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Giving the green light to suicide
Revelations that non-terminally ill people were euthanised in Switzerland calls into question the ‘right to die’ campaign.
Kevin Yuill,
spiked, 23 June 2009
Innovation and inspiration
A good article by Anjana Ajuha emphasises that innovation in science and technology is by its nature unpredictable. She states that research should not be too narrowly constrained to the supposed needs of the economy.
Rob Killick,
UK after the Recession, 6 May 2009
The Quiet Coup
But these various policies—lightweight regulation, cheap money, the unwritten Chinese-American economic alliance, the promotion of homeownership—had something in common. Even though some are traditionally associated with Democrats and some with Republicans, they
all benefited the financial sector.
Simon Johnson,
The Atlantic, May 2009
Protectionism, global tensions and a new world order?
In the run-up to the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Chinese officials were the preferred target of many Western protestors. This year, by contrast, President Hu Jintao could waft into London for the G20 summit without anyone being ‘kettled’ on his account.
Sean Bell,
Rising East, 15 April 2009
Hope, Greed and Fear: The Psychology behind the Financial Crisis
To explain the current economic crisis, the world of finance has a particular lexicon -- including, for example, credit default swaps, mark-to-market and securitized subprime mortgages. Psychologists, on the other hand, might use very different terms: hope, greed and fear.
Knowledge@Wharton, 15 April 2009
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