Carnival of the Capitalists
Filed in archive Global Economy by tj on March 14, 2004
After such long waiting I have the opportunity to host this week's edition of Carnival of the Capitalists! I hope you enjoy the following hand selected, outstanding entries in this week's carnival.
(Global) Economy
- Geitner at "Regions of Mind" has little known but very surprising findings about US exports to various regions in the world
- Robert at "Insults Unpunished" supplies good arguments "Why The Third World Needs Capitalism"
- Barry at "The Big Picture" has a detailed analysis which presidential candidate might be the best choice for the markets
Economic Policy
- Don at the "Admiral Quixote's Roundtable" dissects a new study how to best tax cigarettes
and has some surprising findings - Michael Friedman at "Fried Man" presents a new paper about the "The Economics of 'Acting White'" and has fascinating results
- Arnold at the "EconLog" has a fascinating yet short calculation about the employment forecasts for your consideration
- Meanwhile Justene at "Calblog" has another explanation for the jobless growth - incredible productivity
- Prof. Bainbridge at "Professor Bainbridge" argues that regulators have overlooked the larger structural reforms necessary to make independent directors a more effective check on managerialism
- Lynne at "Knowledge Problem" answers a question I was pondering about as well - Why does the transition from winter gas prices to summer gas prices continue to have this price spike, year after year?
- Steve at "Deinonychus antirrhopus" gives us a fascinating intro into the impacts of environmental regulations
- Don at "Catallarchy" argues that money held by the government must be excluded from the effective total money supply
- Zooler at "goobage" tries to find an answer for the question we all have in mind - Why is medical care so expensive?
- David at the "PHOTON COURIER" finds interesting similarities between Seattle and most German towns
Entrepreneurship
- Rob at the "BusinessPundit" has found a great way how to achieve profitable growth - forget homeruns, use small improvements
- Jeremy at "Ensight" also thinks that "Perfection Isn't Perfect" - don't miss his arguments why
- Todd at "A Penny for ..." shares his very insightful experiences about doing business in France
- Anita at "Small Business Trends" has a fascinating piece why starting a business in Japan is not just a risk it's often a risk to life and limb
- Les at "Les Jones Blog" has short on the spot news about ecommerce
- Peter at "Thinking by Peter Davidson" has eight proposals for Starbucks how to enhance their business - he even suggests they should buy meetup.com
- Anita at "The RFID Weblog" gives us enlightment about the RFID Hype Cycle
- Jay at "The Zero Boss" is looking for a working solution to reward blog authors financially
- Your host at "TJ's weblog" analyzes why Reuters and Bloomberg could be running into the Innovators Dilemma soon
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