Abi at Nanopoitan has a series on Leelaavati's Daughters. One of the moving stories Lilavati's Daughters: 2. Dr. Anandibai Joshi .
Pakistan in Peril By William Dalrymple.
Steve Waldman has several links to nationalization (of banks) debates in Nationalize like real capitalists.
A New Meme: Blame It on Beijing (and Seoul, and Riyadh...) and Chinese Growth Plunges from Econbrowser.
How Far Can You Throw an Economist?from Mark Thoma's "Economist's View"
Global imbalances and the Triffin dilemma by John Kemp.
And a favourite topic. In The Last Professor Staney Fish reviews the book The Last Professors:The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities by Frank Donaghue. Discussion at Language Log Pure Fish (link via Abi of Nanopolitan). Strangely nobody mentions William Clark's "Academic Charisma and the origins of the Research University" reviewed in The Nutty Professorsor David Labaree's Understanding the Rise of American Higher Education....
Some speculations about future research by Freeman Dyson and David Brin.
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