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Medieval Warfare: Just as Terrifying as You Might Imagine

Medieval Warfare: Just as Terrifying as You Might Imagine

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The Economist: The Lounge Suit, Battle-Dress of the World’s Businessmen, is 150 Years Old – Possibly

This is a totally fascinating history of the suit from the 18th century to today.

How to Fix the Economy: An Expert Panel

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Tom Keene talks with Bob Shiller, Peter Orszag, and other leading economists on how to “get out of this mess”

Author: Tom Keene
Source: Businessweek
Published: Sep 16, 2010
Length: 18 minutes (4,521 words)

Cass Sunstein Wants to Nudge Us

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In “Nudge,” a popular book that he wrote with the influential behavioral economist Richard Thaler, Sunstein elaborated a philosophy called “libertarian paternalism.” Conservative economists have long stressed that because people are rational, the best way for government to serve the public is to guarantee a fair market and to otherwise get out of the way. But in the real world, Sunstein and Thaler argue, people are subject to all sorts of biases and quirks.

Published: May 13, 2010
Length: 17 minutes (4,419 words)

Endless Summers

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Throughout his dazzling but controversial career—top World Bank economist, Treasury secretary, Harvard University president, and now head of the White House National Economic Council—Larry Summers has been his own worst enemy.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Dec 1, 2009
Length: 32 minutes (8,239 words)

The God in the Machine

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President Barack Obama during his first months in office seldom has missed a chance to liken the country’s healthcare system to an unburied corpse, which, if left lying around in the sun by the 111th Congress, threatens to foul the sweet summer air of the American dream. The prognosis doesn’t admit of a second or third opinion. Whether on call to the Democratic left or the Republican right, the attending politicians and consulting economists concur in their assessment of the risk posed by the morbid emissions.

Published: Sep 1, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,919 words)

The Newsweekly’s Last Stand

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Why The Economist is thriving while Time and Newsweek fade

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jul 28, 2009
Length: 8 minutes (2,115 words)

Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability

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Why does Google even need a chief economist? The simplest reason is that the company is an economy unto itself. The ad auction, marinated in that special sauce, is a seething laboratory of fiduciary forensics, with customers ranging from giant multinationals to dorm-room entrepreneurs, all billed by the world’s largest micropayment system.

Source: Wired
Published: May 22, 2009
Length: 15 minutes (3,878 words)