Archive for September 27th, 2008
links for 2008-09-27
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CEPR – The Reagan Question: Are You Better Off Now Than You Were Eight Years Ago?The table below updates Reagan's question by comparing the state of the economy in 2000 and 2008. We use 25 indicators of economic well-being and economic performance and find that 23 of the 25 indicators are worse in 2008 than they were in 2000. Click here for a list of the sources used.
How to Impress a 16-Year-Old?
No, not in that way. We are talking a different kind of sordid stuff here as it turns out that I’ve managed to completely miss that Austria has extended suffrage to 16- and 17-year olds.
NRC Handelsblad, of all sources, reminded me.
links for 2008-9-24
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Justitsminister Brian Mikkelsen har bedt politiets og anklagemyndighedens ledelse om at udarbejde en samlet redegørelse om politireformen.
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OECD governments spend a lot on education, but are their investments paying off? This column analyses how public policy affects individuals’ decisions to invest in education and identifies opportunities for reform.
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“The one thing that struck me the most was that the value differences were rather small – really, people were more alike than different, in that almost everybody favored intrinsic values more than extrinsic values,” Sheldon said. “It was just a small relative difference between the two parties. Still, these data suggest that economic conservatives have been ‘drafting’ on the values of religious conservatives, using conservative Christians’ willingness to care for less fortunate others as a cover for their own willingness to exploit the situation.”
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Yet a virtually identical pattern is seen across all three surveys: In each case, including cell phone interviews resulted in slightly more support for Obama and slightly less for McCain, a consistent difference of two-to-three points in the margin.
links for 2008-9-23
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The crisis solution depends upon its causes. Here one of the world’s leading international macroeconomists explains how the world got into this mess. This is the ‘Director’s cut’ of his 18 September 2008 column on Project Syndicate.