Clair Brown is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of "Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science."
Ending ... Vaccine Economics by Kevin Watkins - Project Syndicate
The international response to the COVID-19 pandemic bears a discomfiting resemblance to the British response to the Irish famine.
Consider some recent actions by the European Union.
Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently highlighted the South Africa example as a " shocking symbol " of global vaccine injustice. He was right – but the injustice is global.
El Salvador Officially Adopts Bitcoin. Sound Economics Or Populist Grandstanding? | WLRN
Starting Tuesday, El Salvador officially becomes the world's first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender. But it's far from certain whether the cryptocurrency move is sound economics or grandstanding by a populist president.
The new economics of global cities | The Economist
THE ECONOMIC recovery from the covid-19 pandemic is lopsided in many ways. Vaccinations have allowed some countries to bounce back rapidly, even as others struggle. Demand is surging in some sectors but still looks weak in others. Another big source of unevenness is slowly becoming clear.
Before the pandemic cities seemed invincible, with economic and cultural power becoming ever more concentrated in tiny geographical areas. In 2000 the total daily salary bill for everyone working in inner London was twice what it was in the outer boroughs; by 2019 it was three times as high.
SRCC to organise National Economics Olympiad 2021 : The Tribune India
The Economics Society, Sri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi has invited applications for the National Economics Olympiad (NEO)- a nationwide school level economics olympiad for the students of classes XI and XII.
The preliminary round will have four sections — economic concepts, logical reasoning, case studies, and data interpretation with 10 questions each. Each question accounts for one mark and there will be no negative marking in this round.
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
The Exponential Age will transform economics forever | WIRED UK
IN 2020, AMAZON turned 26 years old. Over the previous quarter of a century, the company had transformed shopping. With retail revenues in excess of $213bn (£150bn), it was larger than Germany's Schwarz Group, America's Costco and every British retailer.
At the heart of its success is a staggering $36 billion research and development budget in 2019, used to develop everything from robots to smart home assistants. This sum leaves other companies – and many governments – behind.
Economics class: Rishi Sunak has strong fiscal cards waiting to be played | Financial Times
Explain how the government borrows when its tax receipts are insufficient to meet its planned expenditures.
Using an AD/AS diagram, analyse the potential impact of pandemic-related economic scarring on the real economy; ie unemployment, economic growth, inflation and trade.
Can Economics Keep Up? | The New Dawn Liberia
NEW YORK – When the sitar maestro Ravi Shankar and Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen received the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, a journalist is said to have asked them, "Between the two of you, who is the more talented?
The story is probably apocryphal. Nonetheless, it highlights a distinctive feature of economics. In many academic disciplines, it is difficult for someone who lacks a reasonable command of the subject to give a lecture without embarrassment, even to a lay audience. Not so with economics.
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