ATAR Notes: Forum
VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => Topic started by: brendan on March 18, 2008, 07:51:31 pm
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Greg Mankiw on free trade
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/business/16view.html?_r=1&ex=1363320000&en=87bab26528ec03d0&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
Greg Mankiw on Bear Stearns bail out
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2008/03/bs-bailout.html
Alan Greenspan on the credit crisis
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/edbdbcf6-f360-11dc-b6bc-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
Alan Blinder on the credit crisis
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/17/AR2008031702152.html
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Reserve Bank of Australia Minutes of the Monetary Policy Meeting of the Board
http://www.rba.gov.au/MonetaryPolicy/RBABoardMinutes/2008/rba_board_min_04032008.html
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three sources of inflation
http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/995
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Former Fed Chairman, Paul Volcker on the credit crisis
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2008/03/18/volcker-feds-extreme-intervention-raises-some-real-questions/?mod=fpa_blogs
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Blame Federal Gov't, Not The Fed, For Subprime Mortgage Problems
EFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL is an assistant professor of economics at San Jose State University.
DAVID R. HENDERSON, a research fellow with the Hoover Institution and an associate professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School, is the editor of The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1502&status=article&id=291507506135021
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Lawrence Summers
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/073802f2-fe6c-11dc-9e04-000077b07658.html
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Students face stress alone
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23467630-12332,00.html
Einsteins in the making
http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/einsteins-in-the-making/2008/03/31/1206850804793.html?page=fullpage
Is the Non-Profit World Teeming With Fraud?
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/is-the-non-profit-world-teeming-with-fraud/
The Immigrant Gap
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120701430488579221.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
A Boy the Bullies Love to Beat Up, Repeatedly
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/24/us/24land.html?ei=5088&en=d6308e4d8eb80498&ex=1364788800&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
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Teacher abuse was factor in death: mum
http://news.theage.com.au/teacher-abuse-was-factor-in-death-mum/20080331-22mm.html
Selective schools: gifted kids' choice
http://www.theage.com.au/news/parenting/selective-schools-gifted-kids-choice/2008/03/31/1206850894178.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
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Do you just have a whole heap of bookmarks on your computer? Where do you find all this info?
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lol i read RSS feeds?
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Did preparation for Earth Hour defeat its purpose?
http://catchwa.org/2008/03/was-earth-hour-a-joke-again/
Two new selective schools to target brightest students
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/two-new-selective-schools-to-target-brightest-students/2008/04/01/1206850910991.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
Business to back internships
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23468673-12332,00.html?from=public_rss
student internships
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23468671-12332,00.html?from=public_rss
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Why Hitler Chose the Jews
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/04/why_hitler_chos.html
Weaning Teenagers Off Gossip, for One Hour at a Time
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/nyregion/27gossip.html?ex=1364961600&en=c3fc57bd7b66acfe&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
How much is an immigrant's life worth, exactly? One-Fifth of an American
http://www.slate.com/id/2168060/
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The Doping Dilemma
Game theory helps to explain the pervasive abuse of drugs in cycling, baseball and other sports
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-doping-dilemma
The Complexities of Cost
http://chronicle.com/review/brainstorm/trachtenberg/universities-are-string-quartets
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A profile of the prominent macroeconomist.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2008/03/people.htm
The Virtues of Small Enterprise
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/04/the_virtues_of.html
School’s New Rule for Pupils in Trouble: No Fun
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/education/04middle.html?ex=1365048000&en=caae1635160c25b4&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Tariffs cost the nation $7.7bn
http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,23480846-462,00.html
The Productivity Commission's Trade & Assistance Review 2006-07
http://www.pc.gov.au/research/annualreportseries/tar0607
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Study Finds Women’s JDs and MBAs Hazardous to Marital Health
http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2008/04/02/study-finds-womens-mbas-hazardous-to-marital-health/?mod=WSJBlog
RBA Governor's Opening Statement to House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics
http://rba.gov.au/Speeches/2008/sp_gov_040408.html
Handsard Transcript
http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/reps/commttee/R10715.pdf
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Three keys to improving our schools by Jennifer Buckingham
http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/three-keys-to-improving-our-schools/2008/04/05/1207249479267.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
The Fed Gets a New Job Description by ROBERT J. SHILLER
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/business/06view.html?_r=2&ex=1365134400&en=a54ef373a2046f2a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Starbucks and 'Laissez Faire' By DAVID BOAZ
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120752454414093553.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
The Colombia Trade Stakes By CONDOLEEZZA RICE
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120752405599893543.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
Note from the dean: Send after U.S. News rankings are published by Gregory M. Stein
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0406rankingsapr06,0,3372512.story
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Unis cater mainly to offspring of wealthy
http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/beducationb-unis-cater-mainly-to-offspring-of-wealthy/2008/04/15/1208025189619.html
Struggling schools in line for help
http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/struggling-schools-in-line-for-help/2008/04/15/1208025189654.html
'Train more graduates, not tradies': uni study
http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/train-more-graduates-not-tradies-uni-study/2008/04/15/1208025195870.html
Enough With the Interest Rate Cuts
By MARTIN FELDSTEIN
Mr. Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Reagan, is a professor at Harvard and a member of The Wall Street Journal's board of contributors.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120822025943314699.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
Congestion taxes
Jeff Zupan is a senior fellow for transportation at the Regional Plan Association — an independent, not-for-profit, regional planning organization which testified to the New York State Assembly in support of congestion pricing.
Todd Litman (founder of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute)
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/what-didnt-we-know-about-congestion-pricing/
Plan to set the price of parking based on market conditions:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/14/MNTO104818.DTL
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Airlines Are Safer Than Ever
By CLIFFORD WINSTON and ROBERT W. CRANDALL
Messrs. Winston and Crandall are senior fellows in the economic studies program of the Brookings Institution. Mr. Winston is the author of "Government Failure Versus Market Failure" (Brookings Institution Press, 2006).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120856322751028003.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
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Children destined to fail without the basics of learning
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23695370-13881,00.html
School result reports backed
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23694593-5017017,00.html
Results back principal's return to instruction
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/results-back-principals-return-to-instruction/2008/05/09/1210131265814.html
THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY: THEN AND NOW
Glenn Stevens, Governor of the RBA
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/files/stevens-15may2008.pdf
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Starbucks and 'Laissez Faire' By DAVID BOAZ
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120752454414093553.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
Hmm could be used as an example of a laissez faire company... busman students! :)