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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: America's Demography in the New Century (Saturday, 2/1/03)
This 62-page report focuses on economic and political implications of the large aging boomer and immigrant populations. Here's America's Demography in the New Century from the Milken Institute.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Long-Term Care Insurance (Sunday, 2/2/03)
Here's AARP's policy paper on Long-Term Care Insurance: An Assessment of States' Capacity to Review and Regulate Rates.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Berkeley Law & Economics Working Papers (Monday, 2/3/03)
Here's the Fall 2001 edition of the law and economics working papers from the John M. Olin Foundation Program in Law, Economics, and Institutions at the University of California Berkeley Law School.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Children of a Lesser State (Tuesday, 2/4/03)
Children of a Lesser State is a 52-page paper written by University of Toronto law professor Ayelet Schachar on how differing conceptions of citizenship may help perpetuate inequality across nations, and is presented by the Jean Monnet Project at New York University's Law School.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Economics of Tobacco Control (Wednesday, 2/5/03)
The World Bank says that more than 1.1 billion people in the world smoke, and more than 500 million people presently living will die of smoking-related illnesses if governments do not respond to the global tabacco-related health crisis. The Economics of Tobacco Control is a 134-page report from the World Bank.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Knowledge Economy and Postsecondary Education (Thursday, 2/6/03)
Here are the proceedings from a 2001 conference organized by the National Academy of Sciences that focused on America's higher education system in the new economy: The Knowledge Economy and Postsecondary Education.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The University of Wisconsin Center for Women's Health and Women's Health Research (Friday, 2/7/03)
The University of Wisconsin Center for Women's Health and Women's Health Research is one of a dozen such centers across the United States which have been designated by the US Public Health Service.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Australian Bureau of Statistics (Saturday, 2/8/03)
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has lots of numbers, including those representing key aspects of the Australian economy.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Institute for Literacy (Sunday, 2/9/03)
There was a time in America in the not-too-distant past when much of society's work was done with a shovel or a pitchfork by large numbers of people who could neither read nor write. In the new economy, most of the really good jobs go to "knowledge workers" with very high-level skills, meaning that persons who are not literate are left hopelessly behind, often not qualifying even for the few remaining unskilled jobs. The National Institute for Literacy is a federal agency created in 1991 by a bipartisan coalition in Congress.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (Monday, 2/10/03)
Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition examines all aspects of the "Atlantic slave system" that persisted in the Americas for centuries.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Airline Traffic and Urban Economic Development (Tuesday, 2/11/03)
What are the community economic consequences of new airports or expanded airport facilities? University of Illinois Professor Jan Brueckner examines the case of Chicago in his working paper Airline Traffic and Urban Economic Development.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: MIT OpenCourseWare (Wednesday, 2/12/03)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has made extensive course materials available free online at MIT OpenCourseWare.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Workplace Trends & Forecasting (Thursday, 2/13/03)
The Society for Human Resource Management conducts ongoing research, of which its Workplace Trends & Forecasting program is a part.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Global Trends (Friday, 2/14/03)
The World Bank maintains a research team for the purpose of forecasting global economic trends.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Unequal Treatment (Saturday, 2/15/03)
Unequal Treatment is a report on persistent healthcare disparities between minorities and whites in American society.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Financial Statements (Sunday, 2/16/03)
If you're involved in planning or running a business of your own, you may be interested to know that Entrepreneur.com wants to tell you about financial statements.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Board Strategies (Monday, 2/17/03)
If the changed regulatory atmosphere has you reluctant to serve on a corporate board because of liability concerns, Board Strategies may be able to help you with some of the practical questions.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Choosing a Recruiter (Tuesday, 2/18/03)
Business 2.0 passes along a list of Internet resources intending to offer guidance in choosing a recruiter.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Presidents of the United States (Wednesday, 2/19/03)
The White House doesn't want you to forget who its occupants have been since President John Adams first moved in on November 1, 1800. Fifty years can be a very long time in the modern history of world politics, so the institution of the American presidency has exhibited remarkable continuity over more than two centuries, and it isn't because everyone occupying the office has been saintly or a genius. Several American presidents were slaveholders, for instance, and some of them thought the slavery institution was just dandy. Some have been largely incompetent, some corrupt. Andrew Johnson made a number of public appearances while drunk, including during his Vice Presidential inaugural address following the election of 1864.
