Men and women in economics have different opinions
Men and women in economics have different opinionsMale economists are both more right-wing and more senior MEN may hail from Mars and women from Venus. But economists, surely, inhabit planet Earth, surveying it dispassionately. Alas, a new paper suggests that even dismal scientists divide on gender lines. Ann Mari May and Mary McGarvey of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and David Kucera of the
China’s audacious and inventive new generation of entrepreneurs
China’s audacious and inventive new generation of entrepreneursIndustries and consumers around the world will soon feel their impact “NEW era, new revolution. I am a MAKER, for the hearts of the dream.” So goes a rallying cry carved in giant letters on the wall of a warehouse in Shekou, a seaside enclave near Hong Kong. Many of China’s most promising entrepreneurs flocked there recently for a conf
Why Cambodia has cosied up to China
“CAMBODIA is a thin piece of ham between two fat pieces of bread,” says a former Cambodian minister, as he stirs a glass of iced coffee. To Cambodia’s west is Thailand, which has more than four times as many people; the two countries have a dormant but unsettled border dispute. To the east is Vietnam, nearly six times as populous, which invaded Cambodia in 1979 and occupied it for ten years. So Ca
Some are more equal than others
Some are more equal than othersHow income inequality in America has changed since 1913 By THE DATA TEAM A NEW paper by Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, and Gabriel Zucman of the London School of Economics suggests that, in America at least, inequality in wealth is approaching record levels. The authors examine the share of total wealth held by the bottom 90% of families rel
A bigger bazooka
A bigger bazookaWeak economic growth has forced the Bank of Japan to expand its programme of quantitative easing THE riposte to doubts about Abenomics, the three-part plan of Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, to shake the country from its economic torpor, is more of the same, and a lot more. On October 31st the Bank of Japan (BoJ) stunned the financial markets by unexpectedly expanding its progr
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WHEN doing business in today's globalised world, we are forever being advised to empathise with others' cultural sensitivities. That is clearly a sound thing, but it can put your head in a spin. Gulliver came across this map, created by Radical Cartography, while browsing the Jaunted website. It shows how many times French people in different regions typically kiss one another when they greet. Soc
The politics of Guantánamo
The politics of GuantánamoThe idea of providing a home to terror suspects sparks a revealing fuss in Kansas IF AN “irresponsible” Barack Obama moves terrorists from Guantánamo Bay to a military prison in Kansas, he would be painting a target on every hospital and school in the area. That is the view of the state’s senior senator, Pat Roberts. “Not on my watch,” Mr Roberts assured supporters huddle
Spin and substance
IN OSAKA’s strongly Korean Tsuruhashi district, a 14-year-old Japanese girl went out into the streets last year calling through a loudspeaker for a massacre of Koreans. In Tokyo’s Shin-Okubo neighbourhood, home to one of the largest concentrations of Koreans in Japan, many people say the level of anti-foreigner vitriol—on the streets and on the internet—is without modern precedent. Racists chant s
Liberty’s enfant terrible
Liberty’s enfant terribleEnrique Zileri, a fighter for press freedom and democracy and against corruption MANY Peruvians looked kindly on the government of Alberto Fujimori, which overcame both hyperinflation and the Maoist terrorists of the Shining Path in the 1990s. But after Mr Fujimori sent troops to close down Congress in 1992, Enrique Zileri, the editor and proprietor of Caretas, the country
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A personal choice
A personal choiceThe internet is making the buying and selling of sex easier and safer. Governments should stop trying to ban it STREET-WALKERS; kerb-crawlers; phone booths plastered with pictures of breasts and buttocks: the sheer seediness of prostitution is just one reason governments have long sought to outlaw it, or corral it in licensed brothels or “tolerance zones”. NIMBYs make common cause
Keeping the peace
Keeping the peaceA quixotic bid to gain a Nobel peace prize for Japan’s pacifist constitution gathers pace, as it faces its gravest challenge yet FOR a document cobbled together during a few hectic days in 1946, in bombed-out Tokyo, Japan’s constitution has weathered the test of time. Written during the American-led occupation, while thousands of starving, war-displaced citizens wandered the capit
Financial crises
Finance is not merely prone to crises, it is shaped by them. Five historical crises show how aspects of today’s financial system originated—and offer lessons for today’s regulators What is mankind’s greatest invention? Ask people this question and they are likely to pick familiar technologies such as printing or electricity. They are unlikely to suggest an innovation that is just as significant: t
Holding back half the nation
Holding back half the nationWomen’s lowly status in the Japanese workplace has barely improved in decades, and the country suffers as a result. Shinzo Abe would like to change that KAREN KAWABATA represents the best of Japan’s intellectual capital. She has just graduated from the University of Tokyo, the most prestigious in the country. Wry and poised, with an American mother and Japanese father,
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