2012-06-07T01:34:51Z According to economist Harold Innis, “stone, clay tablets and parchment are ‘heavy’ media which enable a civilization to anchor itself in the past and eternalize itself.” Paper, books and the art of collecting 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z I'm a member of a team of economists studying the social safety net and work. SNAP work requirements drastically limit the availability of food aid 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z As Americans fought against Nazism overseas, this Swedish economist served up an encyclopedic revelation of racial discrimination in their backyards. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z This is, after all, the summer of Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," the 700-page bestseller about income inequality by a French economist. From the irony files: Copy of 'Das Kapital' sells for $40,000 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z When this tactic — arbitrage, an economist would call it — became known, the faculty was divided on how to treat the students who had taken advantage of it. Can’t a capitalist be moral? 2012-06-17T22:00:00Z As the UEA economist who led the study put it: “It appears to cheer people up.” Why commuting by public transport makes you happy 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z "The report was much better than expected in terms of indicating fundamental strength in the economy," said Pierre Ellis, senior economist at Decision Economics in New York. Jobless rate drops to near 3-year low 2012-02-03T16:04:03Z Similarly the Smoot-Hawley Tariff in 1930, which every economist agrees is ridiculous – it’s not clear how much that actually mattered in terms of the macro results. What can we learn from the Great Depression? 2012-08-27T11:45:00Z An unconventional collaboration between a former World Bank economist and a novelist, “Equality for Women = Prosperity for All” analyzes how women’s exclusion from work and educational opportunities inhibits economic growth. Three New Takes on Feminism: In the Dorm, in the Economy and Around the World 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “It was like we had already done all the background work,” says Edward, an economist at the Treasury Department. On Love: Julia Baron and Edward Garnett And the economist Milton Friedman, whose laissez-faire economic theories were embraced by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, is portrayed as a kind of Antichrist foreshadowing the global meltdown of 2008. Review: ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes,’ a Documentary About Income Inequality 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Nobel Prize winners, academics and economists are interviewed, and while they mention numerous reasons for these meltdowns, hubris is often cited as the chief culprit. Review: ‘Boom Bust Boom,’ a Pythonesque Look at Financial Crashes 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Another talk by David Autor, an economist, argued that reports of the death of work are greatly exaggerated. Will Robots Take Our Children’s Jobs? 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Michael Madowitz, 41, an economist at the Center for American Progress, said that a weekend setting up holiday decorations was a great outdoor activity for his two kids, Roxie, 5, and Gidget, 7. It’s dark outside. Families are putting up Christmas lights early to offset the gloom. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z In 1955, economist Milton Friedman brought them into the national spotlight in a paper titled, “The Role of Government in Education.” Why religious fundamentalists are so excited about charter schools 2014-03-26T11:50:00Z Their mission: to establish an experimental utopian community inspired by the economist Henry George, whose wildly popular book, “Progress and Poverty,” influenced readers around the world in search of more equitable societies. A Southern Town That’s Been Holding On to Its Charm, for More Than a Century 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z He is good at knockabout invective, laying into "fragilista" economists such as Joseph Stiglitz and self-aggrandising journalists such as "the vile and harmful" Thomas Friedman, who was an apologist for the Iraq war. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z “There is just no indication that anything they were doing influenced the price,” said David Rothschild, an economist who specializes in prediction markets. Meet the GOP operatives who aim to smear the 2020 Democrats — but keep bungling it 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Khashoggi, meanwhile, was writing columns for The Washington Post drawing attention to the prince’s brash foreign policy moves and simultaneous crackdown on activists and perceived critics, including women’s rights activists, writers, clerics and economists. Justin Bieber performs at Saudi F1 race after boycott calls 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Garfinkle is a liberal economist whose thinking and business activities are summed up in the title of his previous book, “The American Dream vs. the Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy.” How Lincoln favored the middle class over the wealthy 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z About two decades ago, a bunch of economists at Princeton formed a wine-tasting club. Wine needs its Nate Silver: Can we quantify and more accurately describe how alcohol tastes? 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Enrico Moretti, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, estimates that when housing prices rise by 10 percent, the price of local services, including restaurants, rises by about 6 percent. San Francisco Restaurants Can’t Afford Waiters. So They’re Putting Diners to Work. 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z As Keynes famously put it, The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. We’ve been brainwashed 2012-06-14T17:21:00Z Ms. Lim, who trained as an economist and is officially the business brain, saw her parents build a business by selling jewelry and overcoming their foreign accents. Special Report: Fashion: Humberto Leon and Carol Lim of Opening Ceremony on their challenge at Kenzo 2011-09-09T12:03:38Z Mr. Schlesinger, a brilliant, often abrasive economist, served under three presidents in posts that included the secretary of defense and energy, as well as head of the C.I.A. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia 2014-03-27T18:40:41Z To show the relative importance of these factors, economists rely heavily on fancy statistical tests, crunching data from dozens of countries across many decades. No fear to tread 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Mr Stiglitz is not the first economist to make dark predictions about the euro, though it is clear that he favours its success. On course to fail 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Mr Ebenstein does not go into it, but of course, left-leaning economists, as well as conservative ones, sometimes also trade in their academic lecterns for political soapboxes. Going off the rails 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z In 1970s Washington, politicians started putting economists in charge of stuff. Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z “All these things could be done yesterday: This is the reality,” said Betsey Stevenson, a labor economist at the University of Michigan. The Office Will Never Be the Same 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Ibrahim Bihi is a Somalian economist, keen to talk; Jude is a wide-eyed Irish orphan. The Great Goat Bubble – review 2012-07-19T17:30:02Z Everywhere you went there was an economist or "expert" expounding the virtues of deregulation, the minimal state and low taxation. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z I became the chief economist of the New York Stock Exchange and later professor of economics at Pace University. Wilma Rudolph, Nuclear Fusion and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z "This is really the last gateway of historic farmland up here," said Liz Dale, an economist who specializes in land policy. Rural residents strike back at Lucas film empire 2012-02-11T19:16:04Z Davies, a political economist at the University of London, traces how we got here, and offers suggestions about what to do. How the Mind-Body Connection Is Rewiring Our Politics 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Which it very well may be, though Hoenig’s hard-line position glides through this book mostly uncontested, with only a scant sense of why it didn’t win over the other economists at the Fed. A Fascinating Page-Turner Made From an Unlikely Subject: Federal Reserve Policy 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z The one-day event is bringing together more than a dozen producers, marketers, entrepreneurs, academics, economists and artists. Conference asks: What is the best Broadway can be? 2013-01-24T13:40:09Z In “The Social Order of the Underworld” David Skarbek, an American political economist at King’s College London, shows how gangs have spread through the prison system in the United States. Protection rackets 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Dr. Ewing got married in August, and as part of the wedding celebration, she and her husband, an economist, rented a bus and treated their guests to a custom history tour. Eve Ewing Blasts From Chicago to Space, With a Boost from Marvel 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z As a result these students may suffer a drop in self-esteem or not develop certain kinds of social skills that are useful later in life, the two economists theorized. Studying Links Between Anatomy and Crime 2010-05-10T21:46:00Z It is an entrancing argument; but Mr Jerven thinks it exemplifies all that is wrong with economists’ views of Africa. No fear to tread 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Tim Jackson, an ecological economist at the University of Surrey in England, says that in nature, mechanisms that grow unchecked “end up basically killing their host.” ‘System Error’ Review: Growing Pains 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z And if a wine economist explains that there’s little correlation between quality and cost once a bottle exceeds $50 or $60? ‘Cork Dork’ Sniffs, Swills and Spits Through the World of Wine Experts 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Berkeley economist James Robinson examined 27 hospital markets across eight states, and found that hospitals in more concentrated markets charged 44 percent more, on average, for common medical procedures like coronary angioplasty and knee replacement. Goal of the New York City Hospital Mega-Merger: Raising Prices 2012-06-08T13:13:54Z Such is the state of fear — Freedom House declares democracy to be facing “its most serious crisis in decades” — that even economists are leaping across customary academic boundaries into political science in order to opine. Dambisa Moyo’s Proposals for Saving Democracy 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Visitors come to the house: a female violinist who plays for injured soldiers in field hospitals; a philatelic economist; a painter charged with sketching what remains of the local landmarks. 750,000 Germans Fled East Prussia in 1945. A Novelist Imagines One Family’s Exodus. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z “If they clearly articulate what they have in mind, everything is transparent and they’re very deliberate about it, for an economist, it will be more interesting than paint drying,” Zandi said. The Fed took bold steps to boost the economy. Will undoing one of them rattle markets? 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z The effort “significantly lowered long-term interest rates which helped support the housing market and the broader economy,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. The Fed took bold steps to boost the economy. Will undoing one of them rattle markets? 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z “A team of economists have worked it out.” I thought I had hit the age of peak happiness. How wrong I was 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z When asked about her climate strike, Mnuchin sarcastically asked, "Is she the chief economist? Or who is she? I'm confused." Greta Thunberg docuseries in the works 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Tremendous transactions are entered upon, and though Mr Belloc disclaims the technical equipment of the economist, one is convinced that he would make a good City Editor. A novel by Hilaire Belloc with twenty-two drawings by G.K. Chesterton 2012-06-05T06:30:00Z The groom is a paternal grandson of Milton Friedman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist. A Commitment for More Than One Lifetime 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z The authors, economists from the University of Maryland, called it “the Oprah effect.” Dave Chappelle’s endorsement matters, but not in the way Andrew Yang wants 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Citing a dramatic drop in home sales after the credit expired, economists say it did little more than pull inevitable summer home sales forward and delay a recovery. The New Homebuyer Tax Credit Won't Die --Should It? 2010-07-01T22:54:00Z In their research, the economists found a major difference between women's roles in societies that were descended from farming communities that used ploughs and those whose ancestors used hoes. The root of inequality? It's down to whether you ploughed or hoed... 2011-07-30T23:06:21Z It is increasingly accepted that income, the economists' traditional measure of human welfare, is not a good indicator of wellbeing. Flickonomics: eight movies that teach us how money works 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Other disciplines now cite these multicolor brain scans, which look much cooler than anything a psychologist or economist or historian might do. Procrastination rules 2012-07-02T01:00:00Z A lot of other economists did, including Edward Prescott, who won the Nobel Prize for economics, so presumably should be taken seriously. What can we learn from the Great Depression? 2012-08-27T11:45:00Z Roth and fellow economist Lloyd Shapley were honored by the Swedish Academy for their scholarship on market design. Nobel winning economist Roth has book deal 2012-11-28T18:16:04Z Nationally, the number of farm breweries is “certainly growing, mostly buoyed by the increasing number of states offering farm brewery licenses,” says Bart Watson, chief economist for the Brewers Association, a nationwide craft-beer trade group. Following a national trend, farm-to-glass beers are growing in Md. 