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’Ciao, il Cavaliere
Something to hang on the toilet wall, Silvio?
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Il cavaliere’s career told through Economist covers – Economist
Further further reading
For the commute home, where your kids are tagging embarrassing pictures of you on Facebook,
- The Economist halts production for a month to let its readers catch up. (Or so says America’s finest news source.)
- The myth of the Fed’s “unprecedented”
The problem with economics
Of all the economic bubbles that have been pricked, few have burst more spectacularly than the reputation of economics itself.
So says the Economist in its exploration of what went wrong with the dismal science and its practitioners, whose pronouncements – in the wake of the ongoing economic crisis – “are viewed with more scepticism than before”.
Who saw it coming and the primacy of accounting
Massive hat tip to Chris Cook for pointing out this fascinating paper.
In it, Dirk J Bezemer of Gronington University attempts to show that certain contrarian economic models — and economists — anticipated the credit crisis and the ensuing recession.
Economist Group considers acquisitions
The Economist Group has the “capacity and appetite” for larger acquisitions, Helen Alexander, its chief executive, said on Wednesday, despite handing back more than £50m to shareholders last year in special and ordinary dividends.
Economist Group on the frontline for Jane’s
The Economist is among the front runners to buy Jane’s Defence Weekly, reports the Daily Telegraph. It is understood that the Economist Group has made it to the second round of the auction for Jane’s Information Group,