News from 24/01/2009
2009; Gale Group;
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Kenneth Mcleod, Andrew Jackson, Robin Glass, James Gould Professor, Thomas Goreau President, Brent Kious, Konrad Obermann Professor,
ResumoThe Economist HSBC Premier Contents Toyota The world this week Politics Business Accenture Hublot Inside the banks Yes you must The inauguration Peace now? After the Gaza war Mass murder and the market Ex-communist reform Mars rising? Space travel Macquarie Fish stew UK Trade & Investment Science and evolution A healthy argument The philosophy of numbers The not-so-dark continent Economist Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Executive Focus Preferring sacrifice to hope Daily chart Invest in France Agency Other highlights Binge and purge Shorn bank shares, shaven poll ratings, shredded nerves Rescuing banks Selling Scotland by the verse Robert Burns The beast is awake The return of Ken Clarke Bahrain When just one BBC is not enough Public-service broadcasting Carbon Trust Rock or hard place? Private education A new beat The police But does it work? Regulating alternative medicine An unaffordable luxury A time of troubles and protest France To the barricades East European economies And worse to come Spain's new unemployed Autonomy Deaths in Moscow Russian political murders A strange liberal revival Hesse's election Quadro De ReferÊncia EstratÉgico Nacional Iceland hunts the euro And now to work Barack Obama's inauguration Move over, Texas Inaugural balls Bin it Cleaning up afterwards The land of liabilities State pension funds Mutton bustin' and manure Agricultural fairs The call of the mall Segregation and shopping Betrayed by Obama A passport to Utopia Bolivia's new constitution Damage control Economic policy in Mexico The madness of asylum Fugitives from justice in Brazil TAiWAN Wives galore Religion in Canada Now get back to making peace Diplomacy after the Gaza war Back to a kind of life The Gaza Strip Counting the cost Israel after Gaza A real choice for the people Iraq's elections Strong as an ox? China's flagging economy White lies A defence white paper in China Trial and error Political corruption in Taiwan Up in flames South Korea's troubled government The trouble with Harry Thailand's lèse-majesté law Cast adrift Thailand's Burmese boat people The Teaching Company Diplomatic outsourcing India and Pakistan The growing, and mysterious, irrelevance of al-Qaeda Terrorism Who can unite the allies? NATO Fairly happy birthday Development So near, yet so far Public health The New Otani The ties that bind The Wallenbergs An Italian lifeline The car industry Looking Good? LG v Samsung The goodwill, the bad and the ugly Corporate write-downs In pursuit of beauty L'Oréal and Nestlé Lip reading Cosmetics in the downturn Face value The first epistle of St Bill When a flow becomes a flood Another fine mess Global banks Fishy stock Bank capital From torrent to trickle Sovereign-wealth funds Buttonwood Beware of Greeks bearing gilts Early in, early out Japan The money-go-round Depreciating currencies Economics focus The spectre of nationalisation Bend me, shape me, anyway you want me Flexible display screens Mysterious ways Epigenetics Cambridge Judge Business School Indian Railways Seton Hall University Motivating minds Psychology A natural selection Charles Darwin Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England. By Steve Jones. Little, Brown; 320 pages; £20 Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution. By Adrian Desmond and James Moore. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 448 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £25 Bloody history, unhappy future Congo and Rwanda The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa. By René Lemarchand. University of Pennsylvania Press; 328 pages; $59.95 and £39 Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe. By Gérard Prunier. Oxford University Press; 529 pages; $27.95 How to be hated War crimes Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity. By Carla Del Ponte with Chuck Sudetic. Other Press; 448 pages; $25.95 Be bold Profits and charity Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential. By Dan Pallotta. Tufts University Press; 340 pages; $35 Creation and annihilation Theoretical physics The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius. By Graham Farmelo. Faber and Faber; 560 pages; £22.50. To be published in America by Basic in October Underwater treasure Sundance film festival Gaston Lenôtre Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Courses Postgraduate Courses Tenders Appointments Appointments Appointments Appointments Appointments Tenders Business & Personal Tenders Tenders Overview Gold production Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Big Mac index Markets The Institution of Engineering and Technology Dell The Economist Invest Macedonia Also in this section Economist Greed—and fear Barclays Capital Wild-animal spirits Why is finance so unstable? Vestas Chartered Institute of Management Accountants In Plato's cave Mathematical models are a powerful way of predicting financial markets. But they are fallible Emirates When markets turn A parable of how modern finance can go wrong How to play chicken and lose Finance suffers from reverse natural selection EDHEC The uneven contest Financial regulation is essential. That does not make it easy Warwick Business School Swiss: finance: institute Fixing finance The world now has a chance to make finance work better. It should tread carefully Economist Incredible India Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School International Executive Education Institute
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