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z A photo of Trump, his arm around Laffer during the Oval Office ceremony, hangs on the economist’s wall. Tax-cut guru still says he’s right about Trump, Truss and trickle-down 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Now that we’ve eliminated many of what economists would term “search costs”, it’s possible to avoid the deep life learnings of relationship breakdown. Guide to online dating behaviours 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z No less a personage than Lord Nicholas Stern, the world’s leading environmental economist working on climate change, recognizes the facts and calls for change. Climate change can be stopped 2012-12-09T17:00:00Z A second strand of economics, the one originated by George Akerlof, laid the groundwork for Piers Steel and dozens of other prominent economists and psychologists who see procrastination as closely tied to impatience. Procrastination rules 2012-07-02T01:00:00Z It’s hard to measure what economists call opportunity cost in a field like theater. Is It Finally Twilight for the Theater’s Sacred Monsters? 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z "When you don't invest in the inventors of tomorrow, the economist of tomorrow, the doctors of tomorrow won't emerge because you haven't taught people to think in their individual creative ways," he said. Music mogul honors celebs at charity fundraiser 2011-07-31T14:22:08Z Business leaders and economists gave him short shrift for meddling with the free market. Dan Price: the CEO who took a pay cut to give his staff a $70k minimum wage 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z As a result, some economists have tried to measure wellbeing by asking people directly how happy they are. Flickonomics: eight movies that teach us how money works 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Artists are not economists, after all, and there is a value to her insistent gaze on the most unrefined forms of wealth and consumerism. Lauren Greenfield Tries to Capture the Meaning of Money 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Excluding social sciences, there are just nine entries representing the whole of science – but a spectacular 19 economists, easily the best-represented academic field and perhaps testimony to Flanders's persuasive skills in the elimination process. UK scores in Prospect's thinkers list 2013-03-13T14:37:14Z LP:You mention the work of economist Teresa Ghilarducci, “the most dangerous woman in America.” The personal finance industry can’t save us 2013-03-06T20:53:00Z When years later she announced she was leaving her husband, the economist Alfred H. Conrad, and their three young sons, Conrad drove to Vermont and committed suicide near the family’s summer house. ‘The Power of Adrienne Rich’ Captures a Forceful and Complicated Poet 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Before 2007 regulators and economists were slow to recognise this issue. Fresh thoughts 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z It also goes against concerns among economists about the possibility of a double-dip recession brought on by high unemployment and anemic economic growth. Box office heading toward record despite economy 2011-08-17T18:03:09Z An economist and former banker, she got into this business because her husband is severely gluten-intolerant. A Gluten-Free Greenmarket Baker Finds a Permanent Home 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z The data I cited was from Tara Parker-Parker Pope’s book For Better and I was specifically referring to economist Betsey Stevenson’s analysis of the 20-year divorce rate among couples who married in the 1980s. “Princeton Mom” gets schooled at her alma mater 2014-04-22T12:00:00Z His father, an economist and banker, brought the family to the United States in 1940, and Johannes grew up in Washington, D.C. Johannes Somary, Conductor of Neglected Works, Dies at 75 2011-02-08T06:59:21Z Many economists still fear that the economy might dip back into recession. Stocks drop as optimism about jobs fades 2011-08-05T15:39:00Z In other words, the company knows more about the car than you do, something economists call asymmetric information. "Gluten-free water" shows absurdity of trend in labeling what’s absent 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z And the economist Joseph Stiglitz slammed the Obama administration for “directing most of its efforts at rescuing the banks” and for a stimulus that was too small and poorly targeted. Books of The Times: ?The Escape Artists,? by Noam Scheiber 2012-02-27T23:16:56Z The United States is currently led by a man who regards the economy as an extension of himself and pays no heed to economists. Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z They will discover that Keynes was not a professional economist at all, and certainly not a banker. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z The problem is that the people who are supposed to help us decide what to do about it — economists, policymakers and political leaders — do not. Three New Books Explore the Machinery of the Mind 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z It may seem troubling to see the fate of the nation treated like a cheap round of poker, but the gamification of politics is actually incredibly useful to economists and political scientists. Here’s how to legally gamble on the 2016 race 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z But Susskind, an economist at Oxford, makes a lucid case that it’s time to take them seriously, as advances in artificial intelligence may lead to devastating economic effects. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Indeed, this is a view shared by many, though not all, economists. Thomas Piketty Turns Marx on His Head 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Wanting to diversify into something less vulnerable to weather, Melamed went to economist Milton Friedman to discuss his idea of trading in financial futures, prefacing their talk with "Please, don't laugh." Man saved from Nazis by 'Japan's Schindler' returns on journey of homage 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Within a few years, Thomas Fichandler quit his job as a government economist to become Arena’s full-time executive director. Zelda Fichandler, Arena Stage co-founder and matriarch of regional-theater movement, dies at 91 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z She spoke to gynecologists, economists, sociologists and a “small army of therapists” to contextualize what she learned. Review | Why are Gen X women struggling? A new book explores the many possible reasons. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z At Davos, in early 2019, he questioned the wisdom of perpetual economic growth: only “a madman or an economist” would cling to this notion, he argued. The real David Attenborough 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z But the ones who panhandle are often those who are least likely to connect to established programs, according to Brendan O’Flaherty, a Columbia University economist who has studied panhandling and homelessness. The panhandler’s lament: In an increasingly cashless world, fewer have a dime to spare 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Yet economists are rarely frank about the uncertainties that plague their data. No fear to tread 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Albert Hirschman went on to become one of the most famed economists and a professor of the history of economics. "Oh, Britta's in this?": Gillian Jacobs on playing a WWII hero and never leaving "Community" behind 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Every year philosophers, social activists, clerics, economists and academics from many nations gather in Fes to debate the headline issues of our time. The Fes festival resonates in the real world 2012-06-26T07:30:02Z “Some people see gentrification happening when someone richer than them moves into the neighborhood” says economist Joe Cortright, one of the authors of the new study. Study: Seattle remains untouched by gentrification 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The report by Senegalese economist Felwine Sarr and French art historian Benedicte Savoy marks a potential milestone in the fight by African countries to recover works pillaged by Western explorers and colonisers. French commission to urge return of looted African art 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, a key architect of the law, estimates that around 40 percent of the uninsured population is not bound by the mandate. Obamacare's Dark Secret: The Individual Mandate is Too Weak 2012-07-09T05:06:06Z Douglas Allen, a Canadian economist, is on the board of the Ruth Institute, a project of the National Organization for Marriage. Minnesota’s attack on gay marriage 2012-09-05T15:42:00Z Those of James Boswell, David Garrick and Adam Smith in the 1770s expanded the group to include the greatest biographer, the greatest actor and the greatest economist of the century. The Friday Night Gab Sessions That Fueled 18th-Century British Culture 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Originally published in 1976, this short comic essay by an Italian economist sorts humans into four fundamental categories, concluding that stupid people are the most dangerous to society. New & Noteworthy, From Brilliant Essays to Stupid People 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z One common mistake, according to this book by two economists, is thinking about uncertainty as if it were roulette. Three New Books Explore the Machinery of the Mind 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z It talks about the Koch brothers, the economist Milton Friedman and that bulls**t trickle-down economics. "We want a contract": Greed and racism are why Amazon denies its workers unions, says labor leader 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z "This seems to be a UK phenomenon," PRS chief economist Will Page said. Festivals thrive in concert boom 2010-05-14T07:07:00Z But even as “craft is doing better with females,” said Bart Watson, the Brewers Association’s chief economist, the category “hasn’t changed its race/ethnicity mix very much.” Craft Beer Looks Beyond ‘Young White Dudes With Beards’ 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Gogol, the factory’s mustached chief economist, has a weakness for drink, hitting the cognac on set before morning filming begins. A Russian Writer’s Lessons for Being a Nobody While Being Yourself 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Because economists focus on the material dimensions of scarcity, they measure how many people are unemployed, what was produced in a particular quarter, what earnings were, and so on. Scarcity changes how we think 2013-09-08T12:30:00Z One way of thinking about this is suggested by the work of Joseph Schumpeter, the Austrian economist who was fascinated by the process of economic development. Technology is a double-edged sword 2012-12-23T00:07:19Z The report, released Wednesday, is sponsored by Otis College of Art and Design in L.A. and compiled by economists from the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. who use government data from federal and state agencies. Producers make $102,860? Composers $63,560? Otis report on jobs and pay 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z His two older sisters are college professors, his mother is a pediatric pulmonologist, and his father is an economist. MacArthur Fellows Named for 2012 2012-10-01T22:16:31Z But policymakers don’t listen to the experts, instead “placing their faith instead in doctrines most economists firmly reject.” Paul Krugman: What the GOP doesn’t know can hurt you 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Leading to this joke: Two economists are walking down the street and they see an expensive sports car. Carolyn Hax: Twin sister’s live-in male friend has an unclear purpose 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z “Even pre-pandemic, we knew there were huge barriers to mothers entering the labor force, particularly with young children,” said Gould, the economist. Many moms left the workforce during the pandemic. For some, going back isn’t so simple. 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z Populist anger is hardly surprising: elite financiers tanked the global economy, elite economists failed to foresee it and political elites failed to respond effectively enough. The world has become obsessed with elites 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Expansionist Keynesian economists are proved to be a “gang of charlatans.” The bankruptcy of liberal America: ‘The Mandibles,’ by Lionel Shriver 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z "If you have got something good, you will still get a really good price for it," said Clare McAndrew, an economist and editor of the recently released book "Fine Art and High Finance." 2010-02-04T16:46:00Z Inequality is a burning topic among economists, especially since the release of Thomas Piketty’s recent book on the subject. Welcome to Plutocrat-geddon! Obama and Thomas Friedman flatter our new billionaire overlords 2014-04-22T16:03:00Z Still William Yu, the economist who authored the entertainment report, characterized the growth of employee pay in entertainment as weak, especially in Los Angeles. Mandalay chief Peter Guber: California is giving away film production 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z If your specialist subject is the secret of romance, the arrangement of furniture to energise a lounge or an economist, it is quite likely you are a "so-called expert". If you want my opinion, what we need are experts, not windbags 2013-02-24T00:05:40Z James Meadway, senior economist at the thinktank the New Economics Foundation, points out in The Spirit of '45 that the assumption that the private sector is more efficient is not proven. The Spirit of '45: where did it go? 2013-03-02T16:00:02Z “Overall, for women, the situation is pretty grim,” says Julie A. Nelson, an economist at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Working moms are not okay 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z More bad economic news, which could come as soon as Friday morning with the report on July unemployment, would change that dynamic, said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. Stocks take a beating worldwide 2011-08-05T02:12:00Z When they write about interest rates, they talk to economists. Pushback 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Some economists, and McMahon, want to reform the commodities market; others to free all the markets even further; still more to lavish aid on educating the small farmers who make up most of the hungry. Feeding Frenzy by Paul McMahon; A Hungry Man in a Greedy World by Jay Rayner – review 2013-05-26T07:00:05Z The very economists he cites offer “notable exceptions.” A Separate and Unequal System of College Admissions 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z An economist, Ariel claims that altruism runs counter to his way of thinking. Review: In ‘The Tenth Man,’ Contending With a Father and a Traditional Upbringing 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z He also objected to my publishing with experimental economists on the same grounds. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z Most economists seem to think that you can grow the world economy indefinitely in a resource constrained world and most politicians would prefer not to think about the ultimate impact of global warming ! Gatsby and the way we live now 2013-05-31T16:27:58Z Some economists see the trend of remote work persisting. If Remote Work Empties Downtowns, Can Theaters Fill Their Seats? 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Simon Kuznets, a 20th-century economist, argued that inequality is low at low levels of development, rises during industrialisation and falls as countries reach economic maturity; high inequality is the temporary side-effect of the developmental process. The new wave 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z It's a risky proposition heading into what economists predict will be a new recession, but with wages stagnant and inflation ballooning, it's clear the status quo is not sustainable. "Smash capitalism" to "release your job," what "Downton Abbey" & Beyoncé can teach us about progress 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Are historians, economists and anthropologists up to the task? Why Are We in the West So Weird? A Theory 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z Viewing women primarily as human capital with earning potential, rather than as human beings with imaginations, desires, enthusiasms and senses of humor, makes sense for the calculations of an economist. Three New Takes on Feminism: In the Dorm, in the Economy and Around the World 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Remember that time is the ultimate scarce resource and that time is not money, no matter what the economists say. The myths of happiness 2013-03-31T21:00:00Z Describe him in three words Secretly adventurous economist. Blind date: ‘I don’t think he got my jokes’ 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z Many economists and a good portion of the public believed a trillion wasn’t enough. How Many Is a Trillion? 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z For those who worry that economists are obsessed with efficiency, to the exclusion of everything else, this is grist to the mill. The worldly wonks 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Before being "maritally coerced", Pryce was a successful economist, one of the best in her field. Why I won't be reading Vicky Pryce's prison memoir 2013-05-14T15:06:56Z A few years ago, a group of economist looked at more than a hundred Fortune 500 firms, trying to figure out what predicted how much money the C.E. made. R.I.P. Marvin Miller, baseball’s FDR 2012-11-28T17:26:00Z The economists’ recommendations didn’t all point in the same direction, either. Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Some economists have argued that in a time of slack the multiple should be bigger, because there’s more capacity to respond to the extra demand. What can we learn from the Great Depression? 2012-08-27T11:45:00Z Paul Donovan, chief economist at UBS Global Wealth Management, said businesses are betting that consumers will go along because they know about supply bottlenecks and higher energy prices. Big food raking in huge profits from price hikes as US hunger persists 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Famed economist Milton Friedman once promised that there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and he was right. Why America hates its poor 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z The unlikely best seller by the French economist Thomas Piketty, “Capital in the 21st Century,” harks back to Marx’s work, examining historical trends toward inequality in wealth. Claiming a Copyright on Marx? How Uncomradely 2014-05-01T02:53:35Z “Advice and Dissent,” Mr. Blinder makes clear, is not a call for politicians to behave like economists. ‘Advice and Dissent’ Review: What They Don’t Teach in Econ 101 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z An economist who lost his research grants, Hank tried to make up the difference with his wife’s money — hence her insistence that Marlene keep clear of her father. Theater Review: ‘What Rhymes With America’ at Linda Gross Theater 2012-12-13T03:00:12Z Q. What strikes me in Europe is that those who say Europe isn’t democratic are both the populist right and economists of the left. The ‘Submission’ of Michel Houellebecq: Interview Excerpts 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z He followed a parallel career as an economist and served in past governments as a member of Parliament, an economic adviser and a culture minister. Jos? Antonio Abreu Leads El Sistema in Venezuela 2012-03-01T13:00:00Z Known informally as “game theory,” its principles have been outlined in Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, written by von Neumann in collaboration with Princeton economist Oskar Morgenstern and first published in 1944. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z Starting with Victorians such as Marx, Mill and Marshall, Nasar attempts to link them to successive generations of economists who grappled with the promises and challenges of industrial-era capitalism. Sylvia Nasar's 'Grand Pursuit' devalued by errors 2011-09-07T20:10:05Z “If I am forced to choose only one book for the president, it would be hard to leave out ‘King Lear,’” says the Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen, whose forthcoming memoir is “Home in the World.” Why the Nobel-Winning Economist Amartya Sen Recommends ‘King Lear’ 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z An economist at the Luxembourg Income Study Centre and the City University of New York proposes a bold and interesting new theory. High fliers 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z If global warming continues at current rates, however, Solomon Hsiang, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues foundthat it would impact our economy in a huge way. Parenting the climate-change generation 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Blinder cites two measures to show what can be accomplished when economists and politicians work together. ‘Advice and Dissent’ Review: What They Don’t Teach in Econ 101 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Stocks were breaking a six-day losing streak on encouraging news from China and an optimistic report from a group of economists. The making of the term ‘pink slime’ 2012-05-21T18:24:00Z The most recent poll of these top economists asked if the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — the stimulus — reduced unemployment. Paul Krugman: What the GOP doesn’t know can hurt you 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z But what the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal called “An American Dilemma” — the legacy of African enslavement and forms of white supremacy — remains polarizing. Hollywood, Separate and Unequal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z On Wednesday at 8 p.m., for example, the economist Thomas Piketty joins Paul Krugman, a Nobel laureate and columnist for The New York Times, and Joseph Stiglitz, also a Nobel winner. Spare Times Listings for Feb. 27-March 5 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Yet its reputation as an intellectual and cultural hub still lingers — five Nobel Prize winners are associated with the city, including the economist Amartya Sen and the poet-novelist-painter-songwriter Rabindranath Tagore. 36 Hours in Kolkata, India 2012-11-22T15:12:44Z Campaigners for Brexit railed against liberal elites—the economists, academics and journalists who warned of its consequences. The world has become obsessed with elites 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Department of Labor economist David Card studied the effect of the Boatlift on Miami and found that, despite the low-skilled workforce increasing by over 7 percent, the city quickly absorbed it. Immigrants will save us 2012-08-04T16:00:00Z Williams aspires to what the economist Glenn Loury calls “racially transcendent humanism,” without abandoning the identity issues about which Coates has spoken so forcefully. How Moving to France and Having Children Led a Black American to Rethink Race 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z “As we feared, the Italian election resulted in a hung parliament,” said Anatoli Annenkov, economist with SG Global Economics in London. Review Show moves to BBC4 monthly slot in arts revamp 2013-02-26T13:26:00Z The BBC commissioned the "blue-skies" report to explore future funding options, featuring views from a panel of independent economists, media experts and academics. BBC to argue for rise in licence fee 2014-03-10T12:26:59Z I’m not an economist, so maybe this idea is an unsophisticated one. Should We Pay to Enter Bookstores? 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z What unites all of these thinkers, from the economist Ha-Joon Chang to the “sonic research” collective AUDiNT, is their shared desire to conjure a different world. What We’re Reading This Summer 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Appelbaum observes that economists gained unprecedented power and influence beginning in the 1970s, and that their free-market ideas contributed to many of the problems now plaguing countries around the world. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z According to Brennan and his allies, economists agree almost unanimously that free trade boosts a nation’s overall welfare. On Choosing Trump and Being Bad 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Stiglitz: The inequality crisis Topics: , Inequality, Nobel Prize, , Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, one of America’s most prescient voices, wrote an article for Vanity Fair several months before Occupy Wall Street was born. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z The relationship between democracy and capitalism is a subject of endless debate among historians and economists. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z “This is a passion,” the designer Nicholas Raefski, who trained as an economist, said during his sophomore presentation at New York Men’s Day on Friday. Men’s Wear Hustles to Stay in the Game 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z She claims, for instance, that economists who failed to predict the financial crisis fell into a single intellectual silo. Blighting the horizon 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z An economist could probably put that in better perspective, in terms of carbon savings to the planet, as well as money savings to the producer and to us. For the equivalent of $6.25 a bottle, this Chilean cab will be the life of the party 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Lange’s photographs of the unemployed quickly attracted attention, most significantly from Paul Taylor, a political economist at the University of California, Berkeley, who studied farm labor. Empathy and Artistry: Rediscovering Dorothea Lange 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z The “Laffer curve” helped make its author that rare economist who migrated from policy discussions to popular culture. Tax-cut guru still says he’s right about Trump, Truss and trickle-down 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z And of course economists weren’t responsible for everything; there were big cultural and political changes afoot as well. Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Without any formal schooling, they are psychologists, sociologists and economists — tirelessly attuned to the shifts in a shopkeeper’s voice, a guard’s eyes or a crowd’s murmurings. Review | Ishmael Beah’s memoir revealed the realities of child soldiers. His fiction shows the humanity of homeless kids. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Less than 24 hours after Mr. Trump’s unexpected victory, travel experts and economists were asked to try and read the tea leaves. What Impact Will Trump Have on Tourism? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z "Our economists tell us it's the worst return on investment of any of the tax-credit programs," said Rep. Paul "Skip" Stam, the Republican speaker pro tem of the North Carolina House of Representatives. Are film subsidies worth it? 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z Wine economist and University of Puget Sound professor emeritus Veseth searches the globe to find the best, worst, cheapest and most expensive wines. Wine to the max, Puget Sound history, a kid who ‘can’ 2014-01-06T21:30:20Z But we must not only think of them but also insist that economists and politicians pull out of their reveries and take action before it is too late. Gatsby and the way we live now 2013-05-31T16:27:58Z Rowling also chose to hide herself behind a surname shared with a literary and public figure who had the same initials as her: the economist JK Galbraith. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith – review 2013-07-18T11:42:26Z For instance, as behavioral economist Dan Ariely illustrates in his book “The Upside of Irrationality,” you might consider sending a few dollars to victims of a tsunami far away. How to raise kinder, less entitled kids (according to science) 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Wilson introduces us to psychologists, economists and others who, he says, use the insights of cultural evolution, if not always the language, to offer strong advice about how to improve the world. Books of The Times: ?The Neighborhood Project? by David Sloan Wilson - Review 2011-08-31T22:00:25Z Your work as an economist has focused on welfare and social justice. Why the Nobel-Winning Economist Amartya Sen Recommends ‘King Lear’ 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Most recent big histories are by geographers, economists, psychologists and political scientists, many writing under the guiding framework of biological evolution. What if Everything You Learned About Human History Is Wrong? 