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The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition

2007-12-22T21:37:00.000+05:30

The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition

Inside BBC Journalism

2007-12-09T12:39:00.000+05:30

Talk to the Newsroom

2007-12-09T12:35:00.000+05:30

Questions and Answers for Times Editors

Leaders' Lessons | Times

2007-11-08T00:32:00.000+05:30

How To Read a Film

2007-11-07T00:32:00.000+05:30

Virtual Economy Home Page

2007-10-31T13:46:00.000+05:30

ThinkEconomics: Introduction

2007-10-31T13:44:00.000+05:30

New Yorker blogs

2007-10-17T23:29:00.000+05:30

A Glossary of Political Economy Terms - Dr. Paul M. Johnson

2007-10-15T22:50:00.000+05:30

Something new under the sun | Economist.com

2007-10-12T00:14:00.000+05:30

Review: Naomi Klein's 'The Shock Doctrine' - International Herald Tribune

2007-10-05T14:14:00.000+05:30

Lectures - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

2007-10-02T10:15:00.000+05:30

NYPL, LIVE from the NYPL, Transcripts

2007-09-28T13:32:00.000+05:30

Rice University Webcasts: Training and Trusting: The Psychology of Performance

2007-09-23T08:55:00.000+05:30

Dr. Jon Maner

2007-09-22T08:26:00.000+05:30

The Sensex story: 1,000 to 16,000!

2007-09-20T05:11:00.000+05:30

Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site - New York Times

2007-09-19T22:03:00.000+05:30

Psychology and Economics: Evidence from the Field

2007-09-18T19:10:00.000+05:30

trackitt: Immigration Trackers for U.S. and Canada: About trackitt

2007-09-18T09:02:00.000+05:30

Arts of Innovation blog

2007-09-16T16:15:00.001+05:30

Arts of Innovation: Types of innovator -- the basics

2007-09-16T16:15:00.000+05:30

The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea

2007-09-14T09:13:00.000+05:30

The Master of Small Things -- Printout -- TIME

2007-09-03T10:49:00.000+05:30

Nailpaul on Narayan

Bloomberg.com: Worldwide

2007-08-30T08:45:00.000+05:30

India's economic growth probably cooled last quarter as the highest interest rates in five years curbed demand for Ford Motor Co. cars and new homes.

ABC News: Who's Counting: John Allen Paulos

2007-08-29T14:51:00.000+05:30

FT.com / Weekend columnists / Tim Harford - Undercover Economist: Price fighters

2007-08-28T20:11:00.000+05:30

"One often hears that during periods of hyperinflation, people switch to barter, trading cigarettes or coffee for other products. That is not quite correct. Instead, during hyperinflations people look for alternative currencies. Cigarettes and coffee are portable and standardised, and so are decent candidates. So while the price of a shirt in terms of Zimbabwean dollars may be hopelessly volatile; the price of a shirt in packets of cigarettes or pounds of coffee is more stable."

NPR : On the Road in China

2007-08-26T20:19:00.000+05:30

Subprime crisis: FAQs

2007-08-14T08:44:00.000+05:30

Indian economic indicators, then and now | Business | Reuters

2007-08-13T08:30:00.000+05:30

The Magic Mountains

2007-08-05T10:21:00.000+05:30

The Magic Mountains
Hill Stations and the British Raj
Dane Kennedy

Historical Economics

2007-08-05T10:17:00.000+05:30

Historical Economics
Art or Science?
Charles P. Kindleberger
Professor of Economics Emeritus, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology

China Reporting

2007-08-05T10:08:00.000+05:30

Dividend Discount Model

2007-08-03T08:04:00.000+05:30

Ajay Shah's blog: Bringing some clarity and consistency to monetary policy?

2007-07-29T10:58:00.000+05:30

Amazon.com: Reporters and reporting: Books

2007-07-26T18:45:00.000+05:30

Writers on Writing

2007-07-26T18:34:00.000+05:30

List: David Remnick

2007-07-25T09:05:00.000+05:30

There are only 12 kinds of ads. Resist them all! - By Seth Stevenson - Slate Magazine

2007-07-25T07:36:00.000+05:30

?My job is to ensure growth remains high? - livemint

2007-07-24T08:51:00.000+05:30

Even as most of the attention in the capital was centred on the ruling United Progressive Alliance’s choice for President, finance minister P. Chidambaram has been focused on the economy, elaborating on a range of topics in multiple conversations with various news media this week.
In a wide-ranging conversation with Shivnath Thukral of NDTV Profit, the finance minister spoke about his views on the challenges of formulating and implementing economic reforms in a coalition environment, the need to deal with agriculture’s slow growth and why the political system is failing to deal with the need for consumers to pay more for food items and about what worries him on the economic front. The finance minister was also pressed on his actions as an insider and how they contrast to his views when he was not part of the government, which were published recently in a compilation, A View from the Outside.

