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- Government, markets and regulation
- Problems in the housing market in the United States provide some interesting lessons about government regulation in general, lessons that have equal applicability to the intersection between Information Technology and government. by John Carroll
- Tags: Fannie Mae, Economist, Regulation, Freddie Mac, Subsidy, Government, Vertical Industries, Mortgages, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Capital Structures, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?
- If anyone may be deemed the official economist of open source, it's probably Joseph Stiglitz right. Stiglitz, 65, was a co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics for work he did on the impact of asymmetric information. His paper said markets can be...
- Tags: Patent, Economist, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- A look inside 'Gaia Online'
- Gaia Online, a teen-oriented virtual world with 2.5 million monthly participants who engage in more than 100,000 daily transactions, gets a high-profile chief economist. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Economist, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-09-17
- Wandering Economist Podcast Feed (widget)
- Does the World of economics leave you feeling dazed and confused? Wandering Economist Podcast Feed is the business news full of names and terms you don't really understand? Let the wandering economist help you out with simple and entertaining audio clips. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Economist, Podcasts, Internet
- Software downloads 2007-07-27
- Learn how collaboration will fuel success with this FREE Economist report
- The future belongs to those who collaborate effectively, according to "Collaboration: Transforming the Way Business Works," a new study from the Economist Intelligence Unit, available here courtesy of Cisco. This in-depth report, based on extensive surveys and interviews with business leaders, shows that collaboration across departments and among satellite offices,...
- Tags: Collaboration, Economist, Cisco Systems Inc., Satellite, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-05-11
- FREE Economist Report available at the Cisco Collaboration Resource Center
- Future success belongs to those who collaborate effectively, according to "Collaboration: Transforming the Way Business Works," a new study from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Learn how successful collaboration can improve profits, problem-solving, knowledge sharing and competitive differentiation. It's just one of the informative reports you'll find within the Cisco Collaboration...
- Tags: Collaboration, Economist, Cisco Systems Inc., Future Success, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-05-11
- Chart: World's most 'e-ready' countries
- IBM, British magazine The Economist release their annual "e-readiness rankings" of 68 countries, topped by Denmark.
- Tags: ranking, IBM Corp., Denmark, economist
- Image galleries 2006-04-26
- Chart: World's most 'e-ready' countries
- IBM, British magazine The Economist release their annual "e-readiness rankings" of 68 countries, topped by Denmark.
- Tags: ranking, IBM Corp., Denmark, economist
- Image galleries 2006-04-26
- Quality Manufacturing: A Blockbuster Opportunity for Pharmaceuticals
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing is shedding its "Poor cousin" image and gaining in importance relative to R&D and marketing. Decades of regulatory and industry standard practice in manufacturing are being reworked to help push operating efficiency in pharma closer to other "Normal" industries such as semiconductors, industrial chemicals and even consumer packaged...
- Tags: Economist, Blockbuster Inc., Pharmaceutical Company, Manufacturing
- White papers 2005-09-01
- What the boss knows -Misrepresentation and The Economist
- Britain's The Economist is one of the most thoughtful and generally intelligent magazines found on the coffee tables in executive areas. My wife and I subscribe to it mainly for the quality of its writing and the breadth of its coverage - and we look to it for information and...
- Tags: Economist, Intel Corp., software
- Blog posts 2005-07-28
Additional Resources
- Tech giants may face dollar daze
- Tech giants may face dollar dazeMerchants of chaos strike againand they can't resist putting a negative spin on ANY news, even items that are contradictory. So, when the dollar declines, it's bad. When the dollar stops declining, it's bad.Journalists must be some amazingly depressive people to be around.The most important...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Tech Giants
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- DVB-H and government overreach
- DVB-H and government overreachData formats are not part of a business model.They're used by software whose sale generates revenue. Just as the OOXML debate was about market share, so the Microsoft changes in data format were the result of the company's ability to provide unique features the public wanted....
- Tags: Strategy, DVB-H, government, DVB-T, business model
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- Russia as datacenter hub? Not so fast
- Russia apparently could become a datacenter hub. It has hydroelectric power, cold temperatures to keep all those servers cool and a booming economy with lots of engineering talent. But there are enough moving parts to require a little more homework on that Russia as datacenter capital theory. ...
- Tags: Data Center, Russia, British Petroleum Co Plc, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-27
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Google earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak economy
- Updated: Google's second quarter earnings missed Wall Street estimates and executives moved to allay concerns about the company's ability to weather a dicey ad environment. The search giant on Thursday reported net income of $1.25 billion, or $3.92 a share, on revenue of $5.37 billion excluding...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Earnings, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Why tech jobs are beating the employment odds
- Why tech jobs are beating the employment oddsCan somebody tell me whenan economist has ever called it right? Every piece of economic news includes the line "more than" or "less than" what economists predicted.Why do we even listen to these folks?I'd have just put it more brutally...US companies have wanted...
- Tags: employment odd, tech job
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- America's blocked labor policies
- A little known fact about the H-1B work visa program - the special visa used by most foreign technology workers who come to work in the United States - is that fashion models must compete for the same category of visa, a fact about which The Economist reminded me in...
- Tags: John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Would a re-regulated oil market destroy green tech investment?
- Would a re-regulated oil market destroy green tech investment?How do you define a speculator?The problem is not the guys who buy and sell commodities on an ongoing basis, it is the investors who have discovered a new asset class called "natural resources" and who take, and hold long positions betting...
- Tags: Commodity Market, green technology, green tech investment
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Lessons from American university education
- I sometimes "relax" by logging on to PalTalk, a system designed for real-time voice chat, finding rooms where I can debate important issues related to politics or economics. I'm not always successful, as it's surprising how often those forums descend into free-for-alls where individuals take turns at the mic throwing...
- Tags: Education, University, Europe, American University, University Of South Dakota, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- The panelist's nightmare
- The panelist's nightmareTuxedo and brown shoesThat pretty much sucks. What was that old "Lonesome George" Gobel quip to Johnny Carson from years back, after following Bob Hope and Dean Martin on the Tonight Show: "Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a...
- Tags: Federal government, Larry Lessig, FCC, panelist
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
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