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Paris School of Economics

Type: Organization

Name: Paris School of Economics

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

University of Adelaide

Coming Event: Free public lecture: The globalisation of inequality

Give this press release a star rating...A free public lecture, The globalisation of inequality, will be held at the University of Adelaide at 5.30pm on Friday 24 May.The lecture is the 2013 Joseph Fisher Public Lecture, hosted by the University of Adelaide's ... [Published NewsMaker - May 17 2013]

Entities: Joseph Fisher, Globalization, Inequality, University of Adelaide

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 2 reports

MGNREGA has led to higher wage rates in rural areas

Source: IRIS (14-MAY-13)Comments | Post CommentWomen and unskilled labourers are the main beneficiaries of the higher wage rates of MGNREGA, which has been revised recently to protect workers against inflation. With effect from Apr. 01, 2013, a maximum ... [Published MyIris - May 14 2013]

Entities: Jean Dreze, Paris School of Economics, Flood Management

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Kenya Creating Digital Employment

Featured Grantee: Digital Divide DataCreated in 2011, Digital Divide Data (DDD) Kenya is based on the belief that the world's poorest citizens can produce their own solutions to poverty with access to the knowledge, skills and opportunities that power ... [Published AllAfrica.com - May 13 2013]

Entities: Kenya, Paris School of Economics, data entry, Sourcing

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 2 reports

France's Next National Sport? Complaining

In Southern Europe, unemployment is rampant. In the north, particularly Germany, the public is grumbling that they are bailing out the fiscally irresponsible. And everywhere on the continent, Europe's vaunted welfare states are under threat.Austerity, ... [Published CNBC - May 03 2013]

Entities: Sadness, France, Emigration, Paris School of Economics, Immigration

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Paris Notebook

In recent months I’ve read at least ten articles about French malaise — all of it apparently due to some mysterious Gallic trait that makes the world’s luckiest people unable to make the best of things. Granted, unemployment is over 10 per cent, the Germans ... [Published Spectator - May 02 2013]

Entities: Paris, André Schiffrin, France

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 1 reports

Michael Bloomberg

Do We Really Want What We Think We Want?

Shutterstock I recently wrote a piece describing the band Tool, arguing that we often prefer our short-term desires at the cost of our true desires. This, of course, is widely known by theologians, psychologists and philosophers. But economists ... [Published The Moderate Voice - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Smoking, Walter Lippmann, Michael Bloomberg

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Barack Obama

Cigarette tax won?t pay for Obama plan

Aside from any other arguments, President Barack Obama?s plan to pay for universal pre-kindergarten for American children by taxing cigarettes shows a fundamental lack of understanding of economics.You can?t pay for something that will only increase in ... [Published Tyler Morning Telegraph - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Taxes, Barack Obama, Smoking, Michael Bloomberg

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

Europe's fight against tax havens still has far to go

Recent tax scandals have portrayed the inefficiency of the European Union to nail down offshore tax-dodgers and the necessity for an automatic exchange of information. For more than two decades, a top French politician was able to quietly stash away hundreds ... [Published Expatica Spain - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Tax-Haven, Tax Fraud, Jérôme Cahuzac

First reported Apr 12 2013 - Updated Apr 12 2013 - 1 reports

President Calls to Double the Federal Taxes on Cigarettes

Present tax on a pack of cigarettes is $1.01 and the President is considering a hike in it by some 94 cents. The move is a part of President's new budget.The revenue generated from the increased tax will be employed to provide funding to the childhood ... [Published French Tribune - Apr 12 2013]

Entities: Taxes, Smoking, Federal

First reported Apr 11 2013 - Updated Apr 11 2013 - 1 reports

Smoking: Weight watchers

“IF IT were totally up to me, I would raise the cigarette tax so high the revenues from it would go to zero,” thundered Michael Bloomberg back in 2002. New York city’s combative mayor has since raised cigarette taxes several times. The effect has been ... [Published The Economist - Finance & Economics - Apr 11 2013]

Entities: Smoking, Michael Bloomberg, Paris School of Economics

First reported Apr 10 2013 - Updated Apr 10 2013 - 1 reports

Europe's fight against tax havens still has far to go

For more than two decades, a top French politician was able to quietly stash away hundreds of thousands of euros into a secret foreign bank account, all thanks to the lack of mechanisms that automatically and systematically help countries detect hidden ... [Published Times of Oman - Apr 10 2013]

Entities: Tax-Haven, Tax Fraud, Jérôme Cahuzac

First reported Apr 03 2013 - Updated Apr 03 2013 - 1 reports

Yrjö Jahnsson Award

David Warsh : ... The Yrjö Jahnsson Award isthe European equivalent of the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every twoyears since 1993 to one or two economists under 45 judged to have madesignificant contributions. Helene Rey ,of the London Business ... [Published Economist's View - Apr 03 2013]

Entities: John Bates Clark, Paris School of Economics, London Business School

Quotes

"There is some ideal that French people have that reality is not living up to" she says, something causing what she describes as "idiosyncratic French unhappiness."

