Archive for June 19th, 2007
Mission Accomplished (Sort of)
Final marks delivered on final two courses (Methods 101/B, Thesis D) today.
links for 2007-06-19
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Naser Khader gik oftest solo – dr.dk/Nyheder/Politik
Forårets mest omtalte partiudbryder Naser Khader, er ifølge Altinget.dk den, der oftest har stemt imod sin egen gruppe.
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Foreign Policy: The Failed States Index 2007
For the second year in a row, Sudan tops the rankings as the state most at risk of failure.
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“Iraqi Refugees: Our Problem or Sweden’s?” By Elizabeth Ferris
There is at least one crisis emerging from Iraq that can be mitigated and controlled.
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Media Matters – The Progressive Majority: Why a Conservative America is a Myth
Media perceptions and past Republican electoral successes notwithstanding, Americans are progressive across a wide range of controversial issues, and they’re growing more progressive all the time.
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SvD: Framtid med hedern i behåll
Hederskulturer får inte demoniseras, utan måste omvandlas så att de låter sig förenas med grundläggande mänskliga rättigheter, skriver socialantropologen Unni Wikan.
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Hanne Tange: What kind of English is that? Contained and dilute communication in the global workplace — nic2006
This paper looks at intercultural communication as a social and linguistic practice in the global workplace.
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Slate Magazine – Life, Liberty, and Politicians’ Maddening Way With Words
Too many of the candidates speak in prose crammed with as many infuriating phrases as possible.
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Slate Magazine – Bogus Trend Story of the Day
If no industry can sustain 25 percent annual growth forever, why is it Page One news that the very healthy business of online retailing can’t either?
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The Creativity Exchange: Diversity and Social Capital
Moreover, our hunch is that migrants reflect particular kinds of personality types which are more likely to seek out new experiences and less likely to be rooted in personal relationships.
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Dani Rodrik’s weblog: Globalization anxiety is not just about money
There is plenty of evidence that suggests that people are concerned about globalization not (just) because their pocketbooks are adversely affected but because they do not think its outcomes are right or fair.
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Economist’s View: Levy and Temin: Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America
We argue that the current trend toward greater inequality in America is primarily the result of a change in economic policy that took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Tom Emswiler – Health Care, Toyota Style – washingtonpost.com
A vital Toyota principle is “use only reliable, thoroughly tested technology that serves your people and processes.”
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Rival Hypotheses in the Same Paper? « Organizations and Markets
My colleagues who are more empirically minded than I am tell me of rejections that are motivated solely by having rival hypotheses in the same paper.
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A question of support (The Head Heeb)
a story about what’s wrong with the Israeli government, what’s right about Israeli civil society and courts, and how activism can develop from the most unusual of connections: three factors that, writ large, underlie many of the country’s other responses
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The Economist on Apple’s journey as a lesson to other companies – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Another great lesson the article mentions is an ability to not listen to customers or the market when one’s instincts say otherwise
del.icio.us – links
As you may have discovered, del.icio.us has a handy (well, relatively handy) feature that allows me to have sites, news stories, blog posts and the like that I’ve tagged listed automatically in a daily blog post.
It was a little quirky to set up, but I think it’s a nice and useful feature.
Next batch of links in a few hours time. 
PS: How did I discover it? By following Brad deLong’s blog and wondering how the h%&l he managed to post all those links. You can learn something from economists. 