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z With the confidence of an economist who believes in market incentives with all his being, he figured that if it tasted good, she would eat it. An Economist?s Theories Plot a Course for Good Food 2012-04-10T20:44:28Z "It continues to be a highly polarized market, with a relatively small number of artists, buyers and sellers accounting for a large share of value," said Clare McAndrew, a cultural economist who wrote the report. Global art sales continue to soar; China still among top markets 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The economist Kevin Lancaster hypothesized that consumers derive happiness not from a product they might buy but from its characteristics. "Gluten-free water" shows absurdity of trend in labeling what’s absent 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z For "Madagascar," Rogers says, an economist friend "gave me essentially an undergraduate degree in microeconomic theory." Black History stories travel to Liberia, Darfur, Rome and Texas 2011-01-20T22:48:47Z “I wonder how much of this was fortuitous,” said Steven Blitz, the chief economist at ITG Investment Research, a brokerage firm in New York. How Sotheby’s Found a Path to Higher Profits 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Of course, economists and economic historians these days are discouraged from writing books. Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z He’s forthright in recognizing that, with their emphasis on efficiency, economists are imperfect players in the political realm. ‘Advice and Dissent’ Review: What They Don’t Teach in Econ 101 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z At stake is a share in the booming global cultural industry, set to balloon more than 40 percent by 2020 to more than $9 trillion, economists say. 'Cool Japan' struts the runways at Fashion Week in Tokyo 2013-10-18T03:44:53Z The Center draws on work by more than 50 economists, including three Nobel Prize winners, and looks at cost-effective ways to fight everything from climate change to malaria. Violence at home costs $8 trillion a year, worse than war: study 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z But movement isn’t happening as quickly as it could, said Pedro Piris-Cabezas, senior director for global transportation and lead senior economist at the Environmental Defense Fund, a New York-based nonprofit environmental group. Could Air Someday Power Your Flight? Airlines Are Betting on It. 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Most economists will readily concede that GDP wasn't designed to be the sole gauge of economic success. Authors dubious that economic growth leads to happiness 2011-12-08T21:37:04Z In Mr. Ferguson’s case these are legion: the investment bankers who enriched themselves trading dubious securities built on shaky debt, the politicians who enabled the practice and the academic economists who provided intellectual cover. Film: Documentaries (in Name Only) of Every Stripe 2010-10-13T18:08:00Z Even as stock indexes soared and profits swelled, there were always at least a few investors, economists and government officials who warned that the frenzied speculation was leading to the abyss. | 'Inside Job': Dissecting the Wall Street Meltdown 2010-10-07T16:57:00Z The Austrian economists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries endorsed progressive taxation and the welfare state, and Schumpeter even served briefly as finance minister in his country’s first socialist-led government, in 1919. Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z While the bond purchases never set off wildfires of inflation, as many critics warned they would, economists and financial analysts remain divided about how much economic stimulus was provided. The Fed took bold steps to boost the economy. Will undoing one of them rattle markets? 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Instead in his new book he wants to show that economists, often unnoticed or scorned by the public, are actually the plumbers of modern society. The worldly wonks 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z A recent study by three Harvard economists found that, using comparable benefit packages, Medicare Advantage was 9 percent more cost-efficient than traditional Medicare. Could Private Insurers Make Traditional Medicare More Efficient? 2012-08-21T04:07:16Z Though restaurateurs might not see it this way, from an economist’s perspective, “The good news is, it’s as easy to close a restaurant as it is to open one,” said Wheaton. Another restaurant closes. That doesn’t mean the industry is headed for a crash. 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Remember the episode of The Simpsons in which Homer gets fired from the nuclear plant and becomes an economist? Book Review: Homer Economicus: The Simpsons and Economics by Joshua Hall 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Seven years ago the French economist Thomas Piketty released “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” a magnum opus on income inequality. Thomas Piketty Turns Marx on His Head 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Much of his time was spent disagreeing with other radicals, attacking Proudhon in particular, whom he likened to one of the “bourgeois economists”. False consciousness 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z After talking to a lot of economists and public health experts, I think it’s reasonable to expect a penny-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks to reduce consumption at least a little. Is a soda tax the solution to America’s obesity problem? 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Actually, the Bush name does show up in Hubbard’s bio—he was his chief economist for awhile. We’ve been brainwashed 2012-06-14T17:21:00Z Parke Wilde, an agricultural economist at Tufts’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and a co-author of the paper reporting the study, floats two possible explanations. Perspective | Can making vegetables cheaper improve our health? 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Julio Guzman is in a tightly contested race in Lima, where he’s risen from an unknown economist to a political star with a real chance at winning. She was your typical D.C. 30-something. Now she might become Peru’s first lady. 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Except he’s talking about the American economist Milton Friedman, of the University of Chicago, whose prescriptions Pinochet followed. ‘The Cordillera of Dreams’ Review: From the Heights to the Depths 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z That was the finding of three Harvard economists, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association this month. Fact-Checking the Obama Campaign's Defense of its $716 Billion Cut to Medicare 2012-08-16T05:46:39Z Ms. Sweezy’s marriage to Paul Sweezy, the influential leftist economist, ended in divorce, as did a brief earlier marriage to Bill House. Nancy Sweezy, Savior of Jugtown Pottery, Dies at 88 2010-02-26T04:44:00Z A: Julie Wood, who manages public relations for GE Appliances, consulted with a home economist on the company’s cooking team and wrote back. How to remove stains in the microwave 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Finally, there’s the actress Sutton Foster’s crocheting memoir, “Hooked,” and — speaking of translations, and monetary policy — the French economist Thomas Piketty’s “Time for Socialism.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z His father retired as an economist at Decision Economics in New York. Lisa Hill, Theodore Ellis 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z The analytical tools employed by mainstream economists steered them toward prioritizing efficiency over equality, market mechanisms over nonmarket ones and consumers over producers. Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z The study, by independent economists and statisticians from France's national statistics institute Insee, also used official customs data. French fashion flags its economic importance 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z The airline industry is hardly alone in making their customers run the numbers carefully, as University of Richmond transportation economist George Hoffer notes. Perspective | As airline revenue from extra fees increases, so does consumer ire 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z The economist, campaigner and author Andrew Simms works in a rather different universe, accessible via the offices of the New Economics Foundation. Cancel the Apocalypse by Andrew Simms – review 2013-02-28T11:00:01Z This could be what economists call a “demographic dividend”, creating a high worker-to-dependent ratio—or it could be a time bomb. We’re not gonna take it 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z For economists, this dispute cuts to the core of the most macro question there is: what monetary system offers the best route to a more prosperous future for the most people? Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z Bart Watson, chief economist for the nonprofit Brewers Association, says that helps explain why portfolios are bursting at the seams. In the hunt for the next hot beer, it’s harder to find the good old standbys 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Most of that increase is due to the price of jet fuel and other economic causes, but some of it is due to the Max, according to Hayley Berg, the firm's economist. Ground Max jets could contribute to higher summer fares 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Jones, an economist, also believes that the value of diamonds is inflated through marketing and rationing. Who Needs a Ring to Propose When There Are Puppies and Paintings? 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z In 1926, the economist George Taylor postulated that women’s skirts get shorter as the economy strengthens and drop as the market declines. The Best Cookbooks of 2019 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z A friend of mine is an economist who studies student debt. How I learned to love my $95,000 student debt 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z While an economist for Wolfe's estate testified that works that include "Stairway" earned gross revenues of nearly $60 million in the past five years, defense witnesses whittled that down. Backstage pass to making of Led Zeppelin's epic 'Stairway' 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z So we find this in other things, in avocados, we find this in bananas, it's a function really of, as economists would say, specialization, and highly optimized supply chain. Love local and sustainable food? In the future data will drive more decisions than desire 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z That public health risk may bolster the argument for considering a cashless society, a perennial and controversial proposal that recently received a plug from economist Kenneth Rogoff in his new book, “The Curse of Cash.” Dirty dollars: The public health case for a cashless society 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z He dubbed a sensitive socialite the “Hothouse Flower” and an economist whose accent and muscles I swooned over the “French Übermensch.” If a Rat Falls Into Your Bed, Call Your Lover’s Boyfriend 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z This website, run by David M. Rothschild, an economist with Microsoft Research, aggregates and analyzes data from prediction markets like Britain's Betfair and the Hollywood Stock Exchange. Oscars 2015: Big Data number crunchers try their hand at calling the awards 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z And as any economist will tell you, you’re more likely to be an outrageous flirt when faced with a thick market. 20,000 lesbians in the desert: welcome to the Dinah, a world without men 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Lyons, a former chairman of the BBC Trust and an economist, spent much of his career running local authorities. Labour: let cities grow by lifting the cap on councils' borrowing 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Her book is a stark warning to towns and countries facing similar trends, and a lesson in how much economists can miss. When a Factory Relocates to Mexico, What Happens to Its American Workers? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z “Most of the burden is shouldered by women,” said Francesco Grillo, a political economist and managing director of Vision and Value, a consulting firm. Women will get equal pay … in 118 years 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z To mark the festival's 25th birthday a panel of 25 writers, economists and thinkers will be mulling 25 questions under the rubric "the way we live now" before a live audience and with online contributions. Hay book fest marks 25th at "Woodstock of the mind" 2012-05-24T15:07:35Z One works in a homeless shelter; others include a writer, a therapist and a Georgetown economist. The bankruptcy of liberal America: ‘The Mandibles,’ by Lionel Shriver 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z What are we to think of economists after all this? Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Every farmer, wholesaler, dispensary owner and economist WW talked to for this story said that if interstate weed sales became legal, Oregon’s oversupply problem would go away. How do you move mountains of unwanted weed? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Thomas Piketty, a French economist, set the benchmark in 2014 when his book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, was published in English and became a bestseller. The new wave 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The dollar has gained notably against the euro and some economists believe it may reach parity — something not seen in 20 years — by year end. How to Get the Most Bang for Your Buck 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z In the tradition of Tocqueville, the Swedish economist was hired by the Carnegie Corporation to bring a foreigner’s impartial eye to America’s racial scene in the late 1930s. ‘Ghetto,’ by Mitchell Duneier 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z As ministers and economists struggle to find a basis for a successful new economy, Hytner's achievements offer some useful signposts. Nicholas Hytner's National Theatre offers a template for British business 2013-04-06T23:06:26Z A wide range of economists and activists, however, are looking for ways to loosen the rules in a productive way. It’s the Economy: So You Think You Can Be a Hair Braider? 