The Numbers Guy : The Numbers Behind Life Expectancy

2007-07-24T08:16:00.000+05:30

Economist's View: "Goodbye to Newspapers?"

2007-07-23T20:03:00.000+05:30

The partition of India | The unruly end of empire | Economist.com

2007-07-20T08:57:00.000+05:30

"Yasmin Khan, a British historian, has written a riveting book on this terrible story. It is unusual for two reasons. It is composed with flair, quite unlike the dense, academic plodding that modern Indian history usually delivers. Second, it turns the spotlight away from the self-posturing in the British viceroy's palace and the well-documented political wrangling between Congress and the Muslim League leaders. Instead, it focuses on a broader canvas that leads the reader through the confusion, the uncertainties, the fear and eventually the horror faced by those who were soon to become citizens of the two new states, India and Pakistan."

The craft of journalism | Dispelling one's own ignorance | Economist.com

2007-07-20T08:50:00.000+05:30

"The life of a journalist such as Kapuscinski consists of untold fruitful deflections. One month he is in India. Then, at the drop of a hat, China is assigned as his patch. He is equally ignorant in both places. But any good journalist, like Herodotus himself, is driven on by an awareness of his own shocking ignorance. And it is that overwhelming need to dispel those clouds of ignorance, to find meaning and pattern amid the world's ceaseless tumult, that drives the serious reporter on."

`The IMF can`t deal with a financial crisis`

2007-07-20T08:33:00.000+05:30

"Bimal Jalan took over as RBI Governor just a few months into the Asian crisis. A decade later, he reflects on the lessons the world has learnt and argues that he would probably have taken similar actions even today, given that, as he says, a financial crisis can bring a country down to its knees within a very short period."

Why we do what we do on eBay | csmonitor.com

2007-07-19T21:11:00.000+05:30

IndianExpress.com :: Is excellent journalism bad for business? Maybe, shouldn’t be

2007-07-19T07:52:00.000+05:30

Wipro Technologies - IT Services, Product Engineering Solutions, Technology Infrastructure Services, Business Process Outsourcing, Consulting Services

2007-07-18T20:46:00.000+05:30

"Jessica: Now you mentioned that in the 1970s when you started focusing on technology, Indian government policy changed and they kicked out IBM. And I don't know if that's the company you were referring to. But it essentially closed the economy, and did not allow foreign investment. When I think of that academically, it has a stigma attached to it when a government does that. Did you think at the time that it was unequivocally positive what the government did?

Azim: I don't think the government kicked out IBM. IBM kicked itself out.

Jessica: How come?

Azim: Well IBM, the government had a policy that they wanted IBM to bring current technology instead of selling computers that they had junked in the rest of the world 10 and 15 years back. They were selling unit record machines in India in 1980. And, I remember we started junking unit record machines at Stanford in the end '60s.

Scrapping them! They were based on cards. Computer cards you have to punch them in. Semi-obsolete machines very early in the game. And two, the government said that you must dilute your stake in this particular area which is of national importance. You cannot have a 100% company. And the government was still willing to give the majority control. And"

NDTV.com: Raining money for Cauvery lawyers

2007-07-18T13:13:00.000+05:30

India Unveiled | Banks replace friends and relatives as source for loans - livemint

2007-07-18T08:45:00.000+05:30

"Banks are beginning to replace friends and relatives, until now the preferred source of small loans in India. This is evident across income groups, with people who earn more being less likely to ask family or friends for loans because they have better access to bank finance. This is one of the findings of the Invest India Incomes and Savings Survey 2007, produced by IIMS Dataworks.
See: Full report"

Islamic bonds to fund Indian dam

2007-07-18T08:42:00.000+05:30

Ajay Shah: India & China - The gap is narrowing

2007-07-18T08:32:00.000+05:30

Mugabe's price cuts bring cheap TVs today, new crisis tomorrow | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

2007-07-17T22:43:00.000+05:30

In Economics Departments, a Growing Will to Debate Fundamental Assumptions - New York Times

2007-07-15T09:52:00.000+05:30

[ EVCA | Publications ]

2007-07-14T23:32:00.000+05:30

Profiles: The Wanderer: The New Yorker

2007-07-14T00:36:00.000+05:30

"Bill Clinton’s quest to save the world, reclaim his legacy-and elect his wife.
by David Remnick"

