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Economics had rethink
since the crisis, but political science sails onwards – Europp
/ LSE
The financial crisis which began in 2007 prompted a number of changes in
academic approaches to economics. As Mick Moran writes, however, political
science has not experienced the same level of introspection, despite the crisis
also offering challenges to the discipline. He argues that the reasons for this
lie in the historical mission of political science and in its established
intellectual practices.
Eight Books that
Changed the Way I Think About the World – CFA
Institute
Interactive Graphic:
The NSA Spying Machine – BB
NSA Book Review:
'Most Germans Don't Share These Concerns' – Spiegel
The head of Germany's agency in charge of counterintelligence reviews
the new book by the reporters behind SPIEGEL's NSA coverage. He says many fears
raised are overplayed, but also warns people need to take greater care with
their data.
The Sherlock Holmes
of Accounting – CFA
Institute
Because of his track record in detecting the manipulation of financial
results, Howard Schilit has been called the Sherlock Holmes of accounting. He
explains the mystery of his art.
Billy Salomon Turns
100 as Flash Trades Replace Handshake – BB
When William “Billy” Salomon started on Wall Street more than 80 years
ago at his family firm, trades were often closed with a gentleman’s clasp. Now,
with computers completing transactions in microseconds, he says the industry is
worse off.
Physicist Who Put
Bang in Cosmos Seeking Other Universes – BB
The inexplicable
prices in hotel minibars around the world – Quartz
At 90, a Brilliant
Mathematician Ponders His Next Challenge – Wired
Freeman Dyson — the world-renowned mathematical physicist who helped
found quantum electrodynamics with the bongo-playing, Nobel Prize-winning
physicist Richard Feynman and others, devised numerous mathematical techniques,
led the team that designed a low-power nuclear reactor that produces medical
isotopes for research hospitals, dreamed of exploring the solar system in
spaceships propelled by nuclear bombs, wrote technical and popular science
books, penned dozens of reviews for The New York Review of Books, and turned 90
in December — is pondering a new math problem.
How Gmail Happened:
The Inside Story of Its Launch 10 Years Ago Today – TIME
Google's email breakthrough was almost three years in the making. But it
wasn't a given that it would reach the public at all
Automated ethics – Aeon
When is it ethical to hand our decisions over to machines? And when is
external automation a step too far?
The Engineering of
the Chain Restaurant Menu – The
Atlantic
At IHOP and Applebee's, menus are sales documents. And navigational
guides. And explainers.
How Twitter Has
Changed Over the Years in 12 Charts – The
Atlantic
Replying is dying, retweeting is up, North America isn't dominant
anymore, but English is, and more lessons from 37 billion tweets.
How the secret police
tracked my childhood – BBC
Fighting the system
used to be dangerous anywhere in Eastern Europe. For one protester from a small
Romanian village it was disastrous - and also for his family, whose every word
was recorded by the secret police. Carmen Bugan, who found the transcript of
her childhood, tells their story.
FINNISH
Minkä
hintojen soisitte nousevan, pääjohtaja Liikanen? – Jan
Hurri / TalSa
Arkielämän alituinen kallistuminen ärsyttää
tavallisia kuolevaisia mutta ei keskuspankkiireja. Heistä hintojen on syytäkin
nousta, jotta "hintavakaus" säilyy ja talous pysyy vauhdissa. EKP
harkitseekin inflaation kiihdyttämistä "kysyntää kannustavaan"
nousuun. Se on jäänyt kertomatta, minkä hintojen olisi hyvä nousta – ja mitä
iloa siitä olisi kansalaisille.
Urpilainen käynnisti kampanjansa pelolla – IS
Sdp:ssä on yksi peikko, jota pelätään vielä
enemmän kuin vuosien ajan laskevaa kannatuskäyrää.
USA: Työllisyys paranee, palkat kurissa – Roger
Wessman
Suomi
maalasi itsensä nurkkaan – Henri
Myllyniemi / US
Juhana Vartiainen: Suomen tupomekanismi on
rikki – SK
Komissaari Olli Rehn lähtee parturin kautta
vaalikentille – HS
"On
monia asioita, jotka eivät ole menneet ihan niin kuin olisi toivonut",
sanoo komissaarin tehtävistä vaalikentille hyppäävä keskustan Olli Rehn
HS-analyysi:
Kremlin haukkoja lietsoo inhorealistinen maailmankuva –
HS