2012-06-12T19:07:04Z While such a reform would be legislatively simple, and enjoys wide consensus among economists from both sides of the spectrum, it won’t be politically easy. How Employer-Sponsored Insurance Drives Up Health Costs 2012-05-12T16:05:34Z You never hear economists pegging a market forecast to their lengths, as they do with skirts, or magazines celebrating “It” pants, as they do with bags and shoes. Front Row: The Designer Alvin Valley Is Poised for a Comeback 2012-08-15T23:42:39Z Statistics can’t do justice to the “Game of Thrones” effect on Northern Ireland’s economy, said economist Graham Brownlow, from Queens University Belfast. ‘Game of Thrones’ puts Northern Ireland on the map 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z It's an example of what economists call an O-ring technology, harking back to the rubber seals whose catastrophic failure caused the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986. About one-third of the food Americans buy is wasted 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z When it comes to trade liberalization, for instance, he says that economists should focus on its value to “producers”—businesses and their workers—rather than highlighting only consumer benefits. ‘Advice and Dissent’ Review: What They Don’t Teach in Econ 101 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z He also led in creating the ill-fated euro, which has exacerbated so many of Europe’s current economic problems, as American economists predicted it would. “The Intouchables”: Racial comedy, French style 2012-05-22T20:45:00Z Suresh Naidu, a Columbia University economist who also studies slavery, said economists would call for even more quantitative evidence for Mr. Baptist’s arguments but said his book was a “great interpretation of slavery.” 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Home economists helped justify their role in the education system by teaching how proper eating would avoid life-threatening diseases. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z Here is an exchange from his show about fiscal stimulus and its relation to job creation with the mild-mannered AFL-CIO chief economist Ron Blackwell: Ron Blackwell: Why don’t you let me finish my thought? How Fox News created a new culture of idiots 2012-10-28T12:00:00Z The economists attribute this to a failure of capitalism, arguing that healthcare and the free market are incompatible. Deaths of despair: why America’s medical industry explains working-class suicides 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z A group of progressive academics, lawyers and economists have argued that a narrowing number of employers has limited options for workers and negatively affected their pay. Will the Biggest Publisher in the United States Get Even Bigger? 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Some economists reckon that a boom in skyscraper construction artificially forces up the price of land; developers want to build an even taller building than their rivals, so they furiously compete for plots. The up and up 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Martin is a member of a small but growing band of heterodox economists who argue that mainstream "neoclassical" economics is seriously flawed. Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin – review 2013-06-05T06:00:11Z “Almost everything now is transacting,” said Barry M. Massarsky, an economist who specializes in calculating the value of music catalogs on behalf of investors. A $550 Million Springsteen Deal? It’s Glory Days for Catalog Sales. 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z The British economist and the president were not equal in the task, nor was Keynes really Roosevelt’s adviser, as is implied; indeed Mr Rauchway himself shows that they met only occasionally. FDR for beginners 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z A study from behavioral economists at the University of Chicago and Columbia University showed that preset tip prices in taxis generates higher tips. 10%? 20%? Apps Are Changing How We Tip 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z This enabled many in Corporate America to breathe a sigh of relief as lead economists predicted that a shutdown would affect the national economy and slow spending leading into the holiday season. No one should go hungry while Republicans are "playing partisan games with peoples' lives" 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z This gives economists hope for a recovery, in addition to February news from the Department of Commerce that housing starts were up 2.8% in January. Where Home Prices Are Rising 2010-02-24T23:20:00Z Fishbach of the Great Whale Conservancy says he’d been contemplating the economic value of whales for a long time before he met Chami, but having an economist on the whales’ side is a windfall. An economist quantifies how valuable whales are to fighting climate change 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Sociologists, economists and many others have analysed exhaustively why women don’t get certain types of job or progress beyond certain levels, and why gender pay gaps exist. Paula Principle: why women work below their abilities | Tom Schullere 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z She met her husband, an economist who had worked for the Treasury Department and the Social Security Administration and who shared her progressive politics, on a blind date in Washington. Zelda Fichandler, a Matriarch of Regional Theater, Dies at 91 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The remarkable story of Lin Yifu, the Taiwanese defector who swam across the strait to become the World Bank’s chief economist and later a cheerleader for China’s economic prosperity, provides a strong narrative thread. ‘Age of Ambition’ and ‘Leftover Women’ Gauge Social Upheaval 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z The film's director, Charles Ferguson, used "Inside Job" to grill economists and business leaders on who was responsible for the financial chaos. Hooper earns top DGA prize for `King's Speech' 2011-01-30T11:48:09Z Procrastination has become a hot subfield in economics, but if we asked three economists about procrastination, we might get five different opinions. Procrastination rules 2012-07-02T01:00:00Z Like Roosevelt, they have rightly ignored those economists who warned their actions would lead to runaway inflation. FDR for beginners 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz criticized Trump for failing to address the climate emergency beyond a commitment that the U.S. will join the trillion trees initiative. Trump mentions little on climate at meeting of leaders in Switzerland 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z "They do risk shooting themselves in the foot," said Nielsen, UniCredit's chief economist. Unpopular immigration boom helps Britain to face aging problem 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Part third-world cheerleading and part profile of Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist whose bank upended traditional models to offer small loans to the poor, the film throngs with smiling faces. Movie Review: ?Bonsai People,? a Documentary About Muhammad Yunus 2012-02-09T23:42:11Z These are, as Leo Damrosch writes in “The Club,” arguably “the greatest British critic, biographer, political philosopher, historian and economist of all time.” Review | ‘The Club’ spotlights the stars of 18th-century British culture — and invites some new members 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z The former Hawaii Tourism Authority exec and UH Assistant Dean penned the report with James Mak, UH professor of economics emeritus, and Paul Brewbaker, a veteran economist for the Bank of Hawaii. Hawaii at a tourism 'tipping point,' travel experts claim 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z When economists asked the citizens of a Swiss village if they would accept being designated a nuclear-waste storage site, 51 percent said yes. Money and Morals Sharing the Stage With Shakespeare 2013-06-18T21:31:46Z Waxing, manicures, blowouts, Botox, trainers: When economists run the Fashion Week numbers, do they even calculate for the primping economy? Fashion Diary: Fashion Diary: Tinseltown in New York 2012-02-18T00:11:19Z Mr. Houellebecq had suspended all book promotion after his friend Bernard Maris, an economist, was killed in the attack on Jan. 7. Houellebecq Speaks Out About Novel on Heels of Charlie Hebdo Attack 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z The economist preens; the Shakespearean knows that “all scholarly endeavor was eventually . . . tucked . . . into endless paper beds, installed within tombstone covers and seldom disturbed.” “The Shakespeare Requirement” Is a Sad-Professor Satire That Burns with Moral Anger 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Not in the face of the voluminous research carried out by the eminent economist Professor David Blanchflower, who studied data from 132 countries as he gauged the relationship between wellbeing and age. I thought I had hit the age of peak happiness. How wrong I was 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z "The arrest of the director before a trial is a clearly excessive measure," wrote Alexei Kudrin, a liberal economist and former finance minister, on social media. Prominent Russian theater director detained in embezzlement case 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z It was like a clown car of economist commentary! Larry Wilmore smacks down Donald Trump over outrageous “university” scam 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z In a polemic that has echoes in the present day, he concludes: “The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.” Freedom fighter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z She previously worked as an economist for the World Bank in Washington. Judith Graves, Maryellen Madden 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z Geological Survey economists conducted the spending analysis report for the National Parks Service. Report: 1M visitors Oklahoma’s national parks 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z "The Swiss government thought about falling turnout like an economist," Thompson wrote. Behind the humble "I Voted" sticker's enduring appeal — and whether you'll get one this year 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z More fundamentally, many labour market economists have challenged the notion that robots will steal our jobs. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z “I regard her as one of the three or four most influential conservative activists in the country,” says writer and economist Stephen Moore, who advised Trump’s campaign and frequently sees Thomas at conservative confabs. What is Ginni Thomas saying now? The evolution of an unusually outspoken Supreme Court spouse 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Except if any of them had talked to an economist, a different picture might have emerged. Another restaurant closes. That doesn’t mean the industry is headed for a crash. 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Harry Truman captured the gulf between politicians and their economic advisers when, as president, he quipped that he needed a one-handed economist. ‘Advice and Dissent’ Review: What They Don’t Teach in Econ 101 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z The African nation figures in at the edges — it's where one unseen character spent much of his life working as a Western economist, and where another disappears. Black History stories travel to Liberia, Darfur, Rome and Texas 2011-01-20T22:48:47Z French economist Thomas Piketty’s learned treatise on capitalism and how it is contributing to rising inequality worldwide. What are the most-checked-out books at Seattle Public Library? 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z By the middle of the 20th century, food scientists, chemists, home economists, consumer researchers and experimental psychologists forged a new discipline to address these questions: sensory science. Food for thought: will an era of hyper-personalized meals leave a sour taste? 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Unlike later generations of economists he knew that natural resources are finite. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z One politician uses a statistic to back up her argument; a newspaper uses another fact to refute it; an economist uses a third to prove them both wrong. A crash course in understanding numbers 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Modern economists tend to think of money as a real, not a nominal, issue; expanding the money supply may raise prices but not affect the volume of goods and services being traded. Means of exchange 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Other interesting professions included pizza chef, economist, journalist and someone who helps dolphins. January Class of KidsPost: Oyster-Adams fourth-graders 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Alan Blinder is wonderfully insightful, soft-spoken economist with excellent street cred. Dear Class of 2012, life isn’t easy 2012-06-26T20:49:00Z He prided himself on making arcane debates among economists and business leaders understandable, often using an anecdotal or irreverent approach to explain a complicated issue. George Goodman, TV’s ‘Adam Smith,’ Dies at 83 2014-01-03T18:55:35Z While the government credits the one-child policy with aiding economic growth, demographers and economists say it is now one of China’s greatest threats. Will China abandon its one-child policy? 2012-07-12T16:25:00Z The economists then asked how they would vote if the government compensated them for accepting the site with an annual payment. Michael Sandel: 'We need to reason about how to value our bodies, human dignity, teaching and learning' 2012-05-27T19:01:01Z The book is by the economist Thomas Sowell, who grew up in Harlem in the nineteen-forties and is now a fellow at the Hoover Institution, at Stanford. The Misunderstanding of J. R. Smith 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Taleb's two previous books – Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan – drew their appeal from being more narrowly focused on the failures of economists and financial traders to understand the game they were in. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z The son of a software engineer and an economist, his parents met at Harvard and and had three daughters and CK. Louis CK: laughter ends as years of allegations dog comedy superstar 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The methodology and data of his research were discredited by other economists, but Levitt stuck to his original conclusion linking race and crime: fewer African-American children correlates to less crime. Freakonomics author Steven Levitt: Corporate shill? 2012-06-16T15:59:00Z The American economist Brad de Long was the first to notice that for as long as the Soviet Union survived, Hobsbawm believed that humanity was progressing in some form, as a Marxist should. Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century by Eric Hobsbawm – review 2013-03-31T08:00:06Z It’s a role he still plays, connecting emerging talents with curators and helping them navigate an art market that remains opaque even to sophisticated economists. He Collects the Art of Fellow Cuban Exiles, but Miami Is Home 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z After Trump’s unexpected victory, travel experts and economists were asked to read the tea leaves. What impact will Trump have on tourism? 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z The economists seek clarity on the organisation of financial systems: "What is the wizarding economy based on?" Harry Potter and the end of a pop-culture phenomenon 2011-07-12T18:59:01Z The trade deficit was also wider than the $48 billion expected by economists surveyed by Briefing.com. Stocks start day higher, up more than 100 2011-08-11T13:58:00Z The White House and independent economists have warned that the fragile U.S. economic recovery could take a hit if the payroll tax cut is allowed to expire. Government shutdown looms 2011-12-14T19:12:06Z Last year, Turner’s self-portrait replaced economist Adam Smith’s on Britain’s 20-pound note. Famed British seascape by J.M.V. Turner up for auction 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z This ignores the work of behavioural economists and biologists. The big fight 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z Taiwan’s far more spectacular rise to affluence was steered by electrical engineers who consulted economists and enlisted market forces but were never ruled by them. Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z There’s another interesting Sunday Effect finding too, this one uncovered by chance by the economist Benjamin Edelman, also of the Harvard Business School. Don’t trust the Godless 2012-07-01T15:00:00Z I’m not an economist myself, but I definitely think there’s more to this technology-based Schumpeterian tradition than there is to these academic models that pay very little attention to technology, except as an afterthought. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z I will be only one of a half dozen trained economists at the Thanksgiving table. Here's What Larry Summers Is Thankful For 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The radical economist Charles Eisenstein noticed something similar about a beer ad. The truth about corporate lies 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z In a Friday column that ricochets from anger to despair and back again, the New York Times economist mourns the first victim of the Trump era: the truth. Paul Krugman laments our brave new post-truth world 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Today’s America is wealthier than the one the economists set to work on in the 1970s, but it is also less equal, more prone to financial crisis and slower growing. Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z In the Amazon series, he starts as a CIA economist examining the terrorists’ money trail. Jack Ryan Returns, This Time on Amazon 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Nixon knew that Moynihan was not “one of us”; his aim was to balance his dangerous recruit with the stolid virtues of Arthur Burns, a conservative economist. The odd couple 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z His father, an economist, spent nearly 20 years in prison, a victim of the Stalinist purges. Eldar Ryazanov, Russian Film Director Known for His Satire, Dies at 88 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Evridge, the economist, grew up in Kodiak and usually fishes the Copper River himself. A Dwindling Catch Has Alaskans Uneasy 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Conrad, an economist who conducts research on economic inequality, will start on Jan. 15. ArtsBeat: California Academic Named Director of MacArthur Fellowship Program 2012-06-21T16:35:08Z Ms. Tapiero, an international economist who was born in New York, is a descendant of the Corcos family, with a lineage stretching back centuries and mostly extending across the Mediterranean and the Americas. This Passover Recipe Tells the Story of a Family Tree 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z But I’m hardly the first economist to moan about out-of-control consumerism. Half a billion on Halloween pet costumes is latest sign of America’s out-of-control consumerism 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z This is a question best left for economists, ethicists and other social engineers. ArtsBeat: Dick Teresi Talks About the Line Between Life and Death 2012-04-12T18:04:38Z “They knew I was an economist working for the World Bank. Now I’m trying to sell blankets on the internet. Something must be wrong.” We Love to Be Smushed 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z A fine and celebratory book might have been made of that: the scientists, doctors, dentists, painters, musicians, philosophers, soldiers, economists, politicians, explorers who have immeasurably benefited humankind. Heroes and Exiles: Gay Icons Through the Ages by Tom Ambrose | Book review 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z As an economist who studies the link between health and socioeconomic status, I’ve explored the extensive research demonstrating the importance of a clean environment to the well-being of children. Cutting the EPA budget puts babies at risk – and makes little economic sense 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Harvard economist Richard Freeman says today’s young adults “will be scarred and they will be called ‘the lost generation’—in that their careers would not be the same had they avoided this economic disaster.” Bill Clinton vs. Lena Dunham: The Shakespearean battle of boomers and millennials 2014-03-01T21:00:00Z The likely repeal of the Affordable Care Act and continued angst over drug prices mean health economists like us will be asked to provide answers to inform policy debates. How academics can help shape the health care industry 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Bruce Weinberg, an economist at Ohio State, found that economists who won the Nobel Prize later in life were creative synthesizers of information they accumulated in one area over a long time. Creativity may be key to healthy aging. Here are ways to stay inspired. 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Another was a skepticism of the mathematical tools used by neoclassical economists elsewhere. Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z We meet Irving Fisher, the Yale economist, who argued, that “individual action would never give rise to a system of city parks, or even to any useful system of streets.” Books of The Times: ?Grand Pursuit? by Sylvia Nasar - Review 2011-12-01T22:20:40Z Jonah Hill co-stars as an economist who helps turn the A's into a contender using statistical methods that identify undervalued athletes. 'Lion King' chases off Brad Pitt to remain No. 1 2011-09-25T17:29:08Z As the summer of 1929 drew to a close, the celebrated Yale university economist Irving Fisher took to the pages of the New York Times to opine about Wall Street. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Given growing uncertainty about the economy, Michael P. Niemira, chief economist at The International Council of Shopping Centers trade group, on Tuesday trimmed his sales forecast for June by a 0.5 percentage point. AIDS test at drugstores 2012-06-26T13:17:00Z “There is an enormous amount of pent-up demand,” Bernard Baumohl, the chief global economist at the Economic Outlook Group said in a recent interview with The New York Times, “and now it is being unleashed.” Colorful Clothes as an Economic Indicator 2010-04-14T23:54:00Z “Very rich people will always use money to maintain their political and economic power,” the Nobel-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz writes in his review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z An enthusiastic traveler and “leading home economist,” Ms. DeKnight traveled throughout the United States to learn the culinary traditions of Black American home cooks, and to gain a deeper understanding of international cuisines and flavors. The Ebony Test Kitchen, Where Black Cuisine Was Celebrated, Is Reborn 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Levitt is assumed to be a harmless, quirky pop economist for trivia nerds. Freakonomics author Steven Levitt: Corporate shill? 2012-06-16T15:59:00Z Historians are look at how things actually are, rather than economists who are interested in how things ought to be. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z It was Keynes, after all, who said that if economists were so smart — if they could predict the future better than the rest of us — they’d all be filthy rich. John Maynard Keynes Can’t Save You Now 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z The author of this intricately argued book, the economist Robert L. Heilbroner, says “Yes.” Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Economists look at county-level, not individual patient data One thing that’s remarkable about the health outcome studies done by economists is that they almost never look at the outcomes of actual individual patients. Economists Claim Medicaid's Health Outcomes are Great. Or Do They? 2012-08-01T06:38:59Z Matthew Whittaker, chief economist at the Resolution Foundation, said the trend towards a low-wage economy for the young threw up big policy challenges. Pay gap widens with one in three young UK workers on low pay 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z Her break comes after a Berkeley economist, Paul Taylor, who has seen her street photography, recruits her to capture images of sawmill workers. Review | How Dorothea Lange ended up capturing the Great Depression — and becoming an influential photographer 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z There I met Guy Standing, the economist and author of the term “The Precariat.” Heads around the room nodded when the term was uttered, and I thought to myself: They talk about it. Down and out in Portland: Lean seasons had always been part of my writing life, but this time I was dead broke 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Most economists who study such matters now agree with Kuttner that financial markets are prone to swing from bubble to economy-damaging bust. How Rampant Globalization Brought Us Trump 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Since the Austrian economist Joseph A. Schumpeter published “The Theory of Economic Development” in 1934, economists and governments have assumed that the industrial and business sectors are where ideas for products originate. Innovation Far Removed From the Lab 2011-02-10T00:12:30Z “The economists liked my exploration of fear,” he said. With New Triennial, Cleveland Hopes to Become the Next Venice 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Mr Khanna also ignores a trend much discussed by economists: the “reshoring” of certain economic activities to rich countries as fears grow about political instability and as China gets too expensive. Bridges versus borders 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Still, Appelbaum is undeniably correct that economists gained unprecedented power and influence starting in the 1970s, and that those with the most power and influence “occupied a narrow portion of the ideological spectrum.” Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z To those debates among economists, Robert Atkinson’s book is a very good guide. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z From their home base at the University of Chicago, these economists became influential around the world. ‘Chicagonomics’ and ‘Economics Rules’ 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z The series of 5- to 8-minute movies will feature economists and tackle big questions about the economy. Morgan Spurlock, Judd Apatow are latest to tinker with new platforms 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z The Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton, a 2015 Nobel Prize recipient, say such men are dying of drug overdoses, drink-induced liver disease and suicide — what they call deaths of despair. How the White Working Class Is Being Destroyed 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z The crooks: the investment bankers, political leaders, economists and other overseers who were supposed to be looking after our economic system. Cannes doc 'Inside Job' pegs 2008 crisis as heist 2010-05-17T15:46:00Z Earlier this year, the American economist James Galbraith, whose father, JK Galbraith, was a close friend of Kennedy, told me that "in our household Dr Strangelove was always viewed as a documentary". 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z Reagan also embraced "trickle-down" economics, a theory that tax breaks and other benefits for business will ultimately help everyone, but economists say these benefits rarely, if ever, reached the most marginalized. This unusual course examines rap lyrics about Reagan and the 1980s 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Mr Jerven’s call for economists to “abandon” complex statistical analysis of Africa, instead to focus on “deep contextual studies of history and institutions”, sounds appealing but is frustratingly vague. No fear to tread 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The economist Joseph Stiglitz reminds us that, with the stripping back of the state under Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, we lost capacity. Patterns of pain: what Covid-19 can teach us about how to be human 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Graeber is not an economist; he is an anthropologist who has done fieldwork in highland Madagascar and cops to being an anarchist who wants to see governments and corporations have less power. Are More and More People Working Meaningless Jobs? 