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Os países nórdicos voltam a ficar no topo de um ranking de países mais amigos do capitalismo, desta vez do Economist Intelligence Unit

Business environment ranks and scores

 
2008-12
2008-12
2003-07
2003-07
Change in
Change

 
Total score
Rank
Total score
Rank
total score
in rank

Denmark
8.76
1
8.74
2
0.01
1

Finland
8.74
2
8.71
3
0.03
1

Singapore
8.73
3
8.84
1
-0.11
-2

Canada
8.71
4
8.64
5
0.07
1

Switzerland
8.68
5
8.67
4
0.01
-1

Australia
8.65
6
8.20
14
0.45
8

Hong Kong
8.64
7
8.64
7
0.00
0

Netherlands
8.63
8
8.59
8
0.04
0

Sweden
8.63
9
8.34
11
0.29
2

USA
8.60
10
8.64
6
-0.04
-4

Ireland
8.57
11
8.53
9
0.04
-2

UK
8.56
12
8.52
10
0.04
-2

Germany
8.48
13
8.13
15
0.35
2

New Zealand
8.29
14
8.20
13
0.08
-1

Austria
8.26
15
8.00
16
0.26
1

Belgium
8.25
16
8.22
12
0.03
-4

Norway
8.14
17
7.97
17
0.16
0

Taiwan
8.11
18
7.57
22
0.54
4

France
8.03
19
7.89
18
0.14
-1

Chile
8.02
20
7.80
19
0.22
-1

via Will Wilkinson

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Na série nada como o Departamento de Inglês para entreter a malta:

Ms. Venkatesan lectured in freshman composition, intended to introduce undergraduates to the rigors of expository argument. “My students were very bully-ish, very aggressive, and very disrespectful,” she told Tyler Brace of the Dartmouth Review. “They’d argue with your ideas.” This caused “subversiveness,” a principle […]

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Na série já não há direita como antigamente:

Boris Johnson[, the newly-elected Conservative Mayor of London,] has appointed Richard Barnes, an openly gay man “as one of his deputy mayors.”
The New Mayor even plans to attend London’s Pride celebration later this year.
It looks like gay conservatives may have a new hero across the pond, a principled […]

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Na série isto já parece um blogue de mau gosto:

via Andrew Sullivan

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Social psychologist Michelle Hebl … had volunteers evaluate a mock job applicant. Some volunteers saw the applicant sitting in a waiting room next to an overweight person, while others saw the applicant in the waiting room sitting next to a person of average weight. … Hebl found that volunteers rated job applicants more negatively when […]

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All politics stink. Even democracy stinks. Imagine if our clothes were selected by the majority of shoppers, which would be teenage girls. I’d be standing here with my bellybutton exposed. Imagine deciding the dinner menu by family secret ballot. I’ve got three kids and three dogs in my family. We’d be eating Froot Loops and […]

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Escreve Pacheco Pereira num daqueles textos holier-than-thou que de vez em quando faz:

O desemprego pode suscitar mil e uma discussões teóricas, e ser inevitável como “destruição criadora”, como “reconversão” da nossa economia, como efeito de políticas erradas que assentam na ilusão de um “modelo social europeu” insustentável face à natalidade e à globalização, tudo isso.

Admito […]

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Nos EUA, tal como em muitos países da Europa, muitos pais começaram a não vacinar os filhos (eu conheço pelo menos um nessa categoria). Infelizmente, os resultados começam também a aparecer:
From January 1 through April 25, 2008, CDC received a total of 64 reports of confirmed measles cases in nine states — the highest number […]

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Google’s foreign revenues shot head of its U.S. revenues because of a weaker dollar. Google is an exporter. Who knew? And what does Google export? Patterns of electrons.
Alex Tabarrok, no Marginal Revolution

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O PS admite mudar a lei que proíbe a abertura dos supermercados grandes todo o santo domingo.
O dia do trabalhador já não é o que era.

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Woman in crowd: Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person.
Adlai Stevenson: That’s not enough, madam, we need a majority!

Greg Mankiw

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