France's Next National Sport? Complaining [Published CNBC - May 03 2013]

Therefore, an administrative request made by France to Switzerland in January failed to detect the account. "This shows that the exchange of information today only works to validate information that you already have" said Mathilde Dupre, a member of the Tax Justice Network which gathers experts and researchers to work against tax avoidance

Europe's fight against tax havens still has far to go [Published Expatica Spain - Apr 17 2013]

"In many poor countries, people are happy with what they have," another added. "We are nay-sayers, chronic complainers. This is not good for morale, for sure."

French are 'taught to be gloomy by their culture' [Published Guardian.co.uk - Mar 24 2013]

...As part of its series on the widening chasm between the super-rich and everyone else titled " Breaking Away ," the Post similarly concluded that "capital gains tax rates benefiting wealthy feed [the] growing gap between rich and poor." As the Post explained, for the very richest Americans, the successive capital gains tax cuts from presidents Clinton (from 28 to 20 percent) and Bush...

Low Capital Gains Tax Rates Fuel Record Income Inequality [Published Crooks and Liars - Feb 23 2013]

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Rising farm wages will lift all boats [Published The Hindu - May 13 2013]
Kenya Creating Digital Employment [Published AllAfrica.com - May 13 2013]
France's Next National Sport? Complaining [Published CNBC - May 03 2013]
Unhappy with your life? You might be French. [Published Christian Science Monitor - May 02 2013]
Paris Notebook [Published Spectator - May 02 2013]
Do We Really Want What We Think We Want? [Published The Moderate Voice - Apr 24 2013]
Cigarette tax won?t pay for Obama plan [Published Tyler Morning Telegraph - Apr 23 2013]
Scam pays wages to dead workers [Published Borneo Bulletin - Apr 20 2013]
Europe's fight against tax havens still has far... [Published Expatica Spain - Apr 17 2013]
President Calls to Double the Federal Taxes on ... [Published French Tribune - Apr 12 2013]
Smoking: Weight watchers [Published The Economist - Finance & Economics - Apr 11 2013]
Europe's fight against tax havens still has far... [Published Times of Oman - Apr 10 2013]
Have Blog, Will Travel: INET Hong Kong [Published Economist's View - Apr 04 2013]
Yrjö Jahnsson Award [Published Economist's View - Apr 03 2013]
Gross National Unhappiness [Published Financial Post \| Opinion » FP Comment - Mar 27 2013]
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Study: Job placement programs don’t work. [Published Ezra Klein - Jan 22 2013]
The high value of water [Published MIT News feed - Jan 14 2013]
You think randomized controlled trials are grea... [Published blogs.worldbank.org - Nov 28 2012]
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Blogs

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Do We Really Want What We Think We Want? [Published The Moderate Voice - Apr 24 2013] Shutterstock I recently wrote a piece describing the band Tool, arguing that we often prefer our short-term desires at the cost of our true desires. This, of course, is widely known by theologians, psychologists and philosophers. But economists ...
Have Blog, Will Travel: INET Hong Kong [Published Economist's View - Apr 04 2013] Here today: Changing of the Guard INET Conference 2013 Hong Kong Thursday, April 4, 2013 12:30 - 14:15OPENING REMARKS Robert Johnson - Executive Director, INETWELCOME REMARKS BY FGI AND INET LEADERSHIP Victor K. Fung - Chairman, Fung ...
Yrjö Jahnsson Award [Published Economist's View - Apr 03 2013] David Warsh : ... The Yrjö Jahnsson Award isthe European equivalent of the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every twoyears since 1993 to one or two economists under 45 judged to have madesignificant contributions. Helene Rey ,of the London Business ...
Gross National Unhappiness [Published Financial Post \| Opinion » FP Comment - Mar 27 2013] Sarkozy favoured ‘happiness’ over markets, then Euromerde hit the fan Something is not right Something is quite wrong Something is not right And so I sing this song. For those unfamiliar with the Madeline series, about the twelve little girls ...
Low Capital Gains Tax Rates Fuel Record Income ... [Published Crooks and Liars - Feb 23 2013] enlarge Credit: Washington Post Last month, an analysis by Berkeley Professor Emmanuel Saez revealed that the top 1 percent of American earners captured all the income gains during the first two years of the current economic recovery while the ...