Technology & Innovation

“Peter Diamond’s Nobel prize in economics is an unusual example of useful economics combined with timely politics.” The Guardian on the would-be government appointee.

Because of their biochemical makeup, women are better than men are at managing risk. As a result, female equity managers yield higher returns for their clients and are better at navigating downturns.

“When you lose your job, social stability is likely to be worse—which threatens democracy and even peace.” The I.M.F. sees no immediate end to the economic crisis.

“Whether on average democracies are more conducive than autocracies to economic growth is far from well established.” Nobel laureate Gary Becker on governments and growth.

“High tariffs and currency wars cost us big in the 1930s. We can avoid making the same mistakes again.” The Wall Street Journal on the history of the tariff.

“The welfare state met its end in Britain this week, when British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne repudiated the concept of the ‘universal benefit.'”

“The first economic analysis of growing genetically modified crops on a wide scale has found that the biggest winners were the farmers who decided not to grow them.”

“The Internet has been lauded by Nobel Peace prize-winning Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo as ‘God’s gift to China’.” Xiaobo says activists can use the Internet to their advantage.

A young violinist was made suicidal because of a critical byproduct of our time: the small inviolate zone of privacy that we all need has now become virtually impossible to maintain.

“A taste of the small-government, anti-spending Tea Party would do a world of good to conservatives in Australia and Europe,” opines columnist Janet Albrechtsen.

Can work make you happy, and—more than that—can work be driven by a higher purpose? While a professional calling or high-profile occupation has long been seen to bring purpose and […]

“The same Washington policymakers who inveigh against the deficit want a strong dollar—clueless about the contradiction.” Dean Baker gives an Economics 101 lesson.

“With interest rates near zero, the US Federal Reserve and other central banks are struggling to remain relevant.” Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz discusses monetary policy.

“Social entrepreneurs are creating multibillion-dollar businesses globally.” Forbes reports on social entrepreneurial projects that turn profits while bridging cultural divides.

“Research suggests that the telecom regulation approach that worked with a few large companies with aligned interests needs revisiting in the Internet age.”

“The fact that government is creating by far the most jobs for young educated workers is a signal of just how weak this recovery has been.”

Financier Steven Rattner saved the U.S. auto industry. Or he didn’t. It depends on whom you ask. But either way, without government intervention last year, Rattner says the auto industry […]

In an exclusive Q&A, a former pimp reveals details about how his business was organized, how much he made, and how he kept a stable of women working for him.

“Can your social network make you healthier? It’s a question that health organizations are asking more and more as part of a wave of new gaming experiments.”

Entrepreneurs should focus on building a brand, conserve cash and take care of their health says business consultant entrepreneur Shaun Rein at Forbes.

“Ever since Europe’s industrial juggernaut grew at a nine percent pace earlier this year—the best in two decades—Americans have looked across the ocean with envy.”

Bolivian President Evo Morales says we are in the midst of a worldwide democratic uprising against imperialism and capitalism. While countries like the United States want to use the International […]

America’s conservative establishment has teamed up to say that the military’s budget is not the place for cutting Big Government glut. Will the tea-party movement listen?

The real cost of cheap pineapples in the UK is carried by Costa Rica, where sprays and pesticides eliminates biodiversity and endanger public health.

“As the top tax rate rises and falls, so do tax avoidance techniques—both legal and illegal. Changes in reported income, therefore, might not reflect changes in actual income.”

“Malcolm Gladwell is wrong about the poor revolutionary power of social networking, as the tweeters in Kashmir show.” The Guardian responds to The New Yorker’s critique of Twitter.

“It turns out that the enemies of free expression are adept at the Internet, too.” The Wall Street Journal reports on totalitarian regimes that restrict cyber-freedom.

“The chief executive of Microsoft is going to the U.K. to explain the multi-billion dollar bet that the world’s biggest software company and a poster boy for corporate America is making.”

“Now that gold has crossed the magic $1,000 barrier, why can’t it increase ten-fold?” Harvard Economics professor Kenneth Rogoff on the world’s most unpredictable precious metal.

“Amish values of hard work, humility, loyalty, and community make for surprisingly—or maybe not-so-surprisingly—successful entrepreneurs.”