Compared to some other chief executive roles in democratic countries (e.g., the British Prime Minister), the American presidency is relatively weak, meaning that the American Constitution, both by what it specifies and by what it deliberately leaves unmentioned, has enabled a society in which power is quite widely distributed. During those times when a real clinker has been president, there have been some limits to the damage he could do. On the other hand, when genuinely remarkable individuals have been president, they have been able to accomplish a lot.
From the White House, here is information about all of the Presidents of the United States, not just those who have lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which is to say that George Washington is included.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Migration Information Source (Thursday, 2/20/03)
In part, because global population is so much larger now than it was during earlier periods of migration, the total number of people who are moving from one region to another for their various reasons may be the largest ever. The Migration Information Source from the Migration Policy Institute offers an opportunity to examine global migratory trends every which way, meaning a highly multidimensional analysis.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Your Taxes (Friday, 2/21/03)
As in years past, the New York Times wants to help you with your taxes.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The EROD Directory of Organizations (Saturday, 2/22/03)
The Education Resources Organizations Directory contains information on more than 4,000 national, regional, and state organizations offering information or assistance on education issues and topics. The directory is updated continually.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Behavioral Research Council (Sunday, 2/23/03)
The purpose of conventional economic theory is to sufficiently account for the functioning of economies so as to be able to make more accurate forecasts and recommend policies that will be more influential in producing desired outcomes than would be the case without the theory. Economists have chosen to make use of assumptions and measures that serve these ends.
As a consequence, even though economists know as well as anyone that people don't always behave rationally, the assumption of rationality has been useful in economic theory because it has tended to serve their purposes better than more complex assumptions.
Similarly, while, in principle, psychology is relevant to economics, because it all comes down to the economic behavior or large numbers of people, whether or not it is worthwhile to incorporate behavioral or psychological factors into economic theory depends on the extent to which behavioral processes themselves are well-understood or measurable. Until fairly recently, the consensus among most economists has been that, given the imprecision of psychological knowledge, behavioral factors may as well be ignored in economic models.
However, this has been changing, because psychological science is much more advanced now than it was only a few years ago. Behavioral economics has been coming of age. For instance, here's the Behavioral Research Council, a division of the American Institute for Economic Research.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economic Impact of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack (Monday, 2/24/03)
The General Accounting Office offers a 40-page review of ten reports from nearly as many organizations on the economic impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Big Payoff (Tuesday, 2/25/03)
Based on 2000 Census data, The Big Payoff quantifies the value of higher education when it comes to the cold, hard cash of lifetime earnings potential.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Asian-Nation (Wednesday, 2/26/03)
The Asian-American population has enlarged significantly during recent years, as the United States has become increasingly diverse in many ways. Asian-Nation: The Landscape of Asian America is a gateway created by SUNY sociologist Cuong Nguyen Le.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Food Security and Safety (Thursday, 2/27/03)
Despite its title, this study is not about possible terrorist threats to the U.S. food supply. Instead, the report, published in the U.S. Department of State's journal, Economic Perspectives, deals with food as a basic economic resource and its role in foreign aid programs.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The World's Richest People (Friday, 2/28/03)
Here's Forbes magazine's latest list of the world's billionaires. Bill Gates still tops the list, and Oprah Winfrey has made the list for the first time. Barry Diller is among those who used to be on the list but who is no longer a billionaire. Incidentally, there are "rich" billionaires and "poor" billionaires. Oprah's net worth is now approximately $1 billion, which is how much Bill Gates gives away each year. Here's another view of the latest list.
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