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z But any behavioral economist will tell you that people don’t decide how to spend their money logically and abstractly. Met Changes 50-Year Admissions Policy: Non-New Yorkers Must Pay 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z “That storm naturally constrained the supply even though there were a lot of cultivators,” says Beau Whitney, senior economist for New Frontier Data, which studies the cannabis industry. How do you move mountains of unwanted weed? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z He was trained as a mathematician, but unlike more doctrinaire economists, he viewed markets as social phenomena. John Maynard Keynes Died in 1946. An Outstanding New Biography Shows Him Relevant Still. 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z On a Sunday night Ms. Pelosi, a documentary filmmaker, was at the 92 Street Y to hear her mother, Representative Nancy Pelosi, in conversation with Paul Krugman, the economist and New York Times columnist. Alexandra Pelosi Plunges Into Trump Country 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z He previously served as the chief economist of the Institute of International Finance, and as the assistant secretary for international finance at the Department of the Treasury, both in Washington. Carmen Collyns, Matthew Heiman 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z Martin Riker’s light, charming and shyly philosophical second novel, “The Guest Lecture,” details a tortured night inside the head of a young academic, an economist named Abigail. John Maynard Keynes Can’t Save You Now 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z The architect of this plan was James McGill Buchanan, a political economist who, starting in the mid-1900s, devoted his career to paving the way for a right-wing social movement. New in Paperback: ‘Democracy in Chains,’ ‘Black Mad Wheel’ 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z The economist noted that a move towards European-like working systems around the world would “result in a trade-off of up to one quarter of income gains in exchange for increased leisure time and vacation.” More vacation time just might stop global warming 2013-02-06T13:51:00Z Some economists are concerned that the plan would depress government revenues. Cain, Perry look to upstage Romney 2011-10-11T21:51:00Z What begins as an incisive critique of how economists and policymakers abandoned community ends as a dismaying illustration of the problem. An Economist’s Argument for Preserving Communities 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z She previously served on President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers as the senior economist for labor and education policy in Washington. Lisa Kahn, Michael Giacomelli 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Ha-Joon Chang, a Cambridge economist, targets his recent book, “Economics: The User’s Guide”, at those sceptical of economics. The worldly wonks 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Recently, a study by Nobel Prize-winning economists of startlingly high death rates for white, high-school–educated, middle-aged Americans concluded that this trend is linked to substance abuse and addiction, including opioid abuse and alcoholism. I’m dependent on narcotics; that doesn’t mean I’m an addict. 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Business Insider reported that a Bank of America Merrill Lynch economist, using credit card data, detailed consumers’ shift from large chains in a memo to clients. At least on Yelp, diners prefer independent restaurants over chains 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z An influential paper by two economists from MIT and one from Harvard argues that income levels in African countries today were shaped by the rate at which colonial settlers died there centuries before. No fear to tread 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Over all, though, its experts — law professors, addiction specialists, economists, behavioral researchers and former law enforcement officers — argue forcefully for decriminalization. ‘The Culture High’ Explores Marijuana Decriminalization 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z In my experience as a food economist, such “fake transparency” does nothing to inform consumers about the nature of their foods. "Gluten-free water" shows absurdity of trend in labeling what’s absent 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Martin dismisses the notion that influential economists were corrupted by close relations with banks and highly paid consultancies – the argument of Charles Ferguson's powerful documentary, Inside Job. Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin – review 2013-06-05T06:00:11Z “While economists think a price is a price, behavioral science thinks the way the price is portrayed makes a difference,” Johnson says. Perspective | The mystery of the missing airfare 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Nouriel Roubini, the economist who in 2007 became known as Dr. Doom after predicting the collapse of the housing market, actually sounded ebullient about the future of New York City Tuesday night. The Art Party Circuit Comes Roaring Back at Frieze New York 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z Agricultural economist Bruce Babcock appeared on his show, warning him that the prices of meat, dairy and eggs will increase because “American livestock are fed a corn-heavy diet.” Food corporations’ big drought play 2012-08-09T21:35:00Z “As there are fewer jobs, intensifying competition to secure those seems to be appearing in the college prep process,” said Kim Jung-woo, an economist at the Korea Labor Institute. Box set: TV drama stirs debate over South Korea's cutthroat... 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z We need to be particularly careful when examining the language of bureaucrats and economists. The war against clich? has failed 2011-01-07T12:51:33Z This revelation triggers a broader — and very basic — analysis of the modern history of American capitalism, weaving archival footage of Disneyland’s humbler beginnings with onscreen interviews that Abigail Disney conducted with economists and historians. ‘The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales’ Review: A Spotlight on Income Inequality 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z An economist, he would answer a question with: “Probability of 1.” A Single Mom Escapes the Friend Zone, One Non-Date at a Time 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z In recent years, however, economists have started to investigate a different explanation for criminal activity: physical attributes. Studying Links Between Anatomy and Crime 2010-05-10T21:46:00Z But she — and several other economists I spoke with — emphasized the difficulty of teasing out the impact of mechanization from the large pool of factors that affect price. Perspective | One big reason some foods cost so much more than others 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Abigail is more interested in the moral philosopher in Keynes than in the economist. John Maynard Keynes Can’t Save You Now 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Could this explain the economist Deaton’s documented 22 percent death rate increase among the white working class? The science of white working class pain: Trump’s appeal is rooted in the body as well as the mind 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z But he lost his job as an economist shortly before communism collapsed in 1989. African-born actor in Hungary: 'People just see me as a migrant' 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The book is guided by an economist’s sensibilities, and Nakhjavani’s lyrical novelist’s ear rarely manages to mitigate the dryness of López-Claros’s writing. Three New Takes on Feminism: In the Dorm, in the Economy and Around the World 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The bride’s father is an economist and the Robert Heilbrunn professor of finance and asset management at Columbia Business School. Diana Greenwald, Hugues Le Bras 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z An economist would look for "$" signs in this article. The 10 Best New Restaurants of 2014 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z I talk to business people and bankers and economists all the time, who are like, “Wait a minute, without growth, the middle class can’t keep up with inflation!” Don’t blame the Google bus riders: The company “doesn’t look at the employees as any more human than it does the residents of San Francisco” 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z And Biden even said at some point that, “Every economist agrees that we need this stimulus.” What can we learn from the Great Depression? 2012-08-27T11:45:00Z It also attracted Harrison "Buzz" Price, a research economist and consultant for animator and studio owner Walt Disney. In Orlando or Anaheim for a Disney vacation? Explore the cities beyond the gates, too. 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. We’ve been brainwashed 2012-06-14T17:21:00Z Today, I want to talk about the wonkier critiques of that plan from leading liberal economists. Who's Better at Running Medicare: Government, or the Private Sector? 2012-09-03T02:38:24Z “Relative to its population and income, Burma is one of the world’s smallest recipients of international assistance,” economist Joseph Stiglitz wrote during a trip to Yangon in March. Desperate for health care in Myanmar 2012-06-22T14:06:00Z Eventually, she flies to visit her deadbeat Greek dad and his childlike economist wife. The whimsical fable of Greece’s financial insolvency that you’ve been waiting for 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z More than the cutaways to Gordon Gekko and the Simpsons, it tends to be the economist’s own observations that satisfy the true wonk itch. ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ Review: Economic History, Illustrated 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Her creation fascinated a few left-wing university professors, including future New Dealer and economist Rexford Tugwell, and they taught it to their students. ‘The Monopolists’: the history behind a great board game 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z All of this was ignored by neoclassical economists. Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin – review 2013-06-05T06:00:11Z I experienced a rare moment of what economists call “irrational exuberance.” I sold my soul to Ricki Lake 2013-03-18T01:00:00Z Some women find the gender-specific term demeaning and ask that the media and economists cut it out. 9 trends from 2021 worth leaving behind 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z The report also emphasizes recent admissions from economists that corporate greed is driving inflation — which progressive organizations and experts have been stressing for months in response to the Fed's interest rate hikes. Big food raking in huge profits from price hikes as US hunger persists 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z The Commerce Department said business inventories rose 0.3 percent in June, slightly less than the 0.5 percent gain economists were looking for. Stocks calm after week's wild ride 2011-08-12T20:06:00Z I’m an economist, so I say, why not? Skin Deep: Makeup Makes Women Appear More Competent: Study 2011-10-12T22:18:30Z Much as I respect the efforts of economists and social scientists to explain the world and the intermittent efforts of politicians to change it, I trust artists and writers more. Is Our Art Equal to the Challenges of Our Times? 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Theorists like Michael Jensen, the economist whose twisting life story is a subplot here, were arguing that corporations were not sufficiently focused on their own profits. The Forces That Are Killing the American Dream 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Three decades ago, the economist Sherwin Rosen wrote a paper called The Economics of Superstars, which argued that technology would give unusually talented people in entertainment and sports access to a global market. How to have a pop culture hit like La La Land and Rae Sremmurd 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z First and foremost is something that contemporary home economists often noted: that for many years the production and preparation of food has been steadily migrating out of the home. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z To give substance a chance, he says, economists and policy specialists need to change how they “frame policy prescriptions.” ‘Advice and Dissent’ Review: What They Don’t Teach in Econ 101 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z That was a lot of overlap — I’m an economist, and what I find interesting is the ability to understand people’s decision-making. He dressed as Ziggy Stardust for Halloween. Good thing she loves David Bowie. 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Are there economists whose writing you especially admire? Why the Nobel-Winning Economist Amartya Sen Recommends ‘King Lear’ 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Like most orthodox economists, he was trained as a utilitarian. The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature by Paul Collier 2010-05-07T23:12:00Z Two weeks ago, economists saw the chances of another recession as one-in-five. Fed to keep rates low 2 more years 2011-08-09T18:24:00Z Chirinko is an economist at the University of Illinois, not a doctor or road safety expert. The big bike helmet debate: 'You don’t make it safe by forcing cyclists to dress for urban warfare' 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Many economists support that combination, saying cuts in spending should wait until the economy is stronger. Obama jobs plan may include hiring tax break 2011-08-18T00:41:00Z Classical economists, starting with Adam Smith, had assumed that nine of every 10 people on the planet would continue to, as Edmund Burke wrote, "drudge through life." Sylvia Nasar's 'Grand Pursuit' devalued by errors 2011-09-07T20:10:05Z However, among women with college degrees, the economists found the fertility rate rises to 1.88 and among women with advanced degrees to 1.96. High-fliers have more babies, according to study 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z She prefers to read, bike and compile trivia about squirrels and become a secret expert on the life and ideas of the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen, for whom she was named. Review: Facing Marriage and Befriending a Squirrel in ‘The Portable Veblen’ 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Mr Stiglitz has won a Nobel prize, served as a feather-ruffling chief economist for the World Bank and written several books with a fair claim to prescience, notably, “Globalisation and Its Discontents”, published in 2002. On course to fail 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z “The timing is wrong,” explained Robert Reich, the economist and former labor secretary, who appreciated the letter’s spirit but declined to sign it. The Harper’s ‘Letter,’ cancel culture and the summer that drove a lot of smart people mad 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z “The result is that blacks are losing the foothold they had in the middle class,” says James Parrott, chief economist of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research center in New York City. