Jacob Christensen

What I want to stress is that the New Deal was more than simply a stimulus program to lift the economy out of the depression, it was also a means of dealing with economic and social changes that rendered old forms of social insurance obsolete, and beyond that, it was a means of rebalancing power in society, an important factor that shouldn't be overlooked.

Using a special MRI technique, researchers have determined that the location and degree of airway narrowing in the lungs of asthma sufferers can be markedly persistent over time. The findings will be published in the February issue of Radiology.

Researchers at Clemson University, the University of Virginia and Harvard University have found that, on average, female high school science teachers received lower evaluations than their male counterparts even though male and female teachers are equally effective at preparing their students for college.

Hvis man sænker skatten på kapitalindkomst og dermed reducerer skatteværdien af rentefradraget til f.eks. 25 pct., vil man mærkbart kunne lette skatten på arbejdsindkomst.

Aftale mellem regeringen (Venstre og De Konservative), Socialdemokraterne, Dansk Folkeparti, Socialistisk Folkeparti, Det Radikale Venstre og Liberal Alliance om En grøn trafikpolitik

Gjenreis allmenndannelsen i den høyere utdanningen her i landet! Nå har et stadig mer spesialisert samfunn behov for akademikere som kan tenke langt utover sine egne fag.

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Indlæg ved Europaudvalgets høring om ØMU’en, Landstingssalen, den 22. januar 2009.

Statsminister Anders Fogh Rasmussens indlæg ved åbning af euro-høring på Christiansborg den 22. januar 2009

To cut a long story short: for an Eee, I'd recommend a version of Ubuntu, tailored to support the Eee hardware. Ubuntu is another Debian derivative, but this time vastly smoother and more polished than Xandros — and developing rapidly, with a huge user base and active updates to the latest applications. I'd also recommend the Ubuntu Netbook Remix user interface — an application launcher and desktop that does much the same as the Xandros desktop, but is actually useful. This isn't part of the standard Ubuntu distribution, and for full hardware support on the Eee (for example, to ensure wifi, ethernet, and sound work properly) you'd normally need to install some extra drivers. However, the Eee is so popular that there are a couple of sub-distributions out there especially tailored for it.

These are (in no particular order): EeeBuntu, and Easy Peasy (formerly Ubuntu-Eee)

his column measures the quality of university economics research in Europe and the UK by concentrating on within-journal rankings of influential articles. The UK and Europe are doing relatively well, and top-level research output is not concentrated at half a dozen world-famous institutions. Science-funding policies by European governments should reflect this diversity.

Frozen credit markets prolong the recession and keep us on the edge of financial meltdown. The ineffectiveness of existing policy to kick start credit markets and bank lending is due to investors’ fear of “unknown unknowns”. Ordinary restructuring-and-liquidation recipes won’t work until the government provide insurance against such systemic events. Recent actions by the US and UK get it partially right.

In a pair of Vox columns, one of the world’s most respected macroeconomists suggests that the consensus view of the crisis’s causes and cures is flawed. This first column focuses on the crisis’s deep causes. Global excess demand for safe assets played a role in building the ‘accident waiting’ to happen. Now, investors’ fears of unknown unknowns – Knightian uncertainty – is why the waiting mountains of cash are not acting as “stabilising speculation”.