Title: RE: [PEN-L:33540] Re: The ideological implications of Scorcese's latest film
I apologize if I'm reworking old ground. I just saw Gangs, and I avoided all the discussion on this list until I did, to go in with as few expectations as possible.
It's interesting that the review in the NYT
Title: looking for someone to do short term data project
The International Labor Organization is looking for someone with strong data skills to take on a short term (approximately two week) assignment as soon as possible. The task involves improving an extrapolation exercise (187 countries x
Not having had a chance to look at Thaler's book, I can recommend two
general literatures: the discrepancy between willingness to pay (WTP) and
willingness to accept (WTA), and prospect theory, going back to the classic
article by Kahnemann Tversky (1979). In the second case, the undefined
It's possible that the simplest explanation is the correct one: the high
dollar represents a flexing of US political and financial power. From the
standpoint of US-based finance, the high dollar asserts the primacy of the
US as the financial center. In international terms, US financial
Before getting into a discussion over the Marxist utopia, I'd like to
comment a moment on Tom Friedman's utterly demagogic piece in the NYT.
Progressives are opposing the misnamed "African Growth and Opportunity Act"
because it imposes structural adjustment-like conditions on African
countries
