Satyajit Das: The Great Pretender – India’s Economic Past & Future, Part 1: “India Shining”

Source: Naked Capitalism

By Satyajit Das, derivatives expert and the author of Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk (2011). Jointly posted with Roubini Global Economics In the aftermath of the global financial cr ...
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Right to the Olympic Village: a review of David Harvey's 'Rebel Cities', Lewis Beardmore

Source: openDemocracy

Product design, like advertising, is a vainglorious industry. In coming to terms with their professional compromise, the failed writers and artists of the “creative” industries often seek to legitimise their endeavours. Design consult ...
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Does the Indian economy have a 1991 crisis feel?

Source: Economic Times

The steep fall in the rupee to over 55 to the dollar, a current account deficit at 4% of GDP, stalled reforms, weak political leadership, and a limping global economy to boot, no wonder parallels are bein ...
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Joel Slemrod wins the Daniel M. Holland medal

Source: EconJeff

A long pondered but only lately realized blog about economics, politics, evaluation, econometrics, Ann Arbor, academia, college football and whatever else comes to mind. Though you would not know it from the website of the National Tax ...
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Courts are for all of us, not just the rich

Source: The Asheville Citizen-Times

The right of the people not to have their voices drowned in a sea of money took another blow this week when a federal judge threw out part of the landmark state law providing public funding for appellate court elections. U.S. District Court Judge Louis ...
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Rio+20: The Future We Want versus the Powerpoint they negotiate ...

Source: Greenpeace International

Over the last six months I have been away from home a lot watching our governments editing a powerpoint in windowless rooms. Sounds sad, I know, but the document is entitled "The Future We Want" and is not ...
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NIFA: No to Morgan Stanley contract

Source: Merrick Life - L&M Publications

The Nassau Interim Finance Authority (NIFA) rejected Nassau County’s plan to hire Morgan Stanley to broker a deal for a private-public partnership for the county’s sewage treatment system. Last week at a Board of Directors meeting, NIFA voted 5-0 ag ...
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The End of Growth, by Jeff Rubin

Source: Globe and Mail

REVIEWED BY TODD HIRSCH From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published Friday, May. 25, 2012 4:00PM EDT Economic books with apocalyptic-sounding titles are always surefire hits. What is it about human nature that attracts us to tomes abo ...
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Director of Budgeting and Program Analysis

Source: University Business

Working closely with the Vice Provost for Resource Planning and Management (VPRPM), the director of BPA is an active participant in developing campus budget policy. The director provides leadership in budget development, budget ...
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