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Here are some new economics titles that have been purchased over the past couple of months. Place your cursor over a book's cover to receive more information. Click on the "Check for availability" link in the note to see a book's status in the Library's online catalog.
Here are some new economics titles that have been purchased over the past couple of months. Place your cursor over a book's cover to receive more information. Click on the "Check for availability" link in the note to see a book's status in the Library's online catalog.
Note that there was a lot of progress under Mao. And this despite a US embargo and the threat of invasion.
April 11, 2014 - WASHINGTON DC. 2014 IMF / World Bank Group Spring Meetings. Economics of Climate Change. orld Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim (left), United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (center); International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde.
Photo: Eugene Salazar / World Bank Group
When you have easy access to junk food then it's easy to be overweight plus you don't have to walk. Find out what % of people are overweight in ND
First, I have downgraded my phone from a blackberry to an iphone. I used to have KEYS and now I have weird auto-correct that clicks and clacks when I hit the glass. Surely I can turn that feature off, right?. Sigh. Yes, I gave in to the man and bought an iphone. /~hangs head~/
So speaking of giving in to the man, let's talk about Occupy Wall Street. As far as I know, it started with Adbusters. When I saw the ad in last summer's issue I ignored it. When I saw it in the Sept/Oct issue I thought about it. Then forgot about it. Apparently it struck a nerve with a few folks. It also seemed an appropriate photo to take as my first hipstamatic-iphone-photo because of the irony.
From : politics.salon.com/2011/10/04/adbusters_occupy_wall_st/si...
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In July Adbusters, a Vancouver-based publication known for its incisive critiques of capitalism, included a poster in that month’s magazine that read simply:
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET
September 17th. Bring tent.
In response to the call, several loose-knit groups of organizers got involved and hundreds of people showed up on Wall Street on Sept. 17. A few weeks later, Occupy Wall Street is now spreading around the country and attracting intense interest from the media.
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Here are some new economics titles that have been purchased over the past couple of months. Place your cursor over a book's cover to receive more information. Click on the "Check for availability" link in the note to see a book's status in the Library's online catalog.
State Library Announces Free Webinar Highlighting SC Economics
COLUMBIA, S.C. – April is Financial Literacy Month and April 5-12 is Money Smart Week. A free webinar is being offered for library staff statewide to discuss the online resources of SC Economics (www.sceconomics.org/) and its vast resources that may assist library staff members create workshops and programming for children, teens and adults. Mr. Jim Morris is the chief executive officer of SC Economics and will be guest presenter.
SC Economics is a non-profit business-education partnership dedicated to providing teachers with continuing education in economics and personal finance. SC Economics was established in 1975 to help ensure that all South Carolina students leave high school with a sound foundation in economic principles, an understanding of our economy and how it works, and a strong appreciation for the American free enterprise system. SC Economics is a program of USC’s Darla Moore School of Business.
SC Economics' mission is to make South Carolina a better place to live by advocating for and ensuring that K-12 teachers are well-prepared to educate and empower South Carolina's youth with economic education and financial literacy.
Money Smart Week® is a public awareness campaign designed to help consumers better manage their personal finances. This is achieved through the collaboration and coordinated effort of hundreds of organizations across the country including businesses, financial institutions, schools, libraries, not-for-profits, government agencies and the media. These groups come together once a year to stress the importance of financial literacy, inform consumers about where they can get help and provide free educational seminars and activities throughout the week. Programming is offered to all demographics and income levels and covers all facets of personal finance from establishing a budget to first time home buying to estate planning. The effort was created by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in 2002. Partnering organizations will host their events April 5 – 12.
When:Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Where:Online at your computer
Cost:Free
How: Register at bit.ly/NfDEst
For more information, please contact Jason Broughton, Outreach Coordinator at 803-734-8576 or jbroughton@statelibrary.sc.gov.
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The South Carolina State Library is the primary administrator of federal and state support for the state’s libraries. The Library is a national model for innovation, collaboration, leadership and effectiveness. The Library’s mission is to optimize South Carolina’s investment in library and information services. In 1969, as the result of action by the General Assembly, the State Library Board was redesignated as the South Carolina State Library and assumed responsibility for public library development, library service for state institutions, service for the blind and physically handicapped, and library service to state government agencies. Headquartered in Columbia, S.C., the Library is funded by the state of South Carolina, by the federal government through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and other sources. For more information, please visit www.statelibrary.sc.gov or call 803-734-8666.
An artists impression of the confusion that reigns when the world comes to help, after a calamity. #philippines
I did a cost benefit analysis and determined the greatest economic surplus came from attending class.
Economics As If Survival Mattered. John Michael Greer takes on economics, a subject in desperate need of his characteristic, level-headed analysis. The usual growth oriented fantastical notions that have plagued the subject over the last half century were in particular need of such cool headed dispatching. Greer starts with the fallacy of the law of supply and demand by handily pointing out that you cannot demand what is simply not there. Uh duh. Our economic system does not inventory the depletion of natural resources and just keeps on assuming that its existence is a given.
In addition, Greer gives us language to explain how the science of economics got so full of itself that it thought it could create its own reality. He divides up the economy into three parts. There's the Primary which encompasses all the planet's natural resources and services, the Secondary which includes the goods made by humans from these resources and the Tertiary which refers to the financial sector. It is this last category that has come to dominate, spinning a web of ever more complex derivative products that have promised the world an endless possibility of wealth pulled from thin air. That is to say, it is based on the promises of wealth from tomorrow's production from resources that likely will not even be there.
