dia - 15.08.12 10:53 Melbournes Einwohner murren oft über Staus oder lange Wartelisten für Operationen in öffentlichen Krankenhäusern. Aber: Immerhin leben sie in der lebenswerteste Stadt der Welt! Das hat eine Umfrage des Economist Intelligence Unit der Wirtschaftszeitschrift "The Economist" ergeben. mehr bei deutscheinmelbourne.net

worldspy - 11.06.12 21:06 German newspaper Handelsblatt has done its own version of the recent Economist cover demanding that Merkel save the world economy.
It's obvious the Germans are getting increasingly annoyed at the constant prods from the media about how they're letting the world economy go down the tank just because they don't want to create a permanent mechanism... mehr bei businessinsider.com

worldspy - 11.06.12 14:16 Der ehrwürdige britische Economist erklärt die Weltwirtschaft. Das Handelsblatt auch. Wer trifft die Wirklichkeit genauer? mehr bei handelsblatt.com

worldspy - 22.04.12 00:13 Post-Keynesian economist Steve Keen really socked it to Paul Krugman in a presentation this weekend in Scotland.
If you're just joining the battle this is a good, albeit wonky, starting point.
Keen refutes first the idea that the creation of credit necessarily leads to crisis, and second the idea (Krugman's) that banks have nothing to do with the... mehr bei businessinsider.com

worldspy - 18.04.12 10:39 A video animation that serves as a memorable aid to remembering troublesome terms mehr bei blogs.journalism.co.uk

KMR - 31.03.12 19:38 That makes Chinese ideal for micro-blogs, which typically restrict messages to 140 symbols. Though Twitter, with 140m active users the world’s best-known microblogging service, is blocked in China, Sina Weibo, a local variant, has over 250m users. Chinese is so succinct that most messages never reach that limit, says Shuo Tang, who studies social... mehr bei economist.com

KMR - 22.03.12 21:58 However, what they found was that readers were consuming content in completely different ways compared to how they were with the print edition. And it was this key point that played a central theme in Rashbass’s discussion…the tension between the lean-back and lean-forward reading experiences. mehr bei thenextweb.com

KMR - 05.03.12 22:04 The Economist is handing control of its website to its tablet magazines controller, in a bid to unite the previously competitive units.

Oscar Grut, who was formerly digital editions managing director, has been promoted to the new role of managing director for “Economist Digital” as a whole. mehr bei paidcontent.org

worldspy - 28.11.11 19:54 The Economist is slowing but surely making a business out of digital-only subscriptions.
The magazine announced it passed 100,000 paid subs for the first time ever in October.
The figure includes subscriptions across tablet, e-readers, and the web.
That's not a huge number. mehr bei businessinsider.com

worldspy - 24.11.11 21:51 Stark new Economist cover on the fireball that is the Euro zone. … the threat of a disaster does not always stop it from happening. The chances of the euro zone being smashed apart have risen alarmingly, thanks to financial panic, a rapidly weakening economic outlook and pigheaded brinkmanship. The odds of a safe landing [...] mehr bei paul.kedrosky.com