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Once Treated With Scorn, Randomised Control Trials Are Coming Of Age
Ten years on, few of those criticisms have stood up to scrutiny. RCTs have entered the mainstream. …
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Syria: Hit Him Hard
From the Pentagon to Britain’s parliament, plenty of realpolitikers argue that doing nothing is the…
The Economist
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Here's Why You Want To Avoid Economists This Christmas
The UK government - See Christmas as a good opportunity for the Queen to educate the masses, but wo…
Matthew Boesler
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Online Video In China: The Chinese Stream
The size and innovation of the Chinese online-video industry may be unique, but its economics are n…
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The 12 Meanest Things Nassim Taleb Has Said About Economists
We pulled a sample of Taleb's best anti-economist quotes from his Facebook and Twitter pages, his p…
Mamta Badkar
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Amartya Sen to Gita Gopinath: Influential Indian-origin economists you should know
Amartya Sen to Gita Gopinath: Influential Indian-origin economists you should know
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Worse Than Europe, Really
But the country's long-term fiscal problem is immense: it taxes like a small-government country but…
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The Most Expensive Cities For Owning A Car
Using data from the Economist Intelligence Unit, the chart below shows the total cost of buying a f…
The Economist
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The Economy Almost Always Does Worse During A President's Second Term
THE economic auguries for Barack Obama’s second term are not good. By comparing the changes across …
The Economist
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Why Traders And Economists Don't Get Each Other On Monetary Policy
These different world views help explain why traders have always been suspicious of quantitative ea…
Steven Perlberg
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This Is The Real Problem With The Economist's Most Influential Economists List
They wrote a hugely influential paper together. They were both implicated in the controversial afte…
Shane Ferro
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The Economist List Of The Most Influential Economists Is A Disaster
The Economist outlines its critera as follows, saying it, "asked Appinions, a startup that analyses…
Myles Udland
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A trip to Mexico is more valuable than even the best book, says a prominent economist
People overinvest in books, but underinvest in travel, economist Tyler Cowen said. He believes it's…
Hillary Hoffower
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The US could plunge into a double-dip recession without timely stimulus, 'Dr. Doom' economist Nouriel Roubini says
"We know we need the stimulus, we know it needs to be large," Roubini said, adding uncertainty arou…
Ben Winck
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CHART: The Deadliest Civil Wars And Armed Conflicts Since World War II
The end of the cold war saw a marked drop in the number of conflicts, matched by a lessening in the…
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THE ECONOMIST EXPLAINS: How Poor Countries Afford Space Programs
From a distance, India's extra-terrestrial ambitions might seem like a waste of money. The country …
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A New Study Shows Huge International Variations In Skills
Well-intentioned plans to boost the brainpower of workforces by pushing more people into universiti…
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The French Increasingly Think Europe Is The Problem, Not The Solution
Security policy aside, France has become, in the words of a European diplomat, "low-ambition" on Eu…
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Why Southern China Is The Best Place In The World For A Hardware Innovator
Whereas Seeed is a Chinese creation,PCH International is a Western take on Shenzhen. Also based in …