Ancient Rome was in much the same financial straights using a debt driven economy that ran aground once actual resources were unable to keep up with demand. In fact it was because of Rome's financial shenanigans that the Christians came up with the part about usury being a sin. I've always wondered why that was so important to the Christians (and Muslims and Jews). In the epoch following the Roman empire, people went back to a life without loans and a lifestyle that didn't revolve around money. Peasants survived on the land they farmed using barter and embraced a feudal lord who offered them protection in exchange for a part of their crops. This was the Middle Ages.
So forget a retirement which is just another construct of the industrial age. Greer is convinced that we are in the twilight of the age of investment. The growth economy simply isn't going to grow anymore to bring in a return. The promise that invested money will outperform the faltering economy of goods and services is simply a publicly accepted fantasy, a faith based system.
Greer ferrets out the last assumption of our flawed economic system, the one my financial advisor holds dear, and that is that the discovery of new technology and new sources of energy will bring back the economy we assume is our birthright. Not going to happen. The energy required to pull this last rabbit out of the hat will be more than the energy we can gain from such efforts Greer says, because there is no resource as dense or as easily brought to market as fossil fuels have been. Same goes for the chimera of a perpetual motion machine because of the law of thermodynamics. Reading his argument makes me feel like a butterfly pinned to a board.
He does have a series of recommendations involving the tax structure and the regulation of corporate activity. I especially like his suggestion that we take corporate personhood to its logical end and serve corporations the death penalty for murder when appropriate. But it is his advice that we follow E.F. Schumacher's small-is-beautiful principle that is the motivating factor for me because it gives me and all the other home tinkerers something to do. Officially termed the Principle of Subsidiary Function this principle puts forth that we use only as much energy as necessary from as local a source as possible to get a job done.
We, who make ourselves intimately acquainted with the amount of energy we need to house and feed ourselves (and provide hot showers and cold beer), are in a far better position to determine what changes we are willing to cultivate in order to insure a palatable future on a diminished energy budget. Because, as Greer points out, the larger economy is only interested in figuring out how to keep the existing system going and this will inevitably lead to collapse of these multi-layered complex systems. Turning away from complexity and investing in far simpler ways of providing for our needs is the solution Greer affords us. Judging from the number of books that blend emergency prep with ongoing sustainable, off-grid living practices, he is not alone in this plan. But rather than rest with the disaster scenario, Greer offers a satisfying exposé of the delusions that have brought us to this disaster prone existence. It is a less anxiety producing approach to know that we must move away from the delusions rather than just be prepared to weather the breakdowns.
I am in ur Marketz. Abusin' externalities.
This is the beginning of something fun I think. More lolonomics to come.
original background photo by flickr user: ZuRe
Tianjin is one of the four municipalities directly under the Central Government of the People's Republic of China, and the second largest port city. On its east is the Bohai Sea, and only 120 kilometers to its west is the capital, Beijing. Tianjin's unique location and the wonderful investing environment attract many world-known multinational corporations, such as Motorola, Coca Cola, LG and Samsung to invest here. Tinajin, this ancient but
modern city is opening its arm to the world vigorously.
Tianjin University of Finance & Economics, founded in 1958, is one of the principal universities of the Tianjin Municipality. The university is proud of abundant professors, scholars and knowledgeable young faculty members who are well-known in the field of business and economics. At the moment, the percentage of professors and associate professors among its faculty has reached 51%. About one hundred members have already received their doctorate degrees. And now there are around 10,000 students on campus.
David Ricardo - Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
edited by R.M. Hartwell
Pelican Classics AC19, 1971
Cover: A detail from 'The Money Changer' by Marinus von Reymerswaele
I've been again pondering The Paradox of Choice and how to model it mathematically.
Yes, I've done this before. This time though I used a different model for the estimated benefit. Before, I used a very simple model and said that the new best option could be 1 better than the old best option. Here, I attempt to model the values of all items with a Gaussian distribution, then calculate the estimated value of the best item. Even though I used the erf function to calculate the probability that we'd see a large value, the graph ended up looking just like my previous one, which used ln as the characteristic function.
Intuitively, as you add more and more choices, the odds are that the best choice won't be much better than when you had just a few choices. However, the cost of evaluating them has gone up. That's the paradox of choice. Our culture puts a great value on choices, shown by the green line going up as choices go up, and that means more choices are more valuable, but eventually the cost of evaluating them all, shown by the red line, overtakes them, and more choices are just not worth the cost of evaluating them.
Mauricio Hernández Ávila, Vice Minister, Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Mexico. Anders Olauson, President at EPF, Brussels and Chairman, The Agrenska Foundation.
OECD Forum, 23 June 2009.
© OECD
2014 HSC First in Course recipient. Presented by Adrian Piccoli MP, NSW Minister for Education. Photo by Anna Warr for the Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards NSW (BOSTES).
Economics students in Coleman Hall on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on June 6, 2012. (Jay Grabiec)
Website: www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Context: Discussion about "The Price is Right" video clip in my Livejournal post yesterday.
Seminar organized by Barcelona GSE Master's students Analía García '19 (ITFD) and Lorena Franco '19 (Economics)
From my 1863 edition of Adam Smith's magnum opus "An Enquiry into the Causes and Wealth of Nations". "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, baker or brewer that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." That quotation for me sums up Classical Liberal Economics, and still holds true, nearly 250 years after it was written.