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Posted by Jim on 04/11/2009
A first look at Robert Crumb's The Book of Genesis ¦ Books ¦ guardian.co.uk This looks fecking marvellous. (tags: comics) Environmental and Urban Economics: The Future of Research Economics Good economics, says Matthew Kahn, is hard: "The agents we are studying form expectatio ...
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Posted by Jim on 02/11/2009
Economist's View: "Increasing the Social Mix" The implications of school mix, and thereby of housing and planning policy, for social mobility: "the evidence suggests that increasing the social mix within schools may increase performance of disadvantaged students with neutral or in ...
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Posted by Jim on 01/11/2009
Does aid promote economic growth? Owen Abroad A cautious 'yes' (tags: aid growth economics) Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China ¦ ChinaHush Stunning, horrifying photographs of pollution in China and its human effects. (tags: photography environment health regulation china) Supp ...
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Posted by Jim on 31/10/2009
BBC NEWS ¦ UK ¦ Cannabis row drugs adviser sacked As Bernard Manning once said, it's a fucking disgrace. (tags: regulation science) Work does not guarantee a route out of poverty JRF study shows ¦ Joseph Rowntree Foundation If you really want to end child poverty, whack up c ...
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Posted by Jim on 27/10/2009
'Bedroom snooper' row over census - BBC News Nowhere does this story mention that the Census already asks for the number of *rooms* in a property, and that asking how many of these are *bedrooms* is therefore hardly much of a change at all. This is another case of the BBC merrily printi ...
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