Why is Starbucks coffee so expensive? How do we get rid of bad traffic? Why do some countries become rich while others remain poor? Tim Harford can find the answer to all of these questions.
Articles tagged with: Globalization
Written By: kiransood on May 28, 2009
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Earlier this week, India unveiled its recent election results which were overwhelmingly in favor of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Singh (center) has worked to allow the country’s leading entrepreneurs to build businesses with little interference from government, with the end goal of creating a free market. (http://newkerala.com)
Written By: kiransood on April 27, 2009
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Companies that deploy 60 percent or more of their R&D outside their home countries tend to outperform their less-global peers, according to a new report by Booz and Co. (bizresearch.com)
BY KIRAN SOOD – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
In today’s ever increasing global world, on any given day you [...]
Written By: Administrator on May 30, 2008
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Don’t play with your food: Are hedge funds to blame for rising food prices?
By Frank Carlson
May 29, 2008
How would you like to earn a million dollars today, just to have it disappear tomorrow? Worse, how would you like it if this happened every day?
That’s exactly what grain elevators are experiencing as record commodity prices [...]
Written By: Administrator on May 17, 2008
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As inflation motors on, can your portfolio keep pace?
by Patrick Temple-West
May 13, 200
Chicago-area investors are looking to shift their portfolios into higher gear—with greater risk—to keep pace with rising inflation.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average are in the red [...]
Written By: Frank Carlson on May 8, 2008
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BY FRANK N. CARLSON – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
Global food prices have been skyrocketing in recent months, with global food commodities 60 percent higher than just two years ago. But can increased demand, driven by developing nations, explain such a meteoric increase? If China has been humming along at [...]
Written By: Administrator on May 3, 2008
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Chicagoans hungry for books about food, publishers happy to serve up more
by Molly Seltzer
Apr 28, 2008
Loaves and popovers grow lofty and puffy because yeast feeds on sugar and releases carbon dioxide. These rising breads are causing something else to rise — the popularity of food books.
In the [...]