Opinion · Economics
Even though Germany privatized Deutsche Telekom in 1996, the federal government retained a substantial ownership stake. This partial state ownership status, which remains to this day, presents a textbook exa...
Read article →I will not double indent, all of what follows is from economic historian Daniel Gallardo Albarrán of the Netherlands: “…you posted a link to an article on how Europe became the world champion of heat deaths. Something...
Read article →A very good book, forthcoming, by Karol J. Borowiecki and Marc Lawx, here is the Amazon link, here is the Princeton University Press page. The post *What Makes a Great Composer?: A Data-Driven Exploration of Music His...
Read article →1. The family keeping watch over a 52-year-old pot of soup (WSJ). I guessed the country wrong. 2. The rise of grocery tourism. 3. PEPFAR interview. Much of this is substantive, and interesting. But s...
Read article →Yes I will be doing a Conversation with him, based around his new book Ausländer: One Family’s Story of Escape and Exile. Mike of course was a pioneering venture capitalist through Sequoia, and before that ...
Read article →To mark what would have been Jim Mirrlees’ 90th birthday on 4 July, Nuffield College (Oxford University) is auctioning off some signed books from Jim’s personal collection and other special items of Jim’s g...
Read article →Even though Mexico is the US’s top trade partner, the fate of the pact underpinning that relationship is uncertain.
Read article →The tightly integrated North American beef market, under pressure from drought and the spread of the screwworm, could get further roiled by trade uncertainty.
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