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Will Crowdsourcing Public Opinion Lead to Government Action?

As if in response to yesterday's story about a Princeton scientist's hope to improve government through crowdsourcing, Washington has launched a series of democratic idea incubators that aim to align government action with public ...READ»

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Congress Interested in Google's, and Others' Investment in Chinese Censoring

The Google-China saga took a twist yesterday as Google adjusted how its site works under the Chinese censor rules. And today Congress is getting interested in U.S. roles in Chinese censorship. So is China a no-go or a go-to business ...READ»

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How Everyday Behaviors Can Produce Clean Energy

How to generate energy from sidewalks, roads, railways -- and every breath you take.READ»

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Which Poverty-Fighting Policies Work? J-PAL Has the Answer

A global league of economists called J-PAL is deploying its experimental methods and one all-powerful asset -- data -- to explain human behavior, change how we help the poor, and try to save the world.READ»

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Can Chegg Beat the Kindle at the Textbook Game?

The Kindle may be the king of e-readers, but it has a long way to go before being accepted as an acceptable replacement for textbooks. When Amazon's device was introduced at Princeton for classroom assignments recently, it received ...READ»

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Economics: Economists are Irrational!

I would love to put these economists on the couch and explore what is going on in their heads that enables them to observe the objective reality of the recent economic devastation, yet still hold as sacred their most basic, yet obviously flawed, beliefs about a free-market-driven financial system.READ»

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MoMA Hosts Creative Lock-In to Save New York's Waterfronts

The museum is sponsoring a workshop aiming for new solutions for sheltering the city's threatened waterfront.READ»

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The Argument for Kindles in Schools

Yesterday I wrote about the Kindle's tepid reception on the Princeton campus, and suggested that the device might not be ready for educational use. But pilot programs at other schools, involving both Kindles and iPhones, have ...READ»

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Should Colleges Subsidize Print News, Or Switch to Kindle?

This week Wesleyan University announced that an anonymous donor had given the school $20,000 to subsidize paper New York Times subscriptions for students for the next two years. One hundred and fifty miles away at Princeton ...READ»

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How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education

Free online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks -- American higher education is changing.READ»

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Introducing Guest Blogger Ellen Lupton: Welcoming Design Into Our Daily Lives

When I'm taking a weekend away from work, the last things I usually want to grab for reading materials are the design books sent to me from publishers that march like a Great Wall of Nice Typefaces across my desk. But there was ...READ»

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An Ethics Pledge for MBAs

Lawyers have their oath of attorney, and doctors have that Hippocratic one, but it struck Max Anderson, a Princeton alumnus who today graduates from the Harvard Business School, that MBAs have nothing. And so he and several of his ...READ»

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Percentile Dysfunction, Bat Man, Balancing Act

Very Short List delivers one excellent item to your inbox, daily: Books, films, music, web-things, and dispatches on science and technology. This week, see death-defying stunts, meet a real-life Batman, and read a compelling memoir about American education and ruling class entitlement. READ»

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Kindle 3 Rumors Heat Up: 9.7-Inch Screen, Full Browser

The news about the upcoming Amazon big-screen e-reader is developing fast: Just yesterday we heard it was definitely due, and there's an Amazon press conference scheduled tomorrow. But there's still time for the rumors to develop, ...READ»

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Shawn Baldwin from CMG with Nobel Laureate Dr. Gary S. Becker

Shawn Baldwin from CMG in Chicago with Dr. Gary Becker at the 2009 Milken Global ConferenceREAD»

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Under Pressure; What a Long, Strange Game It Was; Feng Shui Goes Out the Window

Very Short List delivers one excellent item to your inbox, daily: Books, films, music, web-things, and dispatches on science and technology. Today, check out a riveting documentary, see 100 of the world’s smallest apartments, and learn about living longer.READ»

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Prices as Economical Relevant Values to the Profit Equation

Values are not always the same, because they are principally understood intersubjective. Without context, values are neither morally nor valuing. Originally, the term value, which we might understand as an umbrella term with core values, dominant cultures and value codices, can not be a philosophic-theological concept but comes out from the National Economy in Germany. While Aristotle was searching after the eu sän, making one live a good life; there were economists such as Karl Marx and Herbert Spencer asking for the value added of particular cases.READ»

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Does the "who" matter?

When I teach business classes, one of my favorite discussion sessions looks at whether the personal characteristics of the person make a difference when choosing a CEO. I use the example of Avon when they appointed Andrea Jung as ...READ»

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Prosaic Licenses

In a book that I’m presently working on (Your $100,000 Career Plan: Match Your Personality to a Six-Figure Job), I classify a group of occupations under the heading “professional,” and one common characteristic I note among ...READ»

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The Federal Open Market Committee

Do you know who to blame for those crazy-low CD returns? The 10 men and women of the FOMC -- five regional Fed presidents and five Fed governors -- will gather October 28 -- 29 in Washington, D.C., to set monetary policy and consider interest rates. READ»

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Consultant, Heal Thyself

Jon R. Katzenbach and his partners have written books about creating great companies. Now they're trying to build one of their own.READ»

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Inside the Mind of Jeff Bezos

Amazon.com's founder is a study in contradictions -- analytical and intuitive, careful and audacious, playful and determined. What really makes this remarkable entrepreneur tick?READ»

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Parsing Pentagram

One of Pentagram's design partners explores his design philosophy, practice, and process.READ»

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How the President Leads

Princeton professor Fred I. Greenstein has identified six qualities that play a big part in presidential job performance. Here's how leaders outside the political sphere can follow a chief-executive example.READ»