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Research in all fields of economics. (Moderated)
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call for chapters
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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: July 1, 2008 Sustainable Economic Development and the Influence of Information Technologies: Dynamics of Knowledge Society Transformation A book edited by Dr. Muhammed KARATAS, Mugla University, Turkey and Dr. Mustafa Zihni TUNCA, Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey... more »
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Informal labor definition based on ISIC or ISCO codes
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Hi, recently, I stumbled over a definition of informal labor in developing countries based on ISCI or ISCO codes but even after a couple of hours of working I couldn't find it again. Does anyone of you know of such a definition and can point me to it? Many thanks, Bob
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Economic Impact of Tax Holiday
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“I have an idea to help improve the current mortgage market crisis. I believe government should allow a onetime distribution from 401k, traditional IRA, or Roth IRA without tax or penalty as long as the distribution is used to pay down a first mortgage loan balance on the owners' primary residence. Allowing this would add billions of... more »
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The Economist Has No Clothes: Scientific American (Apr 08)
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The Economist Has No Clothes: Scientific American (Apr 08) Discover why it's impossible to solve global environmental problems with existing economic theory. Both these pieces are GREAT!!! Read them both!!! The Economist Has No Clothes Unscientific assumptions in economic theory are undermining efforts to... more »
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Fed facing a 'Money Trap?
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Reading thru this article, how does all this affect the average middle class bozo like myself? [link] Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Fed facing a 'Money Trap' John Maynard Keynes suggested that, when interest rates are very low, monetary policy does not work, there is a so-called "liquidity trap". Speculators anticipate that interest rates will go up and bond and asset prices will fall. Therefore, speculators transform their wealth holdings into the most liquid asset, money (cash), rendering monetary policy ineffective. It is often argued that a liquidity trap occurred during the Great Depression. Between August 1929 and March 1933 the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) increased the monetary base (money in circulation plus bank reserves) by 41% and yet the money supply (M1) decreased by 29% as people started hoarding cash because of bank failures.... more »
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Bragging rights
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Early last year, I predicted a growth in the US economy for the year (in RGDP) of 2.3%. I based this on the consistent dependance of economic growth on the year during the terms of Republican presidents. The prediction was greeted by a good deal of scoffing. The (preliminary) results are in. 2.2% Not bad.... more »
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EISWT-08 Draft paper submission is deadline is just few days from now
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EISWT-08 Draft paper submission is deadline is just few days from now The 2008 International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-08) (website: [link] ) will be held during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions and the deadline is extended until February 19... more »
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optimization theory
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dear all, i have a question rwgarding optimization theory ...is there someone on the group who can help me out ....plzzz reply me soon thanx
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