Jacob Christensen

• Europe’s superstar firms | vox – Research-based policy analysis and commentary from Europe’s leading economists
  The divide between winners and losers from globalisation does not run only between sectors anymore. Increasingly, both winners and losers can also be found within sectors.
  (tags: economics publicpolicy research)
• The Quick and the Ed – Teachers in Need of Improvement
  Since teachers are harder on each other than any principal, he says, having them review each other’s teaching practice, assignments, exams and lesson plans would result in evaluations that “weed out the incompetent while preserving the basic idea of tenur
  (tags: teaching education usa)
• Strobe Talbott: Building a Constructive U.S.-Russian Relationship – Brookings Institution
  (tags: usa russia foreignpolicy)
• Jonathan Cohn – Creative Destruction
  The story of Deep Brain Stimulation actually holds some important lessons about how innovation frequently takes place–and why it’s not all that dependent on a non-universal, private health care system like the one we have in the United States.
  (tags: research publichealth publicpolicy usa)
• The Harvard Crimson :: News :: The Harvard Showroom Is Open
  “I think the economics department likes fairly expensive cars,” Stilgoe says. “They are interested in things that demonstrate financial value.”
  (tags: academic culture journalism humour)
• Crooked Timber » » Introduction: Dani Rodrik Seminar
  Dani Rodrik’s new book, One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions and Economic Growth ( Powells, Amazon ) is a major contribution to debates on globalization, economic development and free trade.
  (tags: economics research globalisation trade academic)
• Lund växer mest i landet – Sverige – Sydsvenskan – Nyheter dygnet runt
  (tags: sweden demography)

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