Annals of Communications: Promises, Promises: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

2007-07-13T23:56:00.000+05:30

"What might the Wall Street Journal become if Rupert Murdoch owned it?
by Ken Auletta"

The Pirates’ Code: The New Yorker

2007-07-10T20:34:00.000+05:30

by James Surowiecki

WhyNot? Idea Exchange

2007-07-10T14:16:00.000+05:30

China's Deadly Goods Wreak Havoc - Newsweek

2007-07-10T08:26:00.000+05:30

Tamil police thinks Boeing 747 costs Rs 1,600 - IBNLive.com

2007-07-09T19:58:00.000+05:30

Robert H. Frank's economic guidebook unlocks everyday design enigmas - International Herald Tribune

2007-07-09T08:34:00.000+05:30

"Have you ever wondered why some cars have fuel fillers on the left, and others on the right? Why your VCR is stuffed with functions that you'll never use? Why women button their clothes from the left, and men from the right? Or why CD cases are smaller than DVD cases when the discs are the same size?"

Google Toolbar Button Gallery

2007-07-08T12:27:00.000+05:30

John Rawls

2007-06-03T09:21:00.000+05:30

Louis Menand on Michael Ondaatje

2007-06-02T23:55:00.000+05:30

The Aesthete, The novel and Michael Ondaatje. by Louis Menand

Ondaatje is an enemy of the linear. He has called his novels “Cubist,” and we are almost commanded not to try to iron out the kinks. It’s not easy to extract a continuous narrative from his books, anyway, because events bounce around chronologically, styles and points of view shift, and there are gaps and stray threads.

Charles Wheelan

2007-06-02T23:31:00.000+05:30

I've never liked how basic economics is taught - too dry, too mathematical, too detached from the real world. So several years ago I set out to write "economics for smart people who never studied economics." That really was our tagline until we realized there were even more people who had studied economics and couldn't remember any of it. Anyway, the end product, Naked Economics, was published in 2003 by W.W. Norton and now appears in seven languages. The Chicago Tribune described the book as "clear, concise, informative and (gasp) witty." Who says it has to be the "dismal science"?

His Yahoo columns here

China's Naked Capitalism

2007-06-02T23:26:00.000+05:30

Read the articles chronicling the adverse impact of China's booming capitalism on conditions ranging from inequality to pollution that earned the Journal a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.

80/20 principle...

2007-06-02T23:23:00.000+05:30

PTI reports

The combined market value of Reliance Industries, ONGC, Bharti Airtel, NTPC and TCS has soared past $210 billion and accounts for more than 20% of the entire $1 trillion wealth of investors across categories. The remaining 80% is spread over 4,800 publicly traded entities.

Actually, 80/.001 principle

Flash Music for Economics

2007-03-01T00:26:00.001+05:30

This website showcases a series of animated Flash files that were created for use in teaching introductory economics. The Flash files are an eclectic mix of music from the last forty years. Each Flash animation includes synchronized lyrics to the song and an economic interpretation of the lyrics. Some of the animations also include pop-ups and visual tricks to enhance the experience.

Some solace at last

2007-02-20T22:51:00.000+05:30

Ian's Shoelace Site

Fun, fashion & science in this quirky site about shoelaces. Whether you want to learn to lace shoes, tie shoelaces, stop shoelaces from coming undone, calculate shoelace lengths or even repair aglets, Ian's Shoelace Site has the answer!

Blogging for Web Sites

2007-02-20T22:48:00.000+05:30

THE JOB: Blogger

THE PAY: Most self-employed bloggers take in between $2,000 and $10,000 a month from ad sales

Is It Love or Mental Illness?

2007-02-20T22:44:00.000+05:30

They're Closer Than You Think
says wsj

Sai Baba and the Quranic Myths

2007-02-20T22:39:00.000+05:30

– Zeba Bashiruddin

Sai Baba and Sufism

2007-02-20T22:33:00.000+05:30

by Prof. ZEBA BASHIRUDDIN

Arundhati returns to fiction after activist decade | Reuters.com

2007-02-13T19:49:00.000+05:30

Should give her another Booker, if she stops writing non-fiction

Green Wombat

2007-02-13T17:12:00.000+05:30

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

2007-02-02T20:06:00.000+05:30

"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. It is currently finalizing its Fourth Assessment Report 'Climate Change 2007'. The reports by the three Working Groups provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the current state of knowledge on climate change. The Synthesis Report integrates the information around six topic areas."

