What is the actual unemployment rate in the US?
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/02/chart-whats-the-real-unemployment-rate.html
Extent of Jobs Shortfall
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-02/the-u-s-still-needs-2-7-million-jobs
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Clustering and Modern Urban Centers
A fascinating BBC feature on the power of London –
Why do skilled workers cluster in key urban centers?
https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/research-and-data/publications/business-review/2015/q3/brq315_big_cities_and_the_highly_educated.pdfUseful Career Advice for College Graduates
What do Leading Companies Look for in Potential
Employees?
Some interesting insights from Google’s chief recruiter:
“For every job,
though, the No. 1 thing we look for is general cognitive ability, and it’s not
I.Q. It’s learning ability. It’s the ability to process on the fly. It’s the
ability to pull together disparate bits of information.”
Advice from the The
Economist – Get a Master’s degree but don’t waste time on a PhD
http://www.economist.com/node/17723223Olivier Blanchard and the Evolution of Modern Macroeconomics
A profile of outgoing IMF Chief Economist Blanchard (formerly,
Chair of MIT Economics Department) covers a lot of ground:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/the-smartest-economist-youve-never-heard-of/2015/10/02/8659bcf2-6786-11e5-8325-a42b5a459b1e_story.htmlFriday, October 2, 2015
Premature Deindustrialization and Economic Development
Brief note on premature deindustrialization
https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/why-premature-deindustrialization-is-really-bad-news-for-development/
Cheap automation boosts risk of premature
industrialization
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/de07e776-2172-11e5-ab0f-6bb9974f25d0.html
Dani Rodrik interview –
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Behavioral Economics - Theory versus Practice
Putting theory into practice is always tricky -http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/business/behaviorists-show-the-us-how-to-improve-government-operations.html
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