26.10.2008
Supplementary material for my review of Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms; Paul Collier: The Bottom Billion; and Dani Rodrik: One Economics, Many Recipes.
22.10.2008
The primary determinants of hotel room rates are location and room size. Of course the more expensive hotels do their best to hide this.
21.10.2008
In its 8 February 2008 issue, the journal Science explored the various ramifications of urban transformation. The different articles provide an excellent introduction to urbanization and the challenges facing the emerging global mega-cities.
19.10.2008
There's nothing unusual about the large swings in share prices of the past few weeks.
The Financial Times Weekend Magazine invited the creators of Logicomix, to do a short tribute to Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Logicomix, a graphic novel about mathematics and logic, is a pure delight.
A Hamlet for the 21st century.
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