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z Even the most egalitarian economists, such as Mr Piketty, are reluctant to recommend employment guarantees and wage controls. Mind the gap 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Punset was an economist who worked for the International Monetary Fund. Spanish economist, science TV show host Punset dies at 82 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Dani Rodrik reassures those outside the profession of the helpfulness of economists, and also removes some of the wishful thinking from his colleagues. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z “Prediction markets help us understand all sorts of things about the dynamics of campaigns and the impact different events have,” said David Rothschild, an economist at Microsoft Research and the founder of prediction aggregator PredictWise.com . Here’s how to legally gamble on the 2016 race 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z These cuisines appeal to the economist in him because they’re cheap and innovative. Books of The Times: ?An Economist Gets Lunch,? by Tyler Cowen 2012-04-10T15:38:44Z THE 1920s notion of a “hemline index,” in which the economist George Taylor posited that skirt lengths rise and fall in relation to the economy, suggests that fashion is socially determined. Front Row: I.B.M. Predicts Heel Heights - Runway 2011-11-23T18:51:41Z What the economists got wrong in all their models and forecasts was their reliance on the odd notion that people are entirely driven by money. Bernard Shaw's guide to the post-crash world 2012-10-12T21:55:16Z Other guest selectors include award-winning journalist Gavin Esler who will run sessions examining "our loss of faith in institutions that have previously upheld society's values", such as the media, the Church, the government and economists. Book festival celebrates 30 years 2013-08-09T23:04:00Z Lange also took extensive field notes while photographing, and, working in the 1930s with her husband, the economist Paul Schuster Taylor, she contributed images to extensive government reports documenting social conditions during the Depression. Review | Dorothea Lange used photography to make an ugly world beautiful. She used words to give that beauty meaning. 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z An economist, Alex Tabarrok, who favors paying donors, suggests that Dr. Freeman give up his surgery fee when doing transplants, and we’ll give him “life after death” instead, perhaps in the form of a memorial. ArtsBeat: Dick Teresi Talks About the Line Between Life and Death 2012-04-12T18:04:38Z It’s not surprising that consumers scale back their travel during election years, said Zachary Sears, a senior economist at Tourism Economics, part of the research firm Oxford Economics. For Summer, Five Hot Destinations 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Thanks to Occupy Wall Street, economists and policy wonks aren’t the only ones debating the intricacies of income inequality. Motherlode Blog: 'Mom, Are We the 1 Percent?' 2011-12-19T16:18:34Z It’s time to forget the up-by-the-bootstraps fantasies of conservative economists bleating on Fox. The glamorous life of a whistleblower: Working a dead-end job for minimum wage 2014-04-25T12:15:00Z The idea that business should focus only on making money, attributed to the economist Milton Friedman, “was a simple and direct idea that took over business, banking, even corporate law,” Hubbard explained. At Columbia’s $600 Million Business School, Time to Rethink Capitalism 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Ben Graves, 31, is an economist who loves to travel to unknown spots on the map. Date Lab: They both love traveling to ‘unknown spots.’ Will they go together? 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z A small band of economists has been studying how height, weight and beauty affect the likelihood of committing — or being convicted of — a crime. Studying Links Between Anatomy and Crime 2010-05-10T21:46:00Z Mr. Donohue balances the scales by interviewing other types of working men who cook: a carpenter, a firefighter, an economist, a biochemist. Books of The Times: The Manly Art of Cooking Has Its Bards 2011-05-31T23:55:18Z The New Economy Institute, led primarily by ecologists and ecological economists, hoped to attract a few hundred participants to a gathering to be held at Bard College in June 2012. Rise of the New Economy Movement 2012-05-22T12:56:00Z Shantanu Narayen, the president and CEO of Adobe, said the DEI was developed in partnership with “leading economists and government operations” in order to provide information on inflation and digital buying trends. Pajama sales skyrocketed last month as online shoppers bought fewer actual pants 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z “I am cognizant that some economists vigorously opposed each of the changes described in this book,” Appelbaum writes. Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Actor, economist and former Republican presidential speechwriter Ben Stein is slamming Donald Trump's economic knowledge. Ben Stein Slams Donald Trump 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Wolf, a British economist and social policy wonk, was the author of the 2011 Wolf Report on vocational education. The XX Factor: How Working Women Are Creating a New Society by Alison Wolf – review 2013-04-26T08:30:01Z Carolyn Fischer, a public finance and natural resources economist, developed a clever mathematical model to show how procrastination can be in our best interests. Procrastination rules 2012-07-02T01:00:00Z "The economic data look recessionary and the Fed looks impotent," said Christopher Low, economist at FTN Financial in New York. Stocks take a beating worldwide 2011-08-05T02:12:00Z “It’s likely we are going to have more people working from home than other places,” said Ted Egan, the chief economist for the city and county of San Francisco. If Remote Work Empties Downtowns, Can Theaters Fill Their Seats? 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z The economist Robert Frank highlights a pattern that explains accelerated escalation in all sorts of interactions including debates. Infallibility battles: How to avoid those ‘I’m right and you’re wrong about everything’ fights 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The groom’s mother is a higher education economist in Washington. YJ Fischer, Daniel Schwerin 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z The Time Warner division said last week it would seek film locations outside New Zealand, a move that economists said could cost the country up to $1.5 billion. New Zealand's Hobbit crisis spurs national rallies 2010-10-25T09:08:00Z As the night wore on, I spoke to a guy who said he was a World Bank economist. Qatar, a country without a free press, hosts a D.C. party celebrating ... the free press 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z They were places “where customers discovered craft,” and helped the genre grow, said Bart Watson, chief economist for the Brewers Association trade group. Last Call for the Beer Bar? 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z These journalistic pieces by the best-selling economist examine the failure of the modern welfare state to address intensifying inequality, calling for governments to take more strenuous measures. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, called rising gas prices "the most serious immediate threat to consumer confidence and the broader economy." Gas prices' jump attests to upbeat economy 2012-03-23T01:28:00Z Robert Baade, a Lake Forest College economist who studies stadiums, said stadium authorities should steer clear of economic development, particularly a business venture without sharing any profits. Sox restaurant paid for with public funding 2011-10-27T02:00:00Z These are the figures being bandied about as economists and financial experts try to get their heads around a global phenomenon known as the “Great Wealth Transfer.” A ‘Great Wealth Transfer’ Is Coming. What Will It Mean for Art? 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z It’s this kind of sudden drop in demand, repeated in countless places and industries across America and the globe, that economists say may already be tipping the United States and the world into recession. San Francisco's flower market reels from event cancellations aimed at slowing coronavirus 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z She quotes the economist Michael Belzer, who calls trucks “sweatshops on wheels.” Books of The Times: ‘Killer on the Road’ by Ginger Strand 2012-09-04T12:00:00Z Each performance will be preceded by a debate hosted by the economist and BBC presenter Evan Davis, entitled Are we Powerless?. Manchester International Festival: Shelley, Macbeth and Massive Attack 2013-02-28T18:47:26Z "The housing market got lucky, if you want to look at it that way," says James P. Gaines, research economist at the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University. Cities Where The Recession Is Easing 2010-03-02T22:30:00Z According to Marc Levinson, an economist and author of “The Box,” standardizing the size of the containers dramatically reduced the expense to ship goods from low-cost labor centers in Asia to markets in the West. ‘The best thing since the brick’ 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Bloomberg reported recently that the national labor shortage is likely to continue through the rest of the year, based on a survey of economists by the National Association for Business Economics. Worker shortages complicate Seattle-Tacoma Airport’s bounce back to pre-pandemic travel numbers 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z Questions like these, according to the Harvard economist Benjamin M. Friedman, are essential to understanding his discipline today. The Religious Roots of Our Free Enterprise System 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Key, an agricultural economist who lives in New York City, said that his mother had always taught her children to take pride in their illustrious forebear, but not too much. Up From the Family Basement, a Little-Seen Hamilton Trove 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Many economists are great believers in the idea that everything in nature is competitive and that we should set up a society which is competitive to reflect that. My bright idea: evolution and empathy 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z This is anything but self-evident; economists, especially of the mathematical sort, are unlikely to be transfixed by the writings of St. Augustine. The Religious Roots of Our Free Enterprise System 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Into a "growth rate" that leaves economists breathless. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part One 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z Among those killed was his friend the economist Bernard Maris. Michel Houellebecq, Casually Provocative 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z “There are more options for people traveling on a Monday when they’re not traveling on business,” Hayley Berg, the economist at Hopper, said. The New Long Weekend 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z In such an environment, one might expect economists to be essential to the Beltway apparatus. ‘Advice and Dissent’ Review: What They Don’t Teach in Econ 101 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z By the 1940s, the use of redistribution to ensure that everyone had a basic standard of living was accepted by most Chicago economists. Going off the rails 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Never mind that lessons from the Great Depression and the warnings of a few farsighted economists were ignored by Wall Street in recent years, leading to another harrowing crash in 2008 and lingering fiscal woes. Books of The Times: ?Grand Pursuit? by Sylvia Nasar - Review 2011-12-01T22:20:40Z It helps that the economist recorded his sexual statistics. A man for all seasons 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z They invited more scientists to join them: a health economist, a professor from the Penn’s Department of Emergency Medicine, and a medical anthropologist. The Other Side of “Broken Windows” 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z “Every generation thinks it’s smarter than its parents and its grandparents,” one economist says. Review: ‘Boom Bust Boom,’ a Pythonesque Look at Financial Crashes 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z After more than 50 years on the speaking circuit, Laffer has a theory about economists. Tax-cut guru still says he’s right about Trump, Truss and trickle-down 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Scores and boxed sets share space on the white shelves with books by Thomas Piketty, the economist known for his studies of income inequality; James Baldwin; and Amiri Baraka. The Pianist of the Resistance Captures a Surprise Award 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z "The arrest of the director before a trial is a clearly excessive measure," wrote Alexei Kudrin, a liberal economist and former finance minister, on social media. Prominent Russian theater director detained in embezzlement case 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z After Trump’s unexpected victory, travel experts and economists were asked to read the tea leaves. What impact will Trump have on tourism? 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z |
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