No Satisfaction at Toyota

2007-01-30T08:38:00.000+05:30

Fastcompany writes

What happens every day at Georgetown, and throughout Toyota, is teachable and learnable. But it's not a set of goals, because goals mean there's a finish line, and there is no finish line. It's not something you can implement, because it's not a checklist of improvements. It's a way of looking at the world. You simply can't lose interest in it, shrug, and give up--any more than you can lose interest in your own future.

"People who join Toyota from other companies, it's a big shift for them," says John Shook, a faculty member at the University of Michigan, a former Toyota manufacturing employee and a widely regarded consultant on how to use Toyota's ideas at other companies. "They kind of don't get it for a while." They do what all American managers do--they keep trying to make their management objectives. "They're moving forward, they're improving, and they're looking for a plateau. As long as you're looking for that plateau,it seems like a constant struggle. It's difficult. If you're looking for a plateau, you're going to be frustrated. There is no 'solution.'"

Even working at Toyota, you need that moment of Zen.

"Once you realize that it's the process itself--that you're not seeking a plateau--you can relax. Doing the task and doing the task better become one and the same thing," Shook says. "This is what it means to come to work."

The New York Review of Books: Who Was Milton Friedman?

2007-01-27T15:33:00.000+05:30

In the long run, great men are remembered for their strengths, not their weaknesses, and Milton Friedman was a very great man indeed—a man of intellectual courage who was one of the most important economic thinkers of all time, and possibly the most brilliant communicator of economic ideas to the general public that ever lived. But there's a good case for arguing that Friedmanism, in the end, went too far, both as a doctrine and in its practical applications. When Friedman was beginning his career as a public intellectual, the times were ripe for a counterreformation against Keynesianism and all that went with it. But what the world needs now, I'd argue, is a counter-counterreformation.

Internet pushes the concept of 'free' content, supported by advertising - International Herald Tribune

2007-01-27T12:07:00.000+05:30

After spending millions of dollars over the past decade fighting the free exchange of their products over the Internet, some media companies are now yielding. The best way to get something in return, they are deciding, may be to accept that consumers want to play but few seem to want to pay. If enough of them join the game, there can still be a payback — either from consumers themselves or, increasingly, from advertisers.

Ken Auletta

2007-01-14T09:15:00.000+05:30

New Yorker's Annals of Communications columnist has a website with links to his articles - here

Nitin Nohria | HBS Working Knowledge

2007-01-13T15:02:00.000+05:30

Here

IHT | The Business of Green

2007-01-13T14:55:00.000+05:30

Here

Podcasts from Businessweek

2007-01-13T09:15:00.001+05:30

Here

Podcast | The Welch Way | Jack and Suzy Welch

2007-01-13T09:12:00.000+05:30

Drawing on Jack's experience as the legendary former CEO of General Electric and Suzy's background as the former editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business Review, the pair debate and discuss the issues addressed in their highly popular BusinessWeek column.

Citizen journalism and Reuters

2007-01-01T19:59:00.000+05:30

And you witness news - here

Year in cartoons

2007-01-01T18:41:00.000+05:30

as seen by Americans

Elizabeth Gilbert

2006-12-30T01:26:00.001+05:30

Anil Dash on quotes, headlines and consequences

2006-12-25T15:55:00.000+05:30

How to kill a personality

The Guardian stylebook

2006-12-24T23:13:00.000+05:30

Why hardworking CEOs make dumb decisions

2006-12-21T07:53:00.000+05:30

Because they are hardworking?

Too little sleep is bad, HBR says.

Special report on Games: Forbes

2006-12-17T10:16:00.000+05:30

Limitations of the Economic Way of Thinking

2006-12-17T09:49:00.001+05:30

by Paul Heyne

A brief history of international trade policy

2006-12-16T21:46:00.000+05:30

by Douglas A. Irwin

India’s farmers switch faith to mobile phones

2006-12-14T08:44:00.000+05:30

An old times story, but good.

Super piece on Narayan

2006-12-13T20:19:00.000+05:30

absolutely terrific says abi. i agree

How to think like Warren Buffett

2006-12-13T19:13:00.000+05:30

All i can do is link

Muhammad Yunus

2006-12-13T09:07:00.001+05:30

Nobel lecture

Checking India's vital signs

2006-12-13T08:00:00.000+05:30

from McKinsey

Where's George

2006-12-12T17:35:00.000+05:30

here

Ghetto Capitalism

2006-12-11T13:30:00.000+05:30

If you have read Freakonomics, you are sure to remember Sudhir Venkatesh. Now he has written a new book.
His other books