Economists in love, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers after a Valentine's Day date. Nerida Wolfers/Betsey Setevenson and Justin Wolfers hide caption
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Economics is known as the dismal science and definitely seems miles away from something to consider on this most romantic of days. But one of our favorite economist couples, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, write a Valentine to economics. They say economics has helped them navigate many aspects of their relationship and has helped them make some of their biggest decisions as a couple.
Not to change the topic here:
Farm Economics - News - The Garden City Telegram - Garden City, KS
A Hays, Kansas farmer has declared a moratorium on growing wheat on his more than 4,500 acres of dryland crops. Why? Because it does not make economic sense, he told a crowd of producers who gathered on Feb. 13 at the South Hutchinson Community Center for an event sponsored by Cheney Lake Watershed.
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Custer wanted to end the wind and water erosion on his land. He also wanted to make his farm sustainable and create soil that could store rainwater and not repel it.
Brazil Real to Fall to 4.50 Per Dollar? Capital Economics Thinks So - The New York Times
BRASILIA — Brazil's currency will fall to a new low of 4.50 per dollar this year, Capital Economics forecast on Friday, predicting slower growth, lower interest rates and worse balance of payments dynamics than the current market consensus.
One of the most gloomy outlooks to date for the real, it assumes renewed selling pressure will knock away any support the currency gets from the central bank's intervention in the swaps market this week.
The First Milestone In The History of Economics : Planet Money : NPR
Steven Medema, author of The Economics Book: From Xenophon to Cryptocurrency, 250 Milestones in the History of Economics , reveals the very first of those milestones: Works and Days , an 8th century B.C. poem by Hesiod.
The poem differed from the famous epics of the era, like The Iliad and The Odyssey , by concerning itself with the proper way to manage a household, or an estate. Hesiod and his brother, Perses, had inherited a large estate from their parents, but Perses had squandered his half and was bribing local officials to let him seize Hesiod's share as well.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Market economics has driven universities into crisis – and we're all paying the price | Owen
T he trebling of tuition fees would unleash a new golden age for English universities, or so we were told. They would become financially sustainable, competitive, liberated from stifling bureaucracy and responsive to the needs of students. And yet, nearly a decade later, higher education is in crisis.
"We do know that subjects go in cycles," says Prof Fenton, "so there some courses that aren't trendy now, it's decided they're not economically viable, and you end up with universities without politics or history departments." It's a process encouraged by a wider push to promote Stem subjects – science, technology, engineering and maths – at schools, often to the detriment of creative arts.
ABC Picks Up Pilot 'Home Economics' From Michael Colton, John Aboud – Deadline
Written by Colton and Aboud, Home Economics is about three adult siblings: one in the 1 percent, one middle-class, and one barely holding on.
At ABC, Home Economics joins single-camera comedy pilots Work Wife and Prospect and multi-camera My Village.
The Tannenbaum Co. also produces The Last O.G. for TBS, The Moodys for Fox and Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist for NBC.
Three tips to avoid legal risks with employees | Medical Economics
Proactively managing risk and avoiding harm is almost always cheaper and more predictable than managing any actual crisis.
Asset protection has three layers: a culture of compliance that helps avoid the most common risks; a well-developed insurance program to help cover any mistakes or accidents; and legal tools that separate risks and assets to back up anything not covered by the first two.
In this article we address one of the major risks physicians experience that does not involve patients: Risks from exposures related to your employees.
Lebanon debt plan may need 70% haircut, 50% currency drop, Capital Economics
LONDON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Lebanon’s bond holders may have to write off 70% of their investments and the value of the country’s currency might be cut in half in an International Monetary Fund rescue, analysts at Capital Economics said on Thursday.
Lebanon formally requested the IMF’s technical help on Wednesday as it tries to avoid a full-blown economic collapse. Whether that turns into a formal bailout remains to be seen, but analysts have started to evaluate possibilities.
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