Sunday, February 25, 2007

This and That

London’s congestion charge has taken a wrong turn by John Kay


The Truth About Beauty
by Virginia Postrel

Economic Turbulence

Paul Krugman: Colorless Green Ideas

Four new economics journals, or Devaluing the currency can be a good thing

Supply and Demand for Academic Journals

How to Keep America Competitive- Bill Gates

Job Security, Too, May Have a Happy Medium

Addicted to Spending

Headscarves - they're the new afros

The times they are a-changing for US fundamentalists- Will Hutton

A connected world proves no threat to tyrants

Dear Economist,
My stepfather is an alcoholic and spends his time and money on nothing but self-intoxication. This results in me experiencing great anger and wanting to do something stupidly aggressive.
My mother has less and less money to run the house. I no longer live there but will soon have to contribute money to prevent my mother entering a downward spiral of debt. How do I control an alcoholic who is content only with a bottle in his hand? How do I solve the financial problem? How do I stop myself becoming wound up by my stepfather’s actions?

A Secret History
"For Muslims and non-Muslims alike, the stock image of an Islamic scholar is a gray-bearded man. Women tend to be seen as the subjects of Islamic law rather than its shapers. And while some opportunities for religious education do exist for women — the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo has a women’s college, for example, and there are girls’ madrasas and female study groups in mosques and private homes — cultural barriers prevent most women in the Islamic world from pursuing such studies. Recent findings by a scholar at the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies in Britain, however, may help lower those barriers and challenge prevalent notions of women’s roles within Islamic society. Mohammad Akram Nadwi, a 43-year-old Sunni alim, or religious scholar, has rediscovered a long-lost tradition of Muslim women teaching the Koran, transmitting hadith (deeds and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad) and even making Islamic law as jurists."


Coming Soon: 'The Number 24'

"Two Months Before the Mast of Post-Modernism" Recycled

What Kind of Economy? by James Galbraith

Betting With the House’s Money- Kenneth Rogoff

Inequality and Its Discontents- Robert J. Shiller

The Climate Change Revolution- Jeffrey D. Sachs

The Changing Climate On Climate Change- Joseph E. Stiglitz

Take a Deep Breath- David Warsh

Death and the salesmen

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