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Articles

• The Knowledge Economy/Society: The Latest Example of “Measurement Without Theory”?, Les Oxley, Paul Walker, David Thorns, and Hong Wang
• World Bank: Climate Profiteer, Janet Redman
• Union Decline in Britain, David G. Blanchflower and Alex Bryson
• Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level, Michael Grimm and Stephan Klasen
• Happines and health: two paradoxes, Simone Borghesi and Alessandro Vercelli
• The Economics of Biofuels, Brännlund, Kriström, Lundgren and Marklund
• The Academic Gender Earnings Gap, Carlin, Kidd, Rooney and Denton
• Beyond the business cycle – factors driving aggregate mortality rates, Katja Hanewald
• On Statistical Inference Under Selection Bias, Micha Mandel And Yosef Rinott
• Regional Wage Differentiation and Wage Bargaining Systems in the EU, Athanasios Vamvakidis
• Policies to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) in Tropical Forests, Erin C. Myers
• Political Economics And Normative Analysis, Colin Jennings & Iain Mclean
• Theory of profit from Islamic perspective, Hasan, Zubair

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The Economics Profession

• Economists, Incentives, Judgment, and Empirical Work, David Colander
• Reaching the Top? On Gender Balance in the Economics Profession, Christina Jonung and Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg
• On Gender Balance in the Economics Profession, Ann Mari May
• Mr. Max and the Substantial Errors of Manly Economics, Deirdre McCloskey
• Preferences Underlying Women’s Choices in Academic Economics, John A. Johnson

Economics in the News

• Mainstream Economics and the Environmental Crisis, Scientific American
• The Economist Has No Clothes, Scientific American
• Radical Solutions, The Guardian

The Economy

• The Financial Crisis: An Interview with George Soros
• Economy May Face Prolonged Pain, History Suggests, Wall Street Journal
• Joe Stiglitz on How the Iraq War Is Wrecking the Economy, Foreign Policy
• 8 Steps to a Trillion-Dollar Meltdown, Foreign Policy
• How the Recession Is Being Felt Around the World, Foreign Policy

Food

• The world’s food insecurity, Paul Rogers
• The price of food: ingredients of a global crisis, Heidi Fritschel
• The World Food Crisis: Sources and Solutions, Fred Magdoff
• The New Economics of Hunger, Washington Post
• Running Out of Planet to Exploit, Paul Krugman, New York Times
• Across globe, hunger brings rising anger, International Herald Tribune

Reviews

• The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, by George Soros, reviewed by C.P. Chandrasekhar
• How Rich Countries Got Rich … and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor by Eric S Reinert, reviewed by Rajah Rasiah

Viewpoints

• Reinventing Energy, Jeffrey D. Sachs
• Guns, Drugs, and Financial Markets, Dani Rodrik
• The Moral Vulnerability of Markets, Robert Skidelsky
• Preventing Europe’s Next Banking Crisis, Nicolas Véron

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