Transparency International releases "Corruption
Perceptions Index 2004" ranks a record 146 countries where Corruption is
rampant in 60 countries. Most oil-producing nations are prone to high
corruption.My thought of economics as
intermediary science in business school displayed as a diagram (by Effendy Juraimin, May 26,
2003)
Learn the principles of "value-oriented
investment", i.e. the use of fundamentals in guiding the valuation of
securities, from the "Dean of Wall Street" and the mentor of Warren Buffett,
Benjamin Graham.
William Dwyer reviewed Zagros Sadjadi's lecture on "Chinese
Economic Thought Before Adam Smith." He Identified three main schools of
thought: the Legalists, the Taoists, and the Confucians. The Legalists believed
in maximal power to the state. The Taoists favors virtually no state
interference in economy. The Confucians were middle of -the-roaders on this
issue. More..
IMD and World Economic Forum released their latest (2003) World Competitiveness
Yearbook rankings.
Why
cities without "weirdos" are losing the economic development race? Prof.
Richard Florida said, "in order
to have economic growth, you need to be the kind of place that stimulates all
types of creativity. The places that are open to everyone [and] to their weird
and wacky ideas are the ones that are going to prosper." He called his new
economic development model 3Ts: Technology, Talent, and Tolerance.
Overview
the sustainability of
economic recovery process in
Indonesia by
Sri Mulyani Indrawati. (Journal of Asian Economics, Volume 13,
Issue 5 , September-October 2002, Pages 577-596).
U.S. foreign policy strategy shifted from containment to
pre-emptive after September 11, 2001.
Learn the history
of Iraq, from the cradle of civilization to the Gulf War II. View the best
Iraq